For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water... 2 Peter 3:5
"As that story goes, in the
half-billion years after it formed, Earth was hellish and hot.
The
infant world would have been rent by volcanism and bombarded by other
planetary crumbs, making for an environment so horrible, and so
inhospitable to life, that the geologic era is named the Hadean, for the
Greek underworld.
Not until a particularly violent asteroid barrage
ended some 3.8 billion years ago could life have evolved.
Many geologists now think Earth may have been tepid and
watery from the outset. The oldest rocks in the record suggest parts of
the planet’s crust had cooled ....Oxygen in those ancient rocks suggest the planet had water." QuantaMagazine