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Did life exist prior to the evolution of plants? How would that be possible?

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What is a plant? There are different definitions. By the most exclusive definition “plants” are the land plants including mosses and other organisms that don’t contain hardened tissue for transporting water and nutrients. These are called non-vascular plants. Mosses were first seen around 470 million years ago, long before vascular plants. The most inclusive definition […]

Did it rain before the flood (Gen 2:5)?

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Yes, it rained before the flood. How should we understand Gen 2:4-3:24? There are several indications in the text that the passage is not a literal historical account: (1)    No shrub had grown up when Adam was formed (Gen 2:5). But in Gen 1:12-13 plants were described as been created on the third day, three […]

How did plants survive before the sun was created?

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Detailed question: My question is regarding the creation story. How come plants were created before the sun? Were those nocturnal plants? As we know, plants need the sun to live. I’ve posted this question in other sites and I got answers like: Plants can survive 24 hours; There was already light on the first day; […]

What plant species are mentioned in the Bible?

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It is impossible to make a definitive list of plants in the Bible because the names used are not all easily identified with particular species. There have been many attempts to create a full list of Bible plants. Some of them are listed below. A thorough review of scriptural plants is given by Włodarczyk (2007) […]