What was the Earth like at first?
The Earth began about 4.6 billion years ago, when it was just a speck of dust in space. At that time, there was a lot of hot gas and dust in the universe.
As the dust and gases flowed through space, they created a traffic congestion, and vortexes formed where they clumped together.
Eventually, one of the large vortices began to glow as the sun, and many small clumps formed around the sun.
In the process, the temperature of the universe dropped rapidly, and hard objects were formed in the dust and gas, which collided with each other, broke apart, and then melted and merged together again to form the earth.
The Earth formed in this way was at first like a sloppy ball of fire. Its surface was covered with craters like the moon, and it was surrounded by a cloud of carbon dioxide.
Of course, there were no oceans, no oxygen, and no sky, and moreover, no living creatures existed. The oceans were created, oxygen was produced, and life eventually began. This happened about 500 to 700 million years after the birth of the earth.
