Xref: csiph.com alt.astronomy:279084 rec.arts.sf.written:426553 sci.physics:533218 sci.physics.relativity:370082 Newsgroups: alt.astronomy,rec.arts.sf.written,sci.physics,sci.physics.relativity Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.snarked.org!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!kithrup.com!djheydt From: djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) Subject: Re: Water may have been a part of our planet's history since the beginning. Message-ID: Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2015 05:32:18 GMT References: <5647998F.287C@ix.netcom.com> Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ld. X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Lines: 48 In article , Robert Bannister wrote: >On 15/11/2015 4:29 AM, The Starmaker wrote: >> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/earths-water-old_56460271e4b08cda348867ea >> >> "An international team of scientists has found new evidence that >> water may have been a fundamental part of Earth since its beginning >> some 4.5 billion years ago." >> >> >> "..water has been on Earth since its formation -- and new research >> indicates they might be right." >> >> >> >> These science guys find themselves always going back to... >> >> >> 'In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the >> earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the >> deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.' >> >> >> Maybe they should be investigating where those words come from. >> >They were written by men with strange beliefs. Perhaps they'd been >drinking too many spirits at night without water. Did they have any way of making spirits? Since they didn't have *any* access to freeze-distillation, they would have had to invent standard distillation with heat and a condenser, like Martin Padway in the sixth century. Did they? G. K. Chesterton says somewhere that compared to the other creation myths we find hanging about, with dragons to be slain and giants to be dissected *before* the earth is created, Genesis 1 sounds a lot more reasonable. To say nothing of the not-standard Hindu creation myth in which the earth is created out of butter churned out of a huge sea of milk, and the Finnish one in which a sky goddess, being lonely, falls into the sea, where she drifts around still beling lonely for centuries until she lays some eggs which become the continents. -- Dorothy J. Heydt Vallejo, California djheydt at gmail dot com