Christian scientists: Darwinian planet-eating Earth theory hard to swallow
Just as human babies often put things in their mouths and swallow them, researchers at Oxford University have developed a theory that, in its infancy, the baby Earth may have swallowed an entire planet similar to Mercury.
Some Christian scientists see the new theory as a story made up to fill the gaps that Darwinian theory can’t. Others see it as further evidence Earth’s existence can’t be explained by chance happenstance.
Secular scientists have long believed Earth’s magnetic core has existed for more than 3 billion years, but they have not been able to solve one major dilemma: There is no explanation for how this magnetic field could exist for so long. Strictly on its own, the magnetic field would decay within 20,000 years....