Well isn't this just a lovely example of using one set of mythology as a post hoc justification for another?
(1) That wasn't a day, it was some 3 to 4 billion years.
(2) Despite some bad science fiction depictions there's no evidence that Earth's early atmosphere was any less clear than at present. Oxygen does not make it clear.
The Earth's atmosphere has never been opaque.
Non-visible light?!? Are you sure that you know what light is? Or are you trying to grow plants under a heat lamp?
As anybody who has ever grown a garden could tell you, attempting to maintain plants under the extreme shade that you describe is a fool's errand.
Blue-green algae are not plants. They are bacteria, lacking a cell wall, organized nucleus, or any sort of differentiated tissues.
But nice work proving the bible wrong.
(February 26, 2023 at 5:01 pm)snowtracks Wrote: Day 4 - continuing the Genesis narrative
Creation day 4 is when Earth’s atmosphere is transformed from always translucent to being at least intermittently transparent so that animals on day 5 will be able to see the positions of the Sun, Moon, and stars in the sky and use those positions to regulate their biological clocks.
The second great oxygenation event transformed Earth’s atmosphere from a dense haze into a transparent sky* - oxygen is needed to make the atmosphere clear.
(1) That wasn't a day, it was some 3 to 4 billion years.
(2) Despite some bad science fiction depictions there's no evidence that Earth's early atmosphere was any less clear than at present. Oxygen does not make it clear.
Quote:Recap of events prior to Day 4:
Before Earth days – Genesis 1:1 - translated “the heavens and the earth indicates that the entire physical universe—including our solar system—was created prior to creation day one on Earth. Thus, the Sun existed before the preparation of the Earth for life even started.
On day one, “Let there be light”, light, already existent and emanating from the Sun, could now pierce through the darkness of the primordial planet’s opaque atmosphere. Light could now reach Earth’s surface. However, an Earth observer would not, at this point, have been able to see the source of this light.
The Earth's atmosphere has never been opaque.
Quote:[color=#0e101a]This limited, non-visible, light
Non-visible light?!? Are you sure that you know what light is? Or are you trying to grow plants under a heat lamp?
Quote:was sufficient for the survival of vegetation
As anybody who has ever grown a garden could tell you, attempting to maintain plants under the extreme shade that you describe is a fool's errand.
Quote:which science now confirms predated complex animal life, as Genesis indicates.
Blue-green algae are not plants. They are bacteria, lacking a cell wall, organized nucleus, or any sort of differentiated tissues.
But nice work proving the bible wrong.
