Millions of years ago, the world was only made up of one super continent called Pangaea. Because of continental drift and active plate tectonics Pangaea separated to the modern-day 7 continents.
The first Philippine island showed up about 60 million years ago. It is the island of Mindoro and Palawan which is very near the island of present-day Taiwan.Due to geological and plate tectonic evolution, primarily due to the Pacific plate and Australian plate moving inward to the Asian plate; the island of Luzon and Mindanao started to show up. It was only about 30 million years ago when the Indian plate has started to collide with the Asian plate, then, created a tear to which the now West Philippine Sea developed and pushing the solitary Mindoro and Palawan Island closer to the newly developed Luzon and Mindanao islands. The Pacific, Australian and Indian plate continued to push inward to Asia thus creating 7, 107 islands of the now, Philippines.
