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Two Japanese planetary physicists have found more evidence that supports the supernatural design of Earth for life. They discovered that the presence of a large ubiquitous liquid water ocean on the early Earth explains why Earth has fifty times less argon-36 in its atmosphere than does Venus. It also explains how Earth lost nearly its entire primordial atmosphere when another body struck the planet and formed the Moon. Without a large liquid water ocean, the only way the Moon-forming collider would have forced the ejection of Earth’s primordial atmosphere is if the collider hit with enough force to destroy the Earth. However, with a large universal ocean, even a slow collision would have turned the liquid water into super-charged steam. Such steam would have powerfully ejected the atmosphere above into the interplanetary medium. Therefore, the depth of liquid water on the primordial Earth would need to be fine-tuned so both the just-right sized Moon would form and the just-right amount of Earth’s primordial atmosphere would be removed. In addition, the presence of a primordial large universal liquid water ocean is consistent with the Bible’s claim that one of Earth’s initial conditions is that its surface was covered with water.
Hidenori Genda and Yutaka Abe, “Enhanced Atmospheric Loss on Protoplanets at the Giant Impact Phase in the Presence of Oceans,” Nature 433 (2005): 842-44.
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