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● Gen 1:11a . . Then God said: Let the land produce vegetation
This is the very first mention of life on Earth; and what's interesting about it is that life on Earth wasn't created from nothing, rather, by means of ingredients taken from the earth itself; e.g. aqua life and winged life were made from water and terra life was made from land.
● 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.
According to Gen 2:4-5, the land's plant life was dormant in the beginning; it didn't actually flourish until the atmosphere began producing precipitation.
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 earth's conditions today cannot produce enough humidity, nor enough rain, nor enough global warming to sustain the kinds of heavy vegetation that once existed in the Carboniferous era. In other words: the earth, over time, has managed to give itself a remarkable make-over; and at least one element of its make-over are the 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.
Anyway, point being; those ranges have a very great deal to do with the earth's current weather systems.
● Gen 1:13 . . And there was evening and there was morning, a third day.
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● Gen 1:11a . . Then God said: Let the land produce vegetation
This is the very first mention of life on Earth; and what's interesting about it is that life on Earth wasn't created from nothing, rather, by means of ingredients taken from the earth itself; e.g. aqua life and winged life were made from water and terra life was made from land.
● 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.
According to Gen 2:4-5, the land's plant life was dormant in the beginning; it didn't actually flourish until the atmosphere began producing precipitation.
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 earth's conditions today cannot produce enough humidity, nor enough rain, nor enough global warming to sustain the kinds of heavy vegetation that once existed in the Carboniferous era. In other words: the earth, over time, has managed to give itself a remarkable make-over; and at least one element of its make-over are the 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.
Anyway, point being; those ranges have a very great deal to do with the earth's current weather systems.
● Gen 1:13 . . And there was evening and there was morning, a third day.
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