How Did Water Get To Earth?

I read an interesting article about water. (Elizabeth Howell Space.com Contributor; February 2, 2018)

I worked in the scientific community for 22 years and have high respect for scientists. But scientists, even in the same field, don’t always agree with each other, and they have dynamic exchanges of ideas. But they sometimes set facts aside while researching various hypotheses.

That simply means: what is real and understood is temporarily ignored in order to test new ideas. Although this can be beneficial, a problem is created when they set fact aside permanently — such as setting aside God and His creativity and accepting Darwinian Evolution. Evolution basically attests that life evolved from dissolved rocks; but common sense reveals the fallacy of that idea.

Please remember: the concept of evolution is a questionable hypothesis; it is erroneously called a theory; and ignorantly taught as fact. And that is not scientific.

But I am not against research. When God created mankind, He made us to be inquisitive. Proverbs 25:2 says, “It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out.” That’s why people become scientists. They’re doing what God created them to do. The problem is that some people ignore God, deny truth, and come to erroneous conclusions.

Now, how did water get to earth? Let’s not concern ourselves with 4.6 billion, 2 million, or 6,000 years — the question is the same, and Elizabeth Howell and others are trying to figure it out. Let’s help them.

Do rocks such as angrites (basaltic rocks named after the Angra dos Reis meteorite) have water within their crystalline structure? Some do. Also, lava from within the earth should have molecular water within its super-heated mass. But are lava and angrites the source of our oceans, lakes, rivers, and subterranean wells? That presents insurmountable improbabilities; and the answer from my research is “No.”

The author made the affirmative statement, “The team discovered that the parent asteroid of angrites likely had about 20 percent of the Earth’s current water content.” But that is not true. The author should have prefaced her comment with, “We surmise…” Why?

There’s no data on which to make that discovery. They’re guessing. While guessing is the basis of the evolutionary mindset, basing conclusions on guessing is not scientific. It is religious in nature.

So, whether the earth is 4.54 billion years old as some surmise, or 5.9 thousand years old as others surmise, what’s the origin of earth’s water? There’s no need to spend multi-millions of dollars doing extensive research looking into rocks or other improbable ideas. The answer is likely zooming past us, often within sight — comets.

Charles Q. Choi (science journalist in New York) admits the possibility of earth’s water originating from comets which are mostly frozen water.

Astronomers tell us there’s an ocean of comets or icy bodies circling our solar system, and since we know comets have crashed into planets and the sun, logic tells me that large comets also visited the earth. Simple.

As of last year, astrophysicists had catalogued almost 1,000 of what they call “dirty snowballs.” As comets make their trek around the sun hundreds of times, the water and other gases eventually sublimate or boil off, and solid residue is left. The remnants, viewed through our telescopes, might look like asteroids.

But, what’s my point in all of this?

The answers to many of life’s questions are easy to find. Many of the answers are right in front of us — some in Scripture, some in nature. Genesis 1:6 gives a hint of earth’s water origin by saying, “Let there be a space [atmosphere] between the waters, to separate the waters of the heavens from the waters of the earth.” (There are, admittedly, various ways to apply that verse.)

So, as you search for answers in life: don’t ignore the obvious, search Scripture, be observant of others and nature, and God will help you.