s short-wave radiation and less ozone particles in the lower part of the atmosphere meant longevity for mankind.4 Below is an example of what the atmosphere might have looked like after the second day.5 And God said, Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear. And it was so. God called the dry ground land, and the gathered waters He called seas. And God saw that it was good Genesis 1:9-10.6 Now reading this verse might not conjure up amazing images in your head, but take a look around you and you will see an amazing world that defies the imagination of mortal man. If God had just created man and placed him on an empty planet with nothing to see, no mountains, no bodies of water, no canyons, etc, and asked man to create a world, would we have anything close to what we see around us today? I dare to say that we would probably still be living on an empty world all these years later. Only the one true God could create all that we see and hear.Genesis 1:11-13 deals with the creation of plants and trees. To some this may not seem to be all that amazing, but if you really think about it God was preparing this earth for human inhabitation with all of these creations. Plants and trees are a staple of life and without them the human race would surly parish. We receive oxygen from trees and thus the Lord has created the chemical that gives life through trees. Plants are a mainstay in all societies in that they are the primary source for food and medicine. With plants the Lord gave us the means the physically nourish our bodies and care for them with the medicines that are created from plants and vegetation. Plants that required cultivation either did not appear until Adam was created and could cultivate them, or they appeared but did not grow until Adam was created.7 Verses 114-19 of chapter 1 recount the creation of day and night. This is when the Lord made the greater light (sun) to govern the day and the les...
