Wasn't there some similar hypothesis believed to have created planets that was taken seriously up until just a few decades ago? I remember reading an older book where they explained that planets get created when something disturbs the star which then ejects matter that forms into planets, and that was a reason why the planets are supposedly very rare to occur.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
