The emergence of the early Earth Part One: The Earth arose 4500 million years ago at the beginning of its formation from the gathering of dust and gases arising from the Big Bang that I mentioned earlier in the article on the emergence of the universe. These small parts gathered to be as large as a grain of sand, then as the size of small pebbles, then as the size of a large rock, and so on, these parts kept gathering and growing into a huge body, the size of more than a few kilometers, and it kept growing in size. The earth is scattered with shells of meteorites carrying iron metal, which is mentioned in the Almighty’s verse