How the earth was made: Birth of the Earth.s02e03.HDTV.720p

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There's a lot of information in How the Earth Was Made, but perhaps the most interesting relates to time. Quite often, the numbers are so staggering that scientists refer to it as "deep time," an appropriate term when one grapples with the notion that our planet is 4.5 billion years old, or that the oceans were formed by rainfall that lasted literally millions of years, or that 700 million years ago, Earth was completely covered by ice that was a mile thick, with surface temperatures reaching minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit. On the other end of the scale are numbers that seem surprisingly small: for instance, it wasn't until 220 years ago that the accepted church doctrine regarding the planet's age (no more than 6000 years, according to the Bible) was seriously challenged and that the key to its past was found in rocks, not scripture, while the discovery that dinosaurs once ruled the Earth came considerably later than that.

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  • 2 people thought that god made earth

  • @thedonqwet Yes you did.. science class!

  • The question is ...who created god???

  • @abeshbj It's in the title of the video. What else do you need?

  • which episode is this ?

  • also, i do believe that god created the earth but who is to say he didn't do it like this. i do think this is probably the way it happened buy why cant god have done it this way. it doesn't say anywhere that god just snapped his fingers and it was. "he made the heavens and the earth and everything in it in 7 days." this was written along time ago and has been translated over and over again. 7 days could stand for 7 billion years for all we know. in these times, 7 was used as the ultimate number.

  • doesn't make sense. according to this, the earth is around 4.5 billion years old. they also said there was water, in fact oceans at around 4.2 billion years ago. then they said it took billions of years of meteorites hitting the earth to form the oceans. doesn't add up to me. did i miss something?

  • @NowKillYourself That was a pathetic attempt at trolling. Get a life.

  • factual video

    

  • @NowKillYourself

    not true at all

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