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It started about 13 billion years ago when the Big Bang set in motion the processes that created all matter. As the sub-atomic particles interacted with each other, some began to form permanent bonds (protons + neutrons) to make atomic nuclei, and these nuclei went on to capture electrons thus forming atoms.
For light elements like hydrogen, this took about 3 minutes. More complex elements came about with the development of stars where the nuclear fusion which fuels stars generated more complex atoms such as oxygen. The formation of stars and galaxies was a much longer process, about 3-4 hundred thousand years.
Once the necessary atoms existed, you get the possibility of chemical reactions among them that generate molecules of all kinds. Water is a molecule which links 2 atoms of hydrogen with one atom of oxygen.
So that, in brief--very, very brief and oversimplified-- is how and when God created water. It all came, as did all other atoms and molecules, from the same initial process.
The physicists and chemists can give much more detail about the processes involved.
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IamAdopted
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Well since God is eternal this is quite a question. Where did anything originate from. We have only known a beginning. We also know there will be an end. With God this is not so.
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People who search extraterrestrial life hold the observation of water as a critical key. The idea is: no water, no life.
My question is: could there be a life form without water? The function of water to life is that it provides a mean of circulation. Could this function be fulfilled by gas or by diffusion in solid?
Must a "life" be defined by being able to reproduce? How about a functional identify that constantly exists? So, the planet Jupiter could be treated as "a life"? The moon is "dead", no function. So the moon is not a life.
The beings in Heaven do not reproduce. According to the definition of life, should we say we will not be a life anymore when we get to the Heaven?
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pastorkevin73
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I like Mallon's first responce. Very funny. lol.
According to Genesis the water was created on the second day.
According to Genesis the water was created on the second day.
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He separated the water on the second day, it was already "created".
Water, just like the dirt does not have a specific day of creation.
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If the life is biological, yes. That is one of the criteria of biological life. So this is a matter of definition: biological life is life that reproduces itself.
Astronomers, on the other hand, sometimes speak of the "life" of a star, meaning the main sequence of a star's existence. But this does not include the concept of reproduction. It is more like the "life" of an article for which you get a "life-time guarantee".
And you raise an interesting point regarding spiritual life. God, obviously, does not reproduce. But would we ever say God--the very source of life--is not alive?
Planets don't constantly exist though. They come into existence with the formation of the solar system they are part of. And I don't know why you would say the moon has no function. It certainly has an effect on tides. On what basis does the moon have less of a function than Jupiter?
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Basically pulling an Obama (Thanks Calminian!)
Even the biological definition of life has to get a bit creative when dealing with worker bees, mules, and well nuns and priests. Not every organism reproduces, it doesn't mean they are not alive.
It seems to me that the definition only describes life forms we have studied. But in the philosophy of science, oh all right, in science fiction, the idea has often come up that the human race, or alien species, could give up the ability to reproduce in exchange for immortality. (You can't have both without eventually hitting a severe population crisis.) The odd thing is we even find this concept in the gospels, that after the resurrection there will be no more 'marrying or giving in marriage'.
Biology does not need reproduction as an attribute of life, just some method of not going extinct once it has been produced, or simply, once the life is here in the first place.
Personally I suspect computer viruses are a life form.
It seems to me that the definition only describes life forms we have studied. But in the philosophy of science, oh all right, in science fiction, the idea has often come up that the human race, or alien species, could give up the ability to reproduce in exchange for immortality. (You can't have both without eventually hitting a severe population crisis.) The odd thing is we even find this concept in the gospels, that after the resurrection there will be no more 'marrying or giving in marriage'.
Biology does not need reproduction as an attribute of life, just some method of not going extinct once it has been produced, or simply, once the life is here in the first place.
Personally I suspect computer viruses are a life form.
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Moon is a big rock. Even it affects earth, but it does not change on itself. The static state is described as dead.
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"In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth,
the earth was a formless wasteland, and darkness covered the abyss, while a mighty wind swept over the waters."
Is there a way to read this, so that the water did not exist before the second day?
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According to Jimmy Sturr, The Polka King, in heaven there is no beer, anyway, so that's why we drink it here.
But, no water?
Ezekial and Revelation talk about the sea being no more and living water flowing through the streets of the new Jerusalem.
To know what will be provided in heaven I think we look to what Jesus survived on when he walked the planet, just more psychadelic. (I am hoping for some funkadelic as well.)
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No go: http://abc.net.au/science/news/space/SpaceRepublish_1607946.htm ... it's methanol. Ethanol in the right amounts just leaves you with a hangover the next day; methanol is highly toxic.
So nopes, no beer in space. Hardly heaven even for the most hardened Australian drunkards around.
So nopes, no beer in space. Hardly heaven even for the most hardened Australian drunkards around.
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