"...And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the third day..."
The YLT Version notes *tender
And the earth bringeth forth tender grass, herb sowing seed after its kind, and tree making fruit (whose seed is in itself) after its kind; and God seeth that it is good;
* according to popular theories about Vendian organism their lack of hard-body structure which explains lack of fossils, as it stands, why mention "tender" in Genesis at all, unless it implies a soft-body plan.
The King James Version of the Bible (Copyright 1972, Nelson Publishers) concurs with the following footnote,
More from the Atlas of the Prehistoric World on the mystery of the Vendian organisms,
I took a peek at some of the very fascinating research that is taking place with Lichens today, too. Seems these things are not like most organisms in the plant or animal kingdom, and able to "shut down" and "turn back on" when supplied with water... a life expectancy of approximately thousands of years. Amazing, isn't it? That's including varying light sources.. surviving under snow for indefinate periods of time.. they simply "shut down".
The following information I retrieved from (fairly reliable) websites, including some research papers available on the web which are written in technical terms, but the research focuses on the following (simpler terms) information. (i.e., lichens in light, lichens in dark... one suggested, "The dissimilarity between 3H and 14C labelling patterns has led to the conclusion that polyols synthesized in the absence of photosynthesis must be derived from other stored substrates within the thallus."
Amazing life span.
Canada's Polar Life - Lichens
Lichens are hardy plants, in that they have the ability to "bounce back" from prolonged periods of dessication. They simply absorb water when it is available, wither into a state of dormancy when it is not, and come back to life once they are moistened again. Scientists have studied the extremely slow growth rates of lichens – in particular, map lichen, Rhizocarpon geographicum, and jewel lichen, Xanthoria elegans – and have discovered that these lichens can live more than 4500 years! The constant growth rates of some lichens have been put to good use, as a tool to estimate the age of landforms, such as moraines. The larger the lichen patch, the older the moraine.
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Lichen Habitat
When lichens are wet, they "turn on" and start photosynthesizing and growing. When lichens are dry, they "turn off", become brittle and go dormant. This process is known as "poikilohydry", and other organisms such as mosses and liverworts operate in the same way.
The simplest way to tell if lichen is dormant or growing is by looking at its color. The darker black or brighter green lichen is, chances are that it is photosynthesizing. Of course, if it is wet and pliable, that is a good indication too.
If lichen looks pale and is dry and brittle, then it is dormant and waiting for the next rain or fog event before it starts photosynthesizing.
This could work well for an organism exposed to volcanic activity (as in the Pacific Hydrothermal vents and photosynthetic bacteria in the absence of sunlight), in a sunless world... the lichen needs very little light to survive in even hostile conditions (like those believed to exist in earth's earlier history).
Source: Atlas of the Prehistoric World
Discovery Channel Books, Douglas Palmer, P. 56
The book states:
The Vendian Seaworld
The organisms that lived in the shallow-water seas of Vendian times have puzzled paleontologists for many years. They were all completely soft bodied -- no trace of any hard parts have been found. At first they were thought to be jellyfish and wormlike creatures. But the way their bodies are preserved suggest that they were made of tougher material. Some of them seem to have lived within the seabed and had saclike bodies filled with sand. However, some of the plumed-shaped forms, such as Charnia, are similar to living seapens and sea-anemones.
Sea Anemones?
Scuba Diving - New Jersey and Long Island New York
Plant-like Animals. Invertebrates. Sea Anemones; Northern Coral; Hydroids; Bryozoans; Tube Worms; Barnacles; Sponges; Sea Squirts ...
http://njscuba.net/biology/sw_plant-like.html
Plant or Animal? A sea anemone looks a lot like a plant. It's even named after a kind of flower. But it's really an ocean-dwelling animal, related to corals and jellyfish. An anemone's waving "petals" are stinging tentacles for zapping and trapping. An anemone may use them to stun or even kill prey. Or it may just dine on drifting animal bits. Either way, the anemone uses its wiggling tentacles like ...
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-17408808.html
Scientists are mystified by these early organisms... and most of all, for 3 billion years of "bacteria baking under the sun (that's presumably there," why the lack of hard-body plans in these organisms? Scant fossils, because the organisms were too soft to fossilize? In fact, why the lack of hard-body organisms in general? 3.5 billion years is an awful long time, for bacteria baking under the sun, and nothing happens.... "natural selection" and "random mutations" proposed by Darwinists, simply sit idle. The conditions they propose (if true) should've produced plants and complex organism in great abundance around 3 billion years ago vs. the wee 500 million years ago (as the fossil record shows). Afterall, the atmosphere was loaded with Carbon Dioxide and ideally suited for the proliferation of bacteria to evolve into plants.... but it didn't happen that way.
On this note, Natural Selection is faced with a huge gap... a gap that lasted around 3 billion years, and just a little too much Darwinism to swallow.
The oldest evidence of life on earth remains at around 3.8 thru 3.5 billion years, with a carbon molecule extracted from a rock and, stromatolites (cyanobacterial activity formation on rocks). As shown here-in, a discovery in the deep Pacific, in total darkness where photosynthetic bacteria, can and do photosynthesize around the dim light of hydrothermal vents, and from the Earth's own energy.
In all this time, 3.5 billion years... where are the living organisms that Natural Selection predicts? The fossil record is empty.
The presence of sunlight would necessitate hard-body plans to retain moisture. Left alone on dry ground, the sun would bake a soft-bodied organism, dehydration, then death. But this "crazy hypothesis" is precisely what science has hypothesized as the cause behind the lack of fossils during the Vendian: Soft Body Plans. A dark world (without sunlight) would be ideally suited and could indeed support an ecosystem filled with non-photosynthetic organisms... even a limited number of Photosynthetic organisms, as was recently discovered in the deep Pacific, in the total absence of sunlight.
(See Recent Discovery of Green Sulfur Bacteria on From a Deep Sea Hydrothermal Vent :
Recent Discovery of Green Sulfur Bacteria on From a Deep Sea Hydrothermal Vent
The work of Beatty, Blankenship, et al. (2005) lead to the discovery of a previously undiscovered species that lives in the near vicinity of a deep-sea hydrothermal vent in the East Pacific Rise (Figure 5). The region from which the microbe was extracted is spotted with volcanic sites and many different types of underwater vents, making the area ideal for discovering new photosynthetic anaerobes. Although it is possible to verify the presence of organisms by analyzing samples of bulk DNA, Beatty et al. took a different approach to discern the presence of intact cells. They took samples of ocean water for cultivation rather than direct PCR amplification of bulk DNA. Samples were grown in medium prepared specifically for the cultivation of green and purple photosynthetic bacteria. Incubation occurred at 25 degrees C and a weak fluorescent light, as well as a 60-watt incandescent bulb, was turned on to provide a source of photons.
It is well-known fact, Earth is its earlier geological stages were covered in volcanic activity, providing a localized source for light and any photosynthetic bacteria and plant life to thrive. Let's be earnest with ourselves, if scientists can propose the "crazy theory" that this discovery somehow supports the "...hypothesis that life exists on other planets devoid of star-light. In addition to providing supporting evidence for extraterrestrial life..."
But Darwinists say we're not suppose to dare theorize that these events took place, right here on Earth in the early geological record.
*shreiking* fears of God, and Genesis, and if the Genesis account is true... "we might be obligated to obey those awful commandments that would have kept us from having so much fun..."
The author below, is speaking of our modern photosynthetic-dependent ecosystem, and not of an ecosystem comprised entirely of organisms that are non-photosynthetic, or primarily non-photosynthetic (as holds true with the example of mistletoe).
In the absence of light, life on earth [note mine: as it stands in current world] would not exist. Biological photosynthesis is among the most important reactions on planet earth that allows life to thrive. It was long thought that life was restricted primarily to photic zones where photosynthetic primary producers could access the light needed to drive their metabolism. This view was challenged with the discovery of green sulfur bacteria that grow deep in the ocean floor. Green sulfur bacteria are photosynthetic microbes that are capable of thriving in ecological regions that have extremely low levels of solar radiation. It has been proposed that certain types of green sulfur bacteria use what is known as Geothermal Radiation to supplement their chemotrophic metabolism. The emission of photons from geothermal vents could have provided a selective advantage to chemotrophic ancestors of modern day green sulfur bacteria that utilized light sensing systems to perform phototaxis towards sulfur-rich geothermal vents (3). A new microbial world at the bottom of the ocean adds to our knowledge of the incredible biological diversity that our planet planet nurtures and sheds light on a new ecological system.
On Earth, the discovery of a photosynthetic species capable of using geothermal radiation, rather than solar sources, helps support the hypothesis that life [...] on Earth originated in conditions similar to those displayed in the vicinity surrounding deep sea hydrothermal vents.
In green sulfur bacteria, the harvesting of light is in part carried out by the Fenna-Matthews-Olson protein (FMO). Based on the current literature, the FMO protein is thought to belong uniquely to the green sulfur bacteria (4). The chlorobiaceae contain Fe-S type reaction centers that share an ancestor with oxygenic photosynthetic organisms that utilize photosystem I (4).
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