In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

Genesis 1:1-2

That’s probably the most famous opening line in history and it’s full of mystery and poetry. And also more scientifically accurate than you might think. We all know that the earth is the blue planet. It is, so far, the only planet we know of that is blue because of the water. But, there was a lot more water in the early days of our planet than there is now. And there’s still quite a lot now!

Yet the presence of water has been something of a mystery for scientists which given how much there is, shows how little we really know about the earth’s origins.

Water on Earth is omnipresent and essential for life as we know it, and yet scientists remain a bit baffled about where all of this water came from: Was it present when the planet formed, or did the planet form dry and only later get its water from impacts with water-rich objects such as comets?

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/27/906654225/water-water-every-where-and-now-scientists-know-where-it-came-from

Did the planet form dry? The Genesis account of creation says otherwise so what does the latest research suggest?

A new study in the journal Science suggests that the Earth likely got a lot of its precious water from the original materials that built the planet, instead of having water arrive later from afar.

Well, what do you know?

“So here, we just don’t need Jupiter. We don’t need to do anything weird. We just grab the material that was there where the Earth formed, and that’s where the water comes from,” Peslier says.

Quite. We don’t need to do anything weird because that’s what was there when the Earth was formed.

Despite these convincing results, she says, there’s still plenty of watery mysteries to plumb. For example, researchers are still trying to determine exactly how much water is locked deep inside the Earth, but it’s surely substantial — several oceans’ worth.

“There is more water down beneath our feet,” Peslier says, “than there is that you see at the surface.”

And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so.

Genesis 1:9