Third Creative Day - Part 2Posted By Brien Stratton |
The Bible account adds: "' Let the earth cause grass to shoot forth , vegetation bearing seed, fruit trees yielding fruit according to their kinds, the seed of which is in it, upon the earth.' And it came to be so ." (Genesis 1:11.
Thus by the close of this third creative period, three broad categories of land plants had been created. The diffused light would have become quite strong by then, ample for the process of photosynthesis so vital to green plants. Incidentally, the account here does not mention every "kind" of plant that came on the scene. Microscopic organisms, water plants and others are not specifically named, but likely were created on this "day".
Photosynthesis is essential for plants. A green plant cell has a number of smaller parts called chloroplasts, which obtain energy from sunlight. " These microscopic factories", explains the book-Planet Earth, " manufacture sugars and starches...No human has ever designed a factory more efficient, or whose whose products are more in demand, than a chloroplast."
Indeed , later animal life would depend upon chloroplasts for survival. Also, without green vegetation, earth's atmosphere would be overly rich in carbon dioxide , and we would die from heat and lack of oxygen. Some specialists give astonishing explanations for the development of life dependant on photosynthesis. For example, they say that when single-celled organisms in the water began to run out of food, " a few pioneering cells finally invented a solution. They arrived at photosynthesis." But could that really be so? Photosynthesis is so complex that scientists are still attempting to unravel its secrets. Do you think that self-reproducing photosynthetic life arose inexplicably and spontaneously? Or do you find it more reasonable to believe that it exists as a result of intelligent, purposeful creation, as Genesis reports?
The appearance of new varieties of plant life may not have ended the third creative "day". It could even have been going on into the sixth "day", when the Creator "planted a garden in Eden" and "made to grow out of the ground every tree desirable to one's sight and good for food." (Genesis 2:8,9) And, as mentioned , the earth's atmosphere must have cleared on "day" four , so that more light from the sun and other heavenly bodies reached planet earth.
To be continued.....
Brien
Thus by the close of this third creative period, three broad categories of land plants had been created. The diffused light would have become quite strong by then, ample for the process of photosynthesis so vital to green plants. Incidentally, the account here does not mention every "kind" of plant that came on the scene. Microscopic organisms, water plants and others are not specifically named, but likely were created on this "day".
Photosynthesis is essential for plants. A green plant cell has a number of smaller parts called chloroplasts, which obtain energy from sunlight. " These microscopic factories", explains the book-Planet Earth, " manufacture sugars and starches...No human has ever designed a factory more efficient, or whose whose products are more in demand, than a chloroplast."
Indeed , later animal life would depend upon chloroplasts for survival. Also, without green vegetation, earth's atmosphere would be overly rich in carbon dioxide , and we would die from heat and lack of oxygen. Some specialists give astonishing explanations for the development of life dependant on photosynthesis. For example, they say that when single-celled organisms in the water began to run out of food, " a few pioneering cells finally invented a solution. They arrived at photosynthesis." But could that really be so? Photosynthesis is so complex that scientists are still attempting to unravel its secrets. Do you think that self-reproducing photosynthetic life arose inexplicably and spontaneously? Or do you find it more reasonable to believe that it exists as a result of intelligent, purposeful creation, as Genesis reports?
The appearance of new varieties of plant life may not have ended the third creative "day". It could even have been going on into the sixth "day", when the Creator "planted a garden in Eden" and "made to grow out of the ground every tree desirable to one's sight and good for food." (Genesis 2:8,9) And, as mentioned , the earth's atmosphere must have cleared on "day" four , so that more light from the sun and other heavenly bodies reached planet earth.
To be continued.....
Brien