If the oceans could not form after the Big Bang, then evolution logically cannot be possible.

Evolution has life beginning in the oceans. Since there is no life without the oceans, the oceans must have formed through evolution for evolution to be true. The important question is then, how did the earth get the oceans? Evolutionists cannot agree on an answer for this either. This is because every possible answer has such big problems that it doesn’t seem to make any sense. Let’s look at some of the ideas of how the oceans could have formed with evolution.

Some people have thought that the water in the oceans came from comets that hit the earth long ago. This is because comets are really big and mainly made of ice. They thought the ice of the comets melted and this is where we got all of the water that is in the oceans. Of course this is a lot of water and seems unreasonable because of this alone. However there is even a better reason we know this is not how the oceans were made.

We have been able to measure the chemistry of water from comets. There are actually two types of water and the difference is the kind of hydrogen that is in the water. The chemical formula for water is H₂O. This means there are two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom in each molecule of water. So there are two kinds of water because there are two kinds of hydrogen. The only thing that really matters about this is that since there are two kinds of water we can see if the water in the oceans came from the water (ice) on comets. For this reason we have sent satellites to comets and we have measured the type of water that is on comets.

It turns out that the amount of deuterium (which is one of the two types of hydrogen) in the ocean water and in the ice on comets are not the same and these make comets as the source of the water in the ocean impossible. This is called the deuterium problem. We have known this a long time after getting samples from around Haley’s comet. Most recently this was confirmed by the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft that made history and headlines when the lander called Philae was the first to actually land on a comet. On November 12, 2014 after traveling 6.4 billion miles in 10 years Philae from the spacecraft Rosetta landed on comet 67P. The measurements of the water from this comet confirmed what we already knew which is the type of water on comets makes it impossible that the water in the oceans came from comets. This is now an undisputed fact. So how else could the oceans have formed on earth?

Other people thought the water of the oceans on earth may have come from meteorites. This has also been disproven in the same way that the deuterium problem rules out comets as the source of the oceans. Meteorites have water like comets, but they also have gas. The gas on meteorites is called xenon. If the meteorites brought all the water that is in the oceans they would bring the xenon gas also. This xenon gas would end up in the atmosphere. Since we know how much xenon gas is in meteorites, and we can measure the gases in the atmosphere of earth, we can figure out if meteorites are what brought all the water to make the oceans.

The journal Scientific American in the article, “What do we know about the origin of Earth’s oceans?” discusses this as “we know that the meteorites could not have delivered all of the water, because then the earth’s atmosphere would contain nearly 10 times as much xenon (an inert gas) as it actually does”. This is called the xenon problem. The facts that we can measure the amount of xenon in the atmosphere, and we know how much xenon is in meteorites, bring us to the conclusion that we know for sure that the oceans did not come from meteorites. This is also an undisputed fact. Where else could the water have come from?

Another possible source of water would be water that is inside the rocks and clay that supposedly came together through accretion when the earth was formed. This possibility would require that core accretion was the way that planets are made and that alone doesn’t make any sense. Core accretion has at least the nine problems already discussed in the section of the formation of planets and for these reasons is not well accepted even by evolutionists. In addition to that there would have to be enough water inside the rocks to make the oceans. This is just plain crazy. There is even an expression, “you cannot get water out of a stone”. How true!

Other people believed that some of the water was from the ice on comets and some from the water that is in rocks. But even if the water of the oceans was in the rocks that made the earth, the core accretion process would make the earth so very hot that no significant amount of water could be from ice on comets. This means that nearly all of the water in the oceans came from water that was inside of rocks. Yes, one theory is that there was enough water inside the rocks that made the earth to then make the oceans! That doesn’t make any sense. It is illogical.

The oceans cannot be from comets because of the deuterium problem and cannot be from meteorites because of the xenon problem, so evolutionists have no other possible explanation for the oceans other than trapped water inside the rocks that made the earth by core accretion. They are stuck with core accretion because of these problems, but when they consider core accretion by itself it doesn’t make sense so evolutionists cannot agree, all the while there is no other explanation.

Evolutionists believe life began in the oceans. Without the oceans there would be no life on earth. How important is this! Did you ever know that the origin of the oceans is not known?

The formation of the oceans is a necessary condition for evolution to be true.

You do not need to be an oceanographer or ocean scientist to be certain:

If the oceans could not form after the Big Bang, then evolution logically cannot be possible.

FURTHER STUDY

The deuterium problem is the reason we know comets are not the source of the water in the oceans. This is because the amount of deuterium in the ocean water and in the ice on comets is not the same. Most hydrogen molecules in water have one proton and no neutrons in the nucleus of each hydrogen molecule. However some hydrogen molecules can have one neutron along with the one proton in the nucleus of the hydrogen and this is called deuterium. This is also called ‘heavy hydrogen’ or ‘heavy water’. After the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft landed on comet 67P the journal Science published the findings of Rosetta in the article “Comet Breakthrough of the Year” which “found an exceptionally high ratio of heavy hydrogen (deuterium) to regular hydrogen. Because this D-to-H ratio is so much higher than that found in Earth water, it suggests that comets like 67P—part of a group that hails from the Kuiper belt, a region beyond Neptune—could not have played a major role in delivering water to Earth”. This exception deep space mission has confirmed that the oceans could never have come from the melting of ice on comets that hit the earth.

The deuterium problem makes comets as the source of the oceans impossible and the xenon problem makes meteorites as the source of the oceans impossible. The heat of core accretion makes water contained in the rocks that made Earth as the source of the oceans impossible. The last possible source of water to make the oceans on the earth would be individual molecules of hydrogen and oxygen that were trapped inside the rocks that made the earth. Some people think maybe there was enough hydrogen and oxygen atoms separately in the rocks that then changed into H₂O to make water. This also depends on core accretion to be the way the planet was made and core accretion by itself is a controversial necessary condition. However it is the magnitude of the size of the oceans that is overwhelmingly against this theory. This would be a lot of hydrogen and oxygen molecules to make this much water. The oceans cover 71% of the surface of the earth with an average depth of nearly 2.65 miles and a volume estimated at 332,500,000 cubic miles. This doesn’t make any sense either.

It is a published fact in peer reviewed scientific journals that the origin of the oceans is unknown.