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Creation Day 3: God creates the "chemical" breath of life
God's step-by-step 'timed process' in creating plants on Earth. Scientists have recently found the oldest evidence of what our planet's atmosphere was like 4 .3 billion years ago, just 3 00 million years after God first formed the mayim that makes up the Earth on Creation Day 2. By analyzing (using mass spectrometry) the different levels of radioactive isotopes trapped inside some of the oldest rocks in the world, they were able to build a picture of what the air was like at th e time.
The new study, led by a team of researchers from Canada's McGill University's Earth and Planetary Sciences Department in Montreal , was done using metamorphic rocks (gneiss) radioactively dated to be between 3.8 and 4.3 billion years old found along the Hudson Bay coastline in northern Quebec . The same study also showed that
volcanoes were the major player s in setting the composition of ancient air, with massive worldwide eruptions releasing a toxic soup of carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, ammonia and methane gas, some water vapor, but still, no scientific proof of the existence of free oxygen .
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