1. From about 400 million years back to 600 million years, all kinds of complex multicellular life would have been confined to the waters of the earth
.Our world's ecosystems depend upon photosynthesis to construct the fuel that all life runs on; in an ancient world with conditions similar to today's, you would need plants (as organisms that can make complex "fuel" molecules using simple building blocks and energy available from the environment, plants are known as one type of autotrophs, or "self-feeders") to evolve first, or there would be no bottom link to the food chain. Biology of Animals & Plants - Origins & History of Life on Earth
a. [One] theory is the special creation theory, that supernatural forces (pick a candidate from a long list) put the first prokaryotes together as part of the long building plans which would ultimately lead to us. Science tends to be resistant to supernatural explanations of things (they aren't really testable, and their proponents don't accept them as falsifiable), but when you're dealing with conditions so far in the past, there is really no more or less evidence for this idea than any of the others.
Ibid.
2. The opening page of Genesis asserts that plant life appeared after the seas were formed, and names specifically, grass, herbs and fruit trees. According to the author of Genesis, this is the stage where life actually begins: this is the first mention life of any kind. Plant life. Yet, the simple forms of life that are considered plant life were not discovered until a couple of millennia after Genesis was completed. So how come Genesis mentions grass, herbs, and fruit trees at precisely this moment on the creation narrative?
Parker, The Genesis Enigma, chapter four.
a. Genesis 1: 11-12 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
3. Lets start with the accepted doctrine of Darwinian evolution an obvious query is, if life evolved, from what did it evolve? Is it correct to say, as does the Genesis account, that the first form of life to appear after the creation of the seas, is plant life?
a. Chemist and biologist Stanley Millers famous 1953 experiment showed that organic molecules could be formed rather quickly and easily. The organic molecules he produced were neither the organic molecules necessary for life, nor were they produced in an environment simulating the primitive Earth's atmosphere, as is commonly reported. But his initial experiment was significant because it encouraged many other scientists to perform countless experiments about the ways in which organic compounds could be naturally produced.
http://www.ridgenet.net/~do_while/sage/v11i9n.htm
4. The hop from Millers amino acids to conceptualizing the origins of bacteria, archaebacteria, and then eukaryotes is easy enough. The key step was early bacterium evolving a molecule that could use the energy of the suns rays to gain electrons from water: it could photosynthesize. The cyanobacteria were born. Cyanobacteria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
a. Fossils of cyanobacteria as old as 3,600 million years old have been found.
5. But no cyanobacteria in Genesis! Why? Because ancient Israelites would have been oblivious to any single-celled form of life. Wouldnt even have had a word for it. But photosynthesis is synonymous with plant life. And grass, herbs and fruit trees are plants.
So, it is both significant and appropriate that in Genesis we find plant life as the third stage in the creation account ..true?
Science and Genesis seem to agree on this order of events....energy, the earth, the seas....plants.
'Curiouser and curiouser!' cried Alice.
a. [One] theory is the special creation theory, that supernatural forces (pick a candidate from a long list) put the first prokaryotes together as part of the long building plans which would ultimately lead to us. Science tends to be resistant to supernatural explanations of things (they aren't really testable, and their proponents don't accept them as falsifiable), but when you're dealing with conditions so far in the past, there is really no more or less evidence for this idea than any of the others.
Ibid.
2. The opening page of Genesis asserts that plant life appeared after the seas were formed, and names specifically, grass, herbs and fruit trees. According to the author of Genesis, this is the stage where life actually begins: this is the first mention life of any kind. Plant life. Yet, the simple forms of life that are considered plant life were not discovered until a couple of millennia after Genesis was completed. So how come Genesis mentions grass, herbs, and fruit trees at precisely this moment on the creation narrative?
Parker, The Genesis Enigma, chapter four.
a. Genesis 1: 11-12 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
3. Lets start with the accepted doctrine of Darwinian evolution an obvious query is, if life evolved, from what did it evolve? Is it correct to say, as does the Genesis account, that the first form of life to appear after the creation of the seas, is plant life?
a. Chemist and biologist Stanley Millers famous 1953 experiment showed that organic molecules could be formed rather quickly and easily. The organic molecules he produced were neither the organic molecules necessary for life, nor were they produced in an environment simulating the primitive Earth's atmosphere, as is commonly reported. But his initial experiment was significant because it encouraged many other scientists to perform countless experiments about the ways in which organic compounds could be naturally produced.
http://www.ridgenet.net/~do_while/sage/v11i9n.htm
4. The hop from Millers amino acids to conceptualizing the origins of bacteria, archaebacteria, and then eukaryotes is easy enough. The key step was early bacterium evolving a molecule that could use the energy of the suns rays to gain electrons from water: it could photosynthesize. The cyanobacteria were born. Cyanobacteria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
a. Fossils of cyanobacteria as old as 3,600 million years old have been found.
5. But no cyanobacteria in Genesis! Why? Because ancient Israelites would have been oblivious to any single-celled form of life. Wouldnt even have had a word for it. But photosynthesis is synonymous with plant life. And grass, herbs and fruit trees are plants.
So, it is both significant and appropriate that in Genesis we find plant life as the third stage in the creation account ..true?
Science and Genesis seem to agree on this order of events....energy, the earth, the seas....plants.
'Curiouser and curiouser!' cried Alice.
