Genesis 1v3:

" And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light"

2 Peter 3-5

3 Above all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. 4 They will say, "Where is this 'coming' he promised? Ever since our ancestors died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation." 5 But they deliberately forget that long ago by God's word the heavens came into being and the earth was formed out of water and by water.

How the heck you extrapolate the formation of Mercury from that lot is anyone's guess.

"I did not know the oort cloud had been observed- a ref maybe?"

Crikey, the man who never supplies refs wants a ref! Whooda thunk it?

So here goes . . . I don't think the Oort cloud is directly observable, but we know from the orbits of comets they are bound to our sun, and must have originated from beyond the orbit of Pluto but not interstellar space (which I'm guessing Pete doesn't think exists anyway) and are pulled into the inner solar system due to the gravitational forces of the planets essentially knocking them off kilter.

Odd though Pete. You accept everything in the Bible (including the nasty bits) on face value, and as the literal truth but then refuse to believe anything else that runs contrary to unless . . . some bloke on a creationist website says it's true. Is your only way of discerning any fundamental, observable truth by referring back to the bible and anonymous posts on the web? How do you cope with the telly, mobile phones and, er, computers? These rely on scientific principles which you don't believe in, and are not mentioned in the bible.