The Hollies sang about the symbiotic relationship between humans and plants. What? You didn’t know that? Well, then you obviously never heard them sing, “All I need is the air that I breathe” in one of their hit songs. Sorry you missed it. Nice song with great harmonies.
“What’s that? You don’t understand how that’s symbiotic?”
OK, here’s the bare bones explanation of the symbiotic relationship between us and plants. You and I exhale carbon dioxide. And trees (and plant life in general) need carbon dioxide to thrive. At the same time, trees, and the rest of the plant kingdom, produce oxygen after taking in carbon dioxide. See? We need plants, and they need us.
So, I’m gonna go out on a limb (see what I did there?) and leap to the conclusion that we must have all been created at about the same time.
Still not convinced on how this symbiotic stuff works?
Want another example of these relationships?
OK. How about honeybees? I love honeybees. Because they’re cute little creatures who stay busy all day gathering pollen from flowers just to make the sweetener for my coffee.
How thoughtful.
So, pollen-bearing plants need honeybees. And honeybees need those plants and other bees. The queen bee, worker bees, and drones all need each other. Because if any one of them had evolved without the other, they wouldn’t have been able to survive.
Creation explains and clarifies their existence. Evolution doesn’t.
I’m gonna keep on sharing the story of how creation beautifully explains our existence and how everything makes so much sense. It’s all because all of creation had a common designer. Not a common ancestor.
Jesus made you. He’s logical, sensible, personal, reasonable, and loving. And it makes so much more sense to believe in being designed by someone like that than simply popping up out of slime. Because being designed inspires trust and hope. Mutating into existence doesn’t.
The Very First Day
Before there were created things, and darkness filled the air…
No world or human beings were existing anywhere.
Then God created earth and sea and all the heavens too.
There was no sun, no moon, no stars, & only God shone through.
He looked down at the waters and the dark face of the deep.
The earth was still and quiet just as we are when we sleep.
He said, “Let there be light” the way a perfect, true God could,
And then He saw the brand new light and knew that it was good.
Then God divided light and dark, and darkness He called Night.
The light would be called Day, and it was pleasing in His sight.
That evening and that morning wouldn’t be the total sum…
No, that was just the very first day. Five were yet to come.
© 2013
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