Quote: I do not see the evidence for this being the beginning state of affairs.
Just to be clear, you are rejecting the work done by thousands of geologists, hydrologists, seismologists, volcanologists, physicists and chemists, and also rejecting the accumulation of - quite literally - tens of millions of bits of mutually corroborative evidence that tell us that the Earth in its early stages was a fearsomely hot, noxious place, bombarded almost ceaselessly by cosmic radiation and countless meteorites, and beset with volcanic activity of a nearly unimaginable frequency and violence...
...in favour of the cultural myths of a group of non-literate semi-savages? Seriously?
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax