Our dependency on integrated relationships linking all life forms on Earth
We live in a World that relies entirely opon interrelationships that exist between all the different life forms, fungi, plant life,
insects and the animal kingdom.
The Bible makes clear that God created all the different life forms in a sequence that enabled them to develop and thrive. Plants
first to provide food for the arrival of animals, including human kind, at a later time. This is not just sensible it is essential
because animals could not have survived without sustenance from seed bearing plants. Of course before the emergence of plant life
the sun needed to exist to enable photosynthesis to take place. The Bible confirms this also.
Photosynthesis, the process by which plants use energy from the sun to make food, utilises carbon dioxide from the air and
water from the soil to make sugar and oxygen. Most plants release oxygen during the day, when the sun can power photosynthesis.
Plants perform the dual role of absorbing the carbon
dioxide (greenhouse gas!) expelled by animals during feeding, and replenishing the oxygen needed to enable animals to
continue breathing.
The relationship between
plants and animals is a symbiotic one, the plants provide food and oxygen for the animals, and the animals provide carbon dioxide
for plant growth.
Carbon is the backbone of life on Earth. We are made of carbon, we eat carbon, and our civilizations-our economies, our homes, our means of transport-are built on carbon.
Trying to explain the emergence of plants and separately animals by appealing to Darwinian Evolution makes no sense at all. The
theory assumes a single common ancestor of all life forms described by the branching, so called, Phylogenetic tree. There are 3
branches or domains consisting of: bacteria, archaea, and eukaryota accounting for all life on Earth with plants, fungi and animals
in the eukaryota branch.
Plants would need to have evolved first, or at least at the same time as animals, insects, etc., in order to
provide food for them and because of the wide gulf between their genetic make up a very large stretch of the imagination is
needed to subscribe to the notion that a branch of the same evolutionary tree (eukaryota) then yielded them. This concept is
nothing more than a devious attempt to rule God out of the equation, there is no scientific evidence to support Darwin's tree of
life, it is purely speculative and uninstantiable.
We are meant to believe that all life emerged from an unknown common ancestor 4.5 billion years ago, the agument being that if
enough time is allocated anything is possible with plants evolving in tandem with animals that were then able to gratefully set
about eating them.
An obvious question is why would plant life come into being, in parallel with insect life, and animal life via Evolution? It cannot
be a coincidence that they all dependent for their very survival on one another.
Blind Darwinian Evolution could not have
given rise to this complex interdependency as it relies on randomnes that can have no regard for, or any influence over, the
development of these differing life forms. As Richard Dawkins
says in his book, 'The Selfish Gene': 'it is reproductive success rather than individual excellence that determines
the course of evolution'. Only a design mastermind could have established the symbiotic relationships that life in all its glory
hinges upon.
God alone is capable of miracles and His miracle of Creation was based on an entirely different and wholly more pleasing approach
as laid down in the Bible.
In conclusion the Bible account of the origin of life is plausible and fits the facts, whereas evolution based ideology however
it is twisted cannot.
What does the Psalmist have to say?
Psalm 139:14
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
Psalm 8:
For the director of music. According to gittith. A psalm of David.
1
Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory in the heavens.
2
Through the praise of children and infants
you have established a stronghold against your enemies,
to silence the foe and the avenger.
3
When I consider your heavens,
the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which you have set in place,
4
what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
human beings that you care for them?
5
You have made them a little lower than the angel
and crowned them with glory and honor.
6
You made them rulers over the works of your hands;
you put everything under their feet:
7
all flocks and herds,
and the animals of the wild,
8
the birds in the sky,
and the fish in the sea,
all that swim the paths of the seas.
9
Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
What does Isaiah 45:18 have to say?
For this is what the Lord says
'He who created the heavens,
he is God;
he who fashioned and made the earth,
he founded it;
he did not create it to be empty,
but formed it to be inhabited'
he says:
'I am the Lord,
and there is no other'.
