A CNN article Jan 28th, 1999 titled "Study finds evidence of life 3.7 billion years old", discussed traces of plankton existing at least 3.7 billion years ago and OLDER than known fossil evidence for photosynthetic cyanobacteria dated at 3.5 billion years ago. The Danish researchers were Minik Rosing and colleagues at the Geologisk Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark. They also note that finding evidence older than 3.7 billion years would be tough since the earth tends to recycle said matter, the evidence for plant life being all the tougher to extract. Note: It's clear that plants would have to have formed first so the future life could live off the plant sugars. The evidence shown above confirms plant life existing prior, and also hints that earlier more simple plant life would have existed. Following the details given in Genesis and considering the regathering matter forming the moon and earth's final layer matter (their upper crusts being similar), it's clear that with the moon ending it's formation at 4.5 billion years ago, that finding direct evidence for plant life at 3.7 billion years is within the realm of Genesis being correct about said plants existing. Further confirmation that Genesis is correct is that there is also the problem of earth having only 2-3% CO2 in the atmosphere while being between the planets venus and mars which run at 95% CO2 in their atmospheres. This too is a clear indication that plants removed the excess CO2 and that the CO2 levels stabilized after the moon formed, the initial plant life having been covered over. Genesis of course was also correct in saying that the plant life contained the "seed" of life within itself in that there were no insects around to promote any other form of renewal of said plant life. In other words, said plant life had to be self replicating, science agrees. The english text version of Genesis does not use the most optimal currently available terms to describe this, though it was in fact accurate enough in saying "plants". This since the broader definition of "plants" is that of anything that is 'photoautotropic', which includes photosynthetic plankton. The Hebrew does allow the plant life to be simple forms of herbs or vegitation. They did not have a word for single cell plant life, but the term as used in Genesis, is directly read in todays broader definition of "plants". God gave the Genesis account to Moses using terms that they could pass on, and the term for "plants", does in fact allow Genesis to be read correctly "as is". God made it all, Jesus died for our sins.
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