Theoretical origin of life; earliest land life (Introduction)

by dhw, Thursday, July 26, 2018, 13:07 (2094 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.” 7 So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the vault “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.

TONY: Carbon Dioxide rich clouded atmosphere, likely full of volcanic ash and debris as early earth tectonics occured.

The author sees the water and the sky, and he says God did it. He doesn’t mention carbon dioxide, volcanic ash, debris or tectonics.

9 And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.

TONY: End of early tectonic shifting, or possibly the crash that created the moon depending on which theory you like, and settling of the oceans.

The author sees land and sea, and he says God did it. He doesn’t mention tectonic shifting or any other theory. And the author sees vegetation, and animals, and the stars, and the sun and the moon and day and night, and he says God did it. Nobody is denying that sky, water, plants, animals, stars etc. exist, and the only explanation the bible gives is that God did it. Then we humans come along and try to explain the science behind what God did. David’s example of the mustard seed would be a good one (a) if you believed in the big bang theory of a universe springing from some sort of nothing, and (b) if you believed that “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” means that in the beginning there was a small place no larger than a grain of mustard.

TONY: Now, I am not implying 6 literal days or anything, but merely pointing out that the bible doesn't specify whether he created each species or not, but it DOES specify that things were created at seperate times, which implies the prototypes were introduced when the time was right in terms of Earth's development.

If separate creation is not specified, then I don’t know what all the fuss was about when Darwin argued for common descent. Species appearing at different times is no problem for a theory which argues that all species descended from earlier forms of life, and it stands to reason that they would only have appeared when conditions were right for them to appear.

TONY: Even if you don't believe the biblical narrative, you do have to wonder how they could write an accounting so damn close to what we have discovered. It should not be possible by our accounting of history.

It’s you who wrote the account of what we have discovered. The author wrote that what he saw was created by God.