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†. Gen 1:11a . . And God said: Let the earth sprout vegetation
Before God could set out plantings; He first had to create soil for them to
grow in; which is only barely alluded to in Genesis' reference to dry land
making its appearance: and this is where young-earth theories run into
trouble.
It takes a long time for nature to manufacture soil-- upwards of three
hundred years to a millennium to produce just one inch; which indicates that
it took an enormous number of years after the formation of dry land for the
earth's crust to weather and break down on its own to make soil enough for
plantings; hence the aged-earth creation theories which essentially postulate
that God got vegetation up and going with a starter kit of fertile dirt; which
can't be argued with since there's really no telling exactly how God
proceeded with the manufacture of soil.
But since the earth was designed with the capability to make soil on its own,
I rather think it plausible that God was in no hurry and was pleased to let
nature take its course; as He designed it to take.
The soil requirements of different species vary widely, and no
generalizations can be made concerning an ideal soil for the growth of all
plants; e.g. avocado trees; which thrive just fine in the relatively dry, sunny
climate and alkaline soil of San Diego; do poorly in the acidic soil and much
wetter, not-so-sunny climate of Oregon's Willamette valley. There are
upwards of 30,000 different soils in the USA alone.
†. Gen 1:11b-12 . . seed-bearing plants, fruit trees of every kind on earth
that bear fruit with the seed in it. And it was so. The earth brought forth
vegetation: seed-bearing plants of every kind, and trees of every kind
bearing fruit with the seed in it. And God saw that this was good.
All vegetation was created on the third day. Every plant since then, and all
plants that will ever be, pre-existed in the cell structures, and in the DNA, of
the original flora because God created nothing else after the sixth day. How
do I know that? Because the seventh day wasn't bounded by an evening and
a morning. In other words: God is still resting from His creation labors and
won't fire them up again till the 21st chapter of Revelation. (cf. Isa 65:18,
Isa 66:22)
NOTE: According to Gen 2:4-5, the sprouting spoken of in Gen 11a was
limited until such a time as the Earth's climatic conditions were up and
running.
God is the origin of species, but from the third day on, the various species
reproduced themselves with subsequent adaptations and mutations; which is
okay except that the ability to adapt and mutate has made possible serious
problems with organisms like Escherichia coli O157-H7.
That deadly little pathogen didn't exist in nature till the 20th century. It's the
progeny of regular E-coli adapting itself to overcome the antibiotics used to
control disease in large-scale, overcrowded, unsanitary feed lots where
animals are rapidly fattened up on a brief diet of genetically modified grain
prior to slaughtering them for food.
Although the creator made O157-H7 possible; I doubt if anybody would have
any luck suing Him for product liability since it's humanity's own greed and
stupidity that forced E-coli O157-H7 into the food distribution system. Its
mommy was just trying to give her lethal little offspring the tools necessary
to survive. It's like chaos theorist Dr. Ian Malcolm said in Jurassic Park; "Life
finds a way"
"The prosperity of fools shall destroy them." (Prv 1:32)
NOTE: It's believed by science that there was an era in Earth's youth called
the Carboniferous period when it was blanketed by dense jungles and
forests. As those plants and trees died, and were buried beneath layers of
sediment; their unique chemical structure caused them to be "cooked" into
solid coal; and there is really a lot of it.
Why isn't the Earth currently blanketed by dense jungles and forests? Well;
the earths weather systems are controlled to a large degree by mountains.
The ranges now in existence; e.g. the Andes, the Himalayas, the Rockies,
the Urals, the Appalachians, the Cascades, the Brooks Range, the Alps, etc;
and the various minor inland and coastal ranges didn't always exist. Those
were shoved up over time by the forces of tectonic subduction, volcanism,
and magma pressure.
Even Yosemite's massive granite monoliths haven't always been there. They
were formed deep underground and then somehow shoved up to where they
are now.
†. Gen 1:13 . . And there was evening and there was morning, a third day.
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†. Gen 1:11a . . And God said: Let the earth sprout vegetation
Before God could set out plantings; He first had to create soil for them to
grow in; which is only barely alluded to in Genesis' reference to dry land
making its appearance: and this is where young-earth theories run into
trouble.
It takes a long time for nature to manufacture soil-- upwards of three
hundred years to a millennium to produce just one inch; which indicates that
it took an enormous number of years after the formation of dry land for the
earth's crust to weather and break down on its own to make soil enough for
plantings; hence the aged-earth creation theories which essentially postulate
that God got vegetation up and going with a starter kit of fertile dirt; which
can't be argued with since there's really no telling exactly how God
proceeded with the manufacture of soil.
But since the earth was designed with the capability to make soil on its own,
I rather think it plausible that God was in no hurry and was pleased to let
nature take its course; as He designed it to take.
The soil requirements of different species vary widely, and no
generalizations can be made concerning an ideal soil for the growth of all
plants; e.g. avocado trees; which thrive just fine in the relatively dry, sunny
climate and alkaline soil of San Diego; do poorly in the acidic soil and much
wetter, not-so-sunny climate of Oregon's Willamette valley. There are
upwards of 30,000 different soils in the USA alone.
†. Gen 1:11b-12 . . seed-bearing plants, fruit trees of every kind on earth
that bear fruit with the seed in it. And it was so. The earth brought forth
vegetation: seed-bearing plants of every kind, and trees of every kind
bearing fruit with the seed in it. And God saw that this was good.
All vegetation was created on the third day. Every plant since then, and all
plants that will ever be, pre-existed in the cell structures, and in the DNA, of
the original flora because God created nothing else after the sixth day. How
do I know that? Because the seventh day wasn't bounded by an evening and
a morning. In other words: God is still resting from His creation labors and
won't fire them up again till the 21st chapter of Revelation. (cf. Isa 65:18,
Isa 66:22)
NOTE: According to Gen 2:4-5, the sprouting spoken of in Gen 11a was
limited until such a time as the Earth's climatic conditions were up and
running.
God is the origin of species, but from the third day on, the various species
reproduced themselves with subsequent adaptations and mutations; which is
okay except that the ability to adapt and mutate has made possible serious
problems with organisms like Escherichia coli O157-H7.
That deadly little pathogen didn't exist in nature till the 20th century. It's the
progeny of regular E-coli adapting itself to overcome the antibiotics used to
control disease in large-scale, overcrowded, unsanitary feed lots where
animals are rapidly fattened up on a brief diet of genetically modified grain
prior to slaughtering them for food.
Although the creator made O157-H7 possible; I doubt if anybody would have
any luck suing Him for product liability since it's humanity's own greed and
stupidity that forced E-coli O157-H7 into the food distribution system. Its
mommy was just trying to give her lethal little offspring the tools necessary
to survive. It's like chaos theorist Dr. Ian Malcolm said in Jurassic Park; "Life
finds a way"
"The prosperity of fools shall destroy them." (Prv 1:32)
NOTE: It's believed by science that there was an era in Earth's youth called
the Carboniferous period when it was blanketed by dense jungles and
forests. As those plants and trees died, and were buried beneath layers of
sediment; their unique chemical structure caused them to be "cooked" into
solid coal; and there is really a lot of it.
Why isn't the Earth currently blanketed by dense jungles and forests? Well;
the earths weather systems are controlled to a large degree by mountains.
The ranges now in existence; e.g. the Andes, the Himalayas, the Rockies,
the Urals, the Appalachians, the Cascades, the Brooks Range, the Alps, etc;
and the various minor inland and coastal ranges didn't always exist. Those
were shoved up over time by the forces of tectonic subduction, volcanism,
and magma pressure.
Even Yosemite's massive granite monoliths haven't always been there. They
were formed deep underground and then somehow shoved up to where they
are now.
†. Gen 1:13 . . And there was evening and there was morning, a third day.
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