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I have written before how Psalm 104 is a day-by-day sequence of the Creation account. Verses 7 to 10 specifically cover Day 3, when the mountains thrust out of the waters. Well, get a load of this verse 9…
9 You set a boundary they cannot cross; never again will they cover the earth.
I came across this while writing my web-page on Day 3. It would seem that if Psalm 104 is truly describing the creation, and this verse is to be taken literally, then the seas never again covered the earth. In my opinion, this would include the prospect of rains rising the oceans above the mountains.

This does not mean the entire earth was not impacted, given the tales of a …

Joseph at Always Have a Reason requested a few guest posts about Geocreationism. In response to my first guest post, Geocreationism- Introduction, he suggested I check out the book by Walter Brown, entitled In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood. The preceding link is to an online copy of the book, so I have decided to take up the challenge.
The last Young Earth Creation book I reviewed was “Evidence for Creation” by Tom DeRosa. It was a rather painful review in many ways, where valid points are made about the attitude secular scientists have toward God, but then their work is completely misunderstood and miscast. To date, I have tended to …

4 This is the history of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, 5 before any plant of the field was in the earth and before any herb of the field had grown. For the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground; 6 but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground.
7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man …

Our final installment on the “Plant Evolution Tour” brings us to God’s stated purpose for Day 3… the development of seeded plants.  This includes grass and trees.
…it was during the late Devonian between 395-286Ma that seeds developed (to replace spores).  This was a major evolutionary advance, because it eliminated the requirement for external sources of water for sexual reproduction of plants. It also provided better protection and a nutrient source for the developing embryo. This process of development is thought to have started with the conversion of plants from producing spores of one size (homospory) to producing spores of two sizes (heterospory). It is thought that the larger spores were precursors for ovules, and the smaller ovules precursors for pollen. – …

After reading about the arrival of the first multi-celled plants in Review of “Plant Evolution Tour” - Part 2, we took a slight diversion in Did Jesus Stick to the Creation Script? to explore how it could be that God didn’t record the actual development of life on earth, but did record (through Moses) the removal of its hindrances.  What we concluded in Did Jesus stick to the Creation script? Yes! is that those areas of development not recorded in Genesis were handled by God the Father.  We therefore turn back to our review of the “Plant Evolution Tour” to learn more about what science …

A primary assumption of Geocreationism is that God the Father made the pronouncements recorded in Genesis 1, and Jesus responded by removing the insurmountable hindrance otherwise preventing the Father’s will.

For example, on Day 1, God told Jesus to “let there be light”.  So, Jesus did, by removing the causes of what was a dark and rainy sky.  On Day 2, God told Jesus to “Let there be a firmament.” So, Jesus did, by stopping the turbulent rain that occupied all the space between the clouds and the seas.  On Day 3, God told Jesus to “Let the waters be gathered into one place,” to “let dry land appear,” and to “let the earth bring forth grass” and seeded plants.  So, Jesus did, …

It has been quite a busy month, between practice for our church’s Easter play, plans for our kitchen, birthdays, etc.  Back to writing on creation and evolution!
Currently, I am reviewing Adam Dimech’s “Plant Evolution Tour”.  I really like the detail to which he goes, explaining the earth’s development, but in language a lay person can understand.
Recall that theologically, in Review of “Plant Evolution Tour” - Part 1, I concluded that closing the knowledge gap brings us closer to God, because further discoveries help us separate those things that happened naturally from those that happened supernaturally.  Ironically, the effect on atheists is a stronger and stronger conviction that God is unnecessary….

My theory of Geocreationism is that the Days of creation can be mapped to geologic eras, making it similar to (or yet another flavor of) Day Age Theory.  In that vein, Day 1 occurred about 3.9 Ga, around the time of the last large meteor strike against the early earth.  Day 2 was some time between 3.9 Ga and 3.5 Ga, when the oceans had finally reformed from their last meteoric vaporizing 3.9 Ga.  Day 3, the creation of land and plants, occurred approximately 2.4 Ga, when plate tectonics began.  Day 4 was about 1.9 Ga, when Oxygen levels reached high enough levels for the sun, moon, and starts to be visible in the firmament.  This means that Day 3 could …

Day 3 of Creation saw the beginning of plate tectonics, with the God stated intention of creating dry land, and seeded land plants.  Based on the Geological and Theological evidence, it would seem that God jumpstarted the land to naturally produce the earth’s plant life over the following 2 billion years.  But, why only mention seeded plants?

God created several different kinds of plant life.  Botanists divide them up based on their means of reproduction.  Generally, plants reproduce via spores or seeds.  Spores require the sperm of one plant to find the egg of another in order to reproduce.  Seeds do not require this, containing all of the reproductive material required in just the seed.  In Genesis 1:11, God spoke …

 11 Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.– Genesis 1:11 to 13
Placing God’s creative pronouncement of Day 3 with the appearance of seeded plants on land does not fit into the Geologic Timeline.  The reason is because the sun, moon, and stars were visible in the firmament about 1.9 billion …