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A Christmas Musing
(Rough draft and notes, still rough, last edited Nov. 19, 2012,
Dates represented as "xxxx", "yyyy" and so forth remain to be pinned down from best current sources and filled in.)
Re-submitted here and now, in rough form, for relevance to the order of events being discussed in the Evolution thread on this forum.
Evolution | Page 8 | BookandReader.com
And this is still the season for it. Comments welcome.
The Creation
[1] In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
The Formation of Heaven and Earth
[6] And God said, "Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters."
[8] And God called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.
[9] And God said, "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear." And it was so.
[14]And God said, "Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to separate the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years,
[16] And God made the two great lights, the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; he made the stars also.
[19] And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.
Beginning of Life on Earth
[20] And God said, "Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the firmament of the heavens."
[23] And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
[24] And God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds." And it was so.
Creation of Man
[26] Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth."
[28] And God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth."
[31] And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
[2:2]And on the seventh day God ended his work which He had made . . . and he rested.
References:
Bible, Revised Standard Version
Dawkins, Richard, "The Ancestor's Tale"
Greene, Brian, "The Fabric of the Cosmos"
Greene, Brian, "The Elegant Universe"
Silk, Joseph, "The Big Bang"
Hawking, Stephen, "The Grand Design"
Hawking, Stephen,
Watson, John, "D.N.A."
(Rough draft and notes, still rough, last edited Nov. 19, 2012,
Dates represented as "xxxx", "yyyy" and so forth remain to be pinned down from best current sources and filled in.)
Re-submitted here and now, in rough form, for relevance to the order of events being discussed in the Evolution thread on this forum.
Evolution | Page 8 | BookandReader.com
And this is still the season for it. Comments welcome.
The Creation
[1] In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Current scientific understanding is that the events leading to the creation of our current universe occurred about 13.75 billion years ago.
[2]The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters.A primordial mixture of all of the constituent matter and energy from which our Universe would soon be created (quarks, gluons, electrons and sub-atomic force carriers) filled space as a very high temperature gas.
Gravitational attraction among the individual masses of these constituents compressed the plasma into a shrinking bubble of growing pressure and temperature, until unimaginable pressures and temperatures were reached and could be contained no longer.
[3] And God said, "Let there be light"Gravitational attraction among the individual masses of these constituents compressed the plasma into a shrinking bubble of growing pressure and temperature, until unimaginable pressures and temperatures were reached and could be contained no longer.
Suddenly the bubble of energy and matter burst out and this fireball inflated faster than the speed of light, growing out to about the size of our current solar system in only about three minutes. The plasma cooled as it inflated and quarks became able to combine into stable protons and neutrons which were then further able to combine with electrons to produce stable atoms of hydrogen and helium (which exist as gas in the galaxy to the current day). The primordial fireball was opaque and brilliant white.
[4] And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness.Beyond 3 minutes, the sudden inflation came to an end and the fireball began to cool more slowly, still continuing to expand but at a slower rate that has continued to the present day.
What a beautiful sight that must have been -- with a dark sky substantially as we now might see it on a clear dark new-moon night -- with intergalactic clouds of debris and hydrogen, nebulae, galaxies, star clusters, and stars in the early stages of their life!
[5] God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.What a beautiful sight that must have been -- with a dark sky substantially as we now might see it on a clear dark new-moon night -- with intergalactic clouds of debris and hydrogen, nebulae, galaxies, star clusters, and stars in the early stages of their life!
The Formation of Heaven and Earth
[6] And God said, "Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters."
[8] And God called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.
[9] And God said, "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear." And it was so.
Earth was formed about xxxx years ago out of accretion of asteroids and debris from a planetary disk surrounding the Sun and subsequent gravitational compaction into a solid mass -- before the creation of sun and moon, out of sequence with the scientific description, we note.
[13]And the evening and the morning were the third day[14]And God said, "Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to separate the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years,
[16] And God made the two great lights, the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; he made the stars also.
[19] And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.
The sun came into being about yyyy years by gravitational condensation of galactic hydrogen into a dense core until sufficient size and internal temperatures were reached to initiate the fusion reaction which to this day is fusing hydrogen into helium (in the manner of a continuing hydrogen bomb).and releasing the heat that we enjoy during the daytime and at the beach on Earth. Parenthetically, it has so far consumed about half of its initial supply of hydrogen fuel and still has about zzzz years to go before the end of its life.
The Moon was born out of a shallow-angle impact between a large meteor and our primordial planet Earth. The meteor sliced of a huge chunk of the Earth's crust and ejected it outward into orbit around the Earth about pppp years ago. Since then gravitational forces have reshaped the moon and Earth back into their very nearly spherical shapes.
The Moon was born out of a shallow-angle impact between a large meteor and our primordial planet Earth. The meteor sliced of a huge chunk of the Earth's crust and ejected it outward into orbit around the Earth about pppp years ago. Since then gravitational forces have reshaped the moon and Earth back into their very nearly spherical shapes.
Beginning of Life on Earth
[20] And God said, "Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the firmament of the heavens."
The earliest pre-planktonic single-celled protozoa formed in the oceans about 3.8 billion years ago
The earliest signs of any life whatever on planet Earth occurred rather soon (in astronomical terms) after the Moon was formed and the Earth and the Moon settled into their current shapes. Bacteria and a certain species of blue-green algae were the first to appear, when the Earth as we know it now was only mmmm years old. The first evidence of genetic material appeared in certain one-celled prganisms after nnnn years more, and eventually (or quickly) DNA-dominated genetic traits appeared in life forms around pppp years ago. By the end of the Cambrian period (in the so-called wwww Explosion of about ttttt years) life inhabited the Earth in a profusion of different species of sea and land creatures, plants and trees.
[22] And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."The earliest signs of any life whatever on planet Earth occurred rather soon (in astronomical terms) after the Moon was formed and the Earth and the Moon settled into their current shapes. Bacteria and a certain species of blue-green algae were the first to appear, when the Earth as we know it now was only mmmm years old. The first evidence of genetic material appeared in certain one-celled prganisms after nnnn years more, and eventually (or quickly) DNA-dominated genetic traits appeared in life forms around pppp years ago. By the end of the Cambrian period (in the so-called wwww Explosion of about ttttt years) life inhabited the Earth in a profusion of different species of sea and land creatures, plants and trees.
[23] And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
Fish and early amphibians appeared about 500 million years ago.
[11] And God said, "Let the earth put forth vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, upon the earth." And it was so.Land plants appeared on earth about 475 million years ago
[13] And there was evening and there was morning, a third day.[24] And God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds." And it was so.
Complex animals appeared about 550 million years ago.
Creation of Man
[26] Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth."
Precursors to mankind appeared on Earth about 400,000 years ago in Africa. In the course of time they separated into a number of species which migrated to different parts of the world and eventually disappeared. About 200,000 years ago the species Homo sapiens appeared in Africa and spread to occupy Africa and Europe, coexisting with the prior Neanderthal species which appeared earlier and had also spread to occupy similar geography. Eventually, about 100,000, years ago the Neanderthals faded from the geologic record, leaving Homo sapiens as the single species which now encompasses all of the varieties of mankind anyplace on Earth. About 30,000 years ago some unknown early artists among mankind painted exquisite outlines of lions and other animals in caves at Chauvet in southern France -- the earliest known cave drawings to date -- and again about 10,000 years ago in the better known caves as Lascaux which show the hunting of bison.
[27] So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.[28] And God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth."
[31] And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
[2:2]And on the seventh day God ended his work which He had made . . . and he rested.
References:
Bible, Revised Standard Version
Dawkins, Richard, "The Ancestor's Tale"
Greene, Brian, "The Fabric of the Cosmos"
Greene, Brian, "The Elegant Universe"
Silk, Joseph, "The Big Bang"
Hawking, Stephen, "The Grand Design"
Hawking, Stephen,
Watson, John, "D.N.A."
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