Thread:SouthWriter/@comment-5018798-20130812104509/@comment-1777104-20130829033155

The "talk" page format (that which is available in a separate tab) somehow alludes me on this wiki. I was able to set it up on the home page, but elsewhere I am stuck with "comments" at the bottom of the page. This discussion might be more effective at the bottom of the "Creation" page, but I will continue here because it is more like a "private" conversation.

I realize that I was throwing scientific theory at you pretty hard. I am sorry if I confused you. My idea is that God indeed started everything "in one place" and then put stuff elsewhere. This does not mean He used the "big bang" (which denies the "laws of physics), but does imply a possible "big crunch" if left unattended. Based only on the visible universe, the mass of crunched matter-energy (down to neutrons), would be a sphere about 1.5 light years across.  That, though, would not look like "water," so I discount that as a possible "what" of the "creation moment.

What was "formless and empty" becomes "the deep," which is then said to be surrounded by the Spirit over "the waters." Those are the facts according to the Word of God. Now, what is the evidence from observing creation? Free gases tend to spread out into formless masses, and pure hydrogen, for example, would be empty of anything else but hydrogen -- formless and void. Scattering everywhere, it would be utter chaos. It needed the "hand" of God to form it into anything. The word picture is more like the "wings" of God, for He "hovered" over the mass.

Once contained, the gas - be it organized hydrogen or loose particles, would compress on its own by the law of gravity. Soon hydrogen would fuse into the first eight elements. Amazingly, those elements are found in our oceans as air dissolved in water (H2O, N, O, CO2, He). The other three elements (Li, Be, and B) have excellent properties for dispersing electrons (ions) in the further creation of the universe after LIGHT is introduced (Gen. 1:3). Light is, of course, mid spectrum electromagnetic energy.

I'll jump now to your questions concerning a "possible line of reasoning" for the rest of creation.