The news has again been filled with stories about the search for planets orbiting nearby stars. All these stories assume that our Earth was not formed by God. They perpetuate the idea that the Earth and other planets in the solar system formed when dust around the young sun began to collect into lumps.

 

Image: Artist’s impression of dust around Beta Pictoris. Courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle (SSC). (PD)