• Question: What are your beliefs on the beginning of the world and why?

    Asked by Esme :) to Craig, Flavia, Giuditta, Jack, Sheona on 16 Nov 2015. This question was also asked by Experiment lover45!, jack, Superboy212.
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      Craig Bull answered on 16 Nov 2015:

      I believe there is a vast amount of evidence which support the big band theory and then how the gases formed the planets and then how life in all its formed evolved over billions of years

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      Giuditta Perversi answered on 16 Nov 2015:

      I assume you mean “the world” as “the Earth”, so we more or less know that it was formed by materials that started to orbit around the Sun while it was forming and getting struck together in all the different planets.
      At that point, after the surface cooled down a bit, there was a moment when the atmosphere as we know it started to form, and then oxygen and from that life started to prosper in all the forms that we know now!

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      Sheona Masterton answered on 16 Nov 2015:

      There’s quite a lot of evidence that Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, by bits of gas and dust gradually clumping together because of gravity pulling them together. Earth very very slowly got bigger and bigger, and at some point a massive meteor probably smashed into it, knocking a big chunk off to form the moon. Earth stayed molten for ages though, and eventually cooled off enough to form a solid crust, like the one we see today.

      Life didn’t appear until about 3.8 billion years ago though- we can see evidence of it in the oldest rocks on Earth, and they were very simple organisms at that point. So it took a very, very long time for life to evolve into what we see today!

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