Age of First Plant Life

 
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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