And HaShem said "Let the water that is under the heaven be gathered together so the dry land will appear." And it happened.
Modern translation by Rachael Alice Orbach
https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/8165/jewish/Chapter-1.htm
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| Picture by Rachael Alice Orbach , Lifta Valley in Jerusalem in the fall. |
The water had covered all the Earth, it is amazing that of all the planets, dwarf planets and other celestial objects that are in our solar system, only Earth has liquid water. The other planets are either too far from the sun, too close, or don't have enough gravity to keep water on the surface. Mas might have had water, it might have been closer to the Sun. But there might be another factor that we don't think about. Mars' core is not rotating like Earth's and so it has no magnetic field. This might be a reason that water is not liquid. We don't know. In consequence, we are left with Earth having liquid water.
The dry land is where most of the world's history has happened. It is interesting that according to Genesis, this was one of the first things that happened, on the Third Day. All intelligent animals evolved on the dry land. Oh, you say, "What about the Dolphins and the Whales? Aren't they intelligent, and they live in the sea?, Got you! Got you!"
"Yes, they are intelligent and they live in the sea, but they Evolved on Land and they went to live in the Sea." If you look at the skeleton of most dolphins, they have some bones that are left-over from when they roamed the land. Dolphins and whales' ancestors were a cow-like animal that spent most of its time catching fish and slowly evolved that the nose moved to the top of its head and the legs became flippers.
Most of the animals that we interact with on a daily basis, (at least in theory) are from the land. As a result, it is important that the dry land appear early in our history.
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