It is an introduction to the subject Earth Science. This will help the students to have a background of the origin of the universe.

1. How did everything as we
know it today, come into
being?

2. Theories on the Origin of
the Universe

3. • The narrative from
Genesis, one of the
books of the Hebrew
Bible and Christian Old
Testament, described
how God Separated light
from darkness, created
the sky, land, sea, moon,
stars, and every living
creature in a span of six
days.

4. • The Hindu text Rigveda
describes the universe as
an oscillating universe. The
universe is a “cosmic egg”
or Brahmanda that
expands out of a single
concentrated point called
Bindu, and will eventually
collapse again.

5. •Anaxagoras
believed that the
universe today
came from a
primordial universe.
He explained that
the universe today
came from
primordial mixture.

6. • Greek philosophers
Leucippus and
Democritus believed
in an atomic universe.
They believed that
the universe was
composed of very
small, indivisible, and
indestructible atoms.

7. • Greek philosophers
Aristotle and Ptolemy
proposed the
geocentric universe
where Earth stayed
motionless in the
heavens and
everything is revolving
around it.

8. • In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus proposed the theory
of heliocentrism. He suggested that it is not the
Earth but the Sun is the center of the universe.

9. • In 1584, Giordano Bruno suggested
that even the solar system is not the
center of the universe—it is merely
another star system among an
infinite multitude of others.

10. •In 1687, Sir
Isaac Newton
described the
universe as a
static, steady-
state, infinite
universe.

11. • French philosopher Rene Descartes outlined a
Cartesian vortex model of the universe. According to
Descartes, the space was not empty but was filled
with matter.