The world was created by a long process beginning with the collapse of a huge molecular cloud under the influence of gravity. Most of the mass collected to form the sun, with a disk of material (the protoplanetary disk) spread out around the newly formed star. Further "ordering" under gravimetric influence produced "centers of accretion" where enough material gathered to form the planets. All of these facts can be checked by using the link below and then following the many links there. Though there is no proof that God created the world, there is no proof that He did not do it, and by using this means to bring about His plan. You are completely free to see things as you wish, but you are strongly urged to think for yourself. The earth and the other planets exist, they all orbit the sun, and all move in the same direction. These facts fit the model of the formation of the earth. This is impossible to know for sure. The leading theory is the big bang which created the entire universe as we know it and provided the elements for the first stars. There was a giant star where the solar system is now. It exploded spreading material out through space. The material contained all the elements we find in our solar system today. After many millions of years the material started to come together again because of gravity. Most of the material came together in the middle to form our sun. The rest of material circled round the sun and came together through gravity and collisions to make the planets about 4.5 billion years ago. It took another few million years for the collisions to stop, one giant collision with the early Earth is thought to have created the moon. The Earth started off molten but began to cool and formed the crust. During the cooling most of the water and gases were released from inside to form the oceans and the atmosphere. After life evolved it changed the atmosphere and the surface to what we see now.
