大海母親—混沌初開Mother Sea：The Gray Beginnings
Mother Sea：The Gray Beginnings－大海母親——混沌初開
Beginnings are apt to be shadowy， and so it is with the beginnings of that great mother of life， the sea． Many people have debated how and when the earth got its ocean， and it is not surprising that their explanations do not always agree． For the plain and inescapable truth is that no one was there to see， and in the absence of eyewitness accounts there is bound to be a certain amount of disagreement． So if I tell here a story of how the young planet Earth acquired an ocean， it must be a story pieced together from many sources and containing many whole chapters the details of which we can only imagine． The story is founded on the testimony of the earth＇s most ancient rocks， which were young when the earth was young；on other evidence written on the face of the earth＇s satellite， the moon； and on hints contained in the history of the sun and whole universe of star-filled space． For although no man was there to witness this cosmic birth， the stars and the moon and the rocks were there，and， indeed， had much to do with the fact that there is an ocean．
大海母親——混沌初開
事物的起源往往模糊不清，偉大的生命之母——大海的起源也是如此。不少人曾討論過，地球上的海洋怎樣形成，在什么時候形成。對于這個問題，眾說紛壇，這不足為怪。因為，道理非常簡單，沒有人目睹過大海的形成，這是無可否認的事實。沒有見證人的證詞，當然會產生各種各樣的見解。所以，如果我在此議論在混沌初開的大地上，海洋是如何如何形成的話，那么這種論述只能是由許多資料拼湊而成，并且其中的一些大量完整的章節內包含的細節我們只能憑想象。地球上最古老的巖石就是海洋形成過程的見證人，當時它們和地球一樣年輕；地球的衛星月亮的表面上留下的痕跡提供了另外的證據；而太陽和那布滿星星的茫茫天宇的歷史也提供了線索。雖然沒有人能夠目睹宇宙的形成，但是，星星、月亮和巖石卻存在著，并且的確與海洋的形成密切相關。
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