Two Facts that Evolutionists Try to Fit

Yes, believers in Abiogenesis are 100 % believers in every creature developing from LUCA after that, so, they are Evolutionists too.

No, I id not mean "Evolutionary Biologists" (Biology for Evolutionists) or "Evolutionary Linguistics" (not-even-any-actual-Linguistics for Evolutionists). I mean Evolutionists as opposed to Creationists.*

Earth is the only known planet with plate tectonics and the only known planet with life.

Now, what would the Bible have to say on both subjects?

For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens, God himself that formed the earth, and made it, the very maker thereof: he did not create it in vain: he formed it to be inhabited. I am the Lord, and there is no other.
[Isaias (Isaiah) 45:18]

Who shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
[Job 9:6]

So, presumably, the pillars are deep "anchor parts" of tectonic plates. Could be a fluke?

And no Hebrew writing says there are trees down in the netherworld. Hell and trees only occur together in two verses of Ezechiel 31. Could be a fluke?

Luke 16 probably has the most detailed description of the netherworld, as it was before Jesus took out the souls from the Limbus Patrum and brought them to Heaven. Does not mention trees. However, some mythologies do:

The** Poplar is first and foremost a tree sacred to the Underworld.

Leuke (whose name means “white”) was a beautiful nymph who was brought to the Underworld by the god Hades. Being mortal, Leuke could not survive in the Land of the Dead and was instead transformed into a White Poplar tree. (Some say the tree still grows there, one of the few living trees to thrive in the Underworld.)

The Norse*** does this too:

According to the poem Grímnismál, Yggdrasil has three main roots: one planted in Midgard, the world of mankind; one in Jotunheim, the world of the giants; and one in Hel, the underworld.

And° Irish:

There is a salmon-inhabited well or fountain in Tír na nÓg that is found near an enormous tree or grove of nine hazels - or a lady's bower, "where bloom was on every bough, and the air heavy with the sweetness of orchards" and a lake area (perhaps Dulcinea).

While Welsh descriptions of Annwfn do not include trees, the Baltic World°° View is similar to the Norse one:

The World Tree connects the individual parts of the world into a whole. The top of the tree coincides with the sky; the trunk, with the earth; and the roots, with the underworld. Thus, respectively, luminaries, birds are in the branches of the tree, beasts and people circle around the trunk, and reptiles, fish and the like are at the roots. This is a classic diagram of the World Tree (see Usačivaitė, 1992).

But the Bible doesn't. It seems as if it were kind of saying, only Earth, and also Heavenly Jerusalem, but nothing below or inbetween, has trees. Or nothing in between except Eden, if it was transplanted to some intermediate Heaven, like a place in the atmosphere of Venus. If Henoch and Elias are there.

Now, the abundance of trees in non-Hebrew and non-Christian netherworlds seems to make this somewhat less of a fluke.

But along with pillars, not much fluke at all ... is there something similar to be said on the Evolutionist side?

While nearly all geoscientists agree with the idea that, without plate tectonics, life on Earth might be limited to primitive organisms, a small group of researchers is now suggesting that plate tectonics could have emerged even earlier — perhaps contributing to the origin of life itself by bringing minerals that support life from the planet's interior to the crust.

This is tricky territory, pushing researchers back before 4 billion years ago, into the Hadean eon. The only direct evidence of the first 500 million years of Earth's existence is the presence of zircons, minerals that survive melting at mantle temperatures and pressures. Though the rocks once containing these minerals have melted away, the zircons — which are smaller than grains of sand — remain.

OK, the minerals are supposed to support life, but they do not suffice to create it, not to provide a cell membrane, not to create chirality and order for RNA or Proteins or DNA from Amino Acids, and so on.

In other words, the clue may be a clue, for those who take this sort of dating methods more seriously than I do it, but it's not an explanation, and hardly a confirmation. For the Bible, it is also no explanation, but it is a confirmation, as if the Bible was written by someone or inspired by Someone who knew these facts.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
St. Martin
11.XI.2024

Turonis, in Gallia, natalis beati Martini, Episcopi et Confessoris; cujus vita tantis exstitit miraculis gloriosa, ut trium mortuorum suscitator esse meruerit.

NOTES:

* Did plate tectonics give rise to life? Groundbreaking new research could crack Earth's deepest mystery.
By Stephanie Pappas published 3 days ago, LiveScience
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/did-plate-tectonics-give-rise-to-life-groundbreaking-new-research-could-crack-earths-deepest-mystery

** Leuke & the Tree of Hades
https://atemplewild.com/materia-mythica/poplar#myth

*** Norse Mythology for Smart People: Yggdrasil
https://norse-mythology.org/cosmology/yggdrasil-and-the-well-of-urd/

° https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tír_na_nÓg

°° https://www.baltukelias.lt/en/editable-separated/id-415/