Peg writes:
it only says 'earth'
as far as i'm aware, the land under the sea is still part of the earth unless scientists have decided otherwise
there are many diffferent types of plants that yield seed and a fruit tree isnt confined to apples and oranges.
greentwiga writes:
Could it have been the plants God made in Genesis 2:9 produced the seed that God refered to in Genesis 1:11.
That would solve the problem as the only thing created on earth before those plants was one man.
This brings up the point I referenced over a year ago, trying to read the Bible with 21st century eyes rather than through the eyes of the writers. When reading the scripture using the eyes of the writers one can see that what they were writing about was what they observed. To understand what is being said, one must understand that the writers had no basic knowledge of what the earth was. To them plants would have to precede animals, but the fact that the land plants listed in Gen1:11 are of the type that they would have seen in Mesopotamia, Canaan & Egypt which is the only areas that these compilers knew of that is the animals and plants of the area. For example, they knew nothing of Carboniferous plants, such as club mosses & seed ferns, which did precede all of the modern fauna of the period of Genesis compilation, but existed contemporary with primitive amphibians & reptiles whereas the angiosperms, listed in Gen1:11 came after even the primitive mammals existed.
ref:
The Ancestor's Tale, Richard Dawkins pg 509 &
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