Eli5: How do oceans exist? Specifically, how was water able to build up like that on earth without evaporating?

Question

I don’t know anything about the formation of large bodies of water, so here I am.

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Answer 1

The air can only hold so much water vapor before it condenses and falls as rain.

Even if the air was constantly at 100% capacity, there would still be way more water than that. It has to go somewhere.