Did God create the world out of celestial gas?

Answer 1

AnswerThe Genesis accounts do not say whether the world was created out of celestial gas. In fact, both creation stories say that the earth already existed prior to the creation - the world was not created by God ex nihilo. And if God did not create the word out of nothing (ex nihilo), then perhaps we could say that he created it out of celestial gas.

What we do know is that the world was created billions of years ago, when a gas accretion that encircled the sun cooled down and formed the planets. That gaseous accretion is believed to have been formed when a nearby supernova star exploded, sending out vast quantities of heavy elements, a small part of which was captured bt the sun's gravitational field.