Creation Day 3: God creates the "chemical" breath of life 15 2
God's step-by-step 'timed process' in creating plants on Earth. We began this chapter by attempting to answer the big question - where does oxygen come from ? Based solely on the biblical truth ( Deuteronomy 19:15 ) that a fact must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses : • Witness #1 - God's Word - Genesis 1:11 - Then God said, "Let the earth sprout vegetation: plants yielding seed and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit after their kind with seed in them"; and it was so ; • Witnesses #2, 3...... R elative and absolute dating methods used in determining the specific age of rock samples . H ere is a summary of the step-by-step order of scientific evidence showing you how God created life-giving oxygen on planet earth. • God created plants on earth at the end of Creation Day 3 to be the "producers" of all the future 'food and oxygen' requirements needed for both animals and humans to survive on planet earth. • Today, 21% of the air we breathe (our lungs absorb 6% O2 with each breath) is composed of free oxygen molecules ( O2 ) produced solely inside the chloroplast of plants by the process of photosynthesis: 6 CO2 + 6 H2O + Sunlight (Energy) = C6H12O6 (glucose) + 6 O2 • God created the life-sustaining process of respiration in animals to be the complete opposite process of photosynthesis : C6H12O6 (glucose) + 6 O2 = 6 CO2 + 6 H2O + ATP ( Energy ) • During the first half of our planet's 4.5 billion year history, there was no evidence (in rock samples) of free oxygen (O2) in the atmosphere. • The first direct evidence of free oxygen (O2) in earth's atmosphere w as found in two different rock sources both radioactively dated to be 3.5 billion years old ; banded iron (Fe2O3) rock formations and fossilized stromatolites formed by photosynthetic cyanobacteria. Genesis 1:11 begins with the declarative statement : God said, "Let the earth sprout forth vegetation.." The Hebrew word for sprout is תַ ּֽדְש֤ ֵׁא pronounced taḏ·šê which means to grow, spring up, or to come forth. In order for God's newly created oxygen producing plants to sprout forth in great diversity and cover the entire earth, they will need one final and very vital ingredient that God will make fully available on Creation Day 4 .
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