The Underwater Side Of Evolution

Here is a vivid example of how life on earth was created by a specific purpose by God and did not originate by random evolution. It is easy to see that there is a rough equivalence between life on land and life in the sea. Both contain abundant plant life. Dolphins could be considered as the "humans" of the sea. Sharks are congruent to the predatory cats on land. Whales are the elephants of the sea.

There is one great difference that I notice. There are no trees or the equivalent of trees under the water. I have given this quite a bit of thought.

Underwater should actually be better for trees than land because there would be no opposition from gravity. Think how much easier it would be for giant redwood trees without the battle against gravity. The sea is generally much better than the land for really large life forms because water provides buoyant support. For example, whales in the sea are many times larger than elephants on land.

It is true that some sunlight will be filtered out by the water. But I reason that sea trees could more than compensate for that by the fact that could grow much bigger with the same structural strength as on land. Also since water retains heat much longer than land, sea trees would not have as much need to lie dormant for the winter in temperate climates.

Light from the sun penetrates down to about 183 meters (600 feet) of water so the continental shelves of the world would provide plenty of room for sea trees. The colors (colours) of the rainbow actually drop out one by one as we go deeper. For example, there is no red below about 30 feet because the water absorbs it first. the reason water appears blue is that it is absorbed last and is thus the color likely to get refracted back to the surface. Trees could adapt to this in the sea.

As it turns out, trees have been vital to human beings on land ever since there have been human beings. Trees have provided human beings with necessities like fruit, building and tool-making materials and fuel for burning. It is extremely difficult to imagine the development of human civilization without trees.

In addition, trees are vital to the environment on land. They bind the topsoil and prevent it from washing away in storms. They, like all plants, generate oxygen to keep animals and humans alive. Trees absorb groundwater and transpire it back into the atmosphere to prevent too much fresh water from collecting underground. And, they provide a habitat for countless animal and bird species.

So why then is there no trees in the sea where it seems, by evolutionary logic, that they should thrive? My claim is that God created life on earth to function as a whole and trees are not needed in the sea as they are on land. Sea life does not have the fingers, hands and minds to be able to use lumber or to make tools from wood. God intended humans to live on land and build civilization and he created trees to make that possible and for the other reasons given above. If life on earth arose from random evolutionary processes and took hold where it could, than there should be trees underwater.