Mosses, Lycopods, Sphenopsids

So the Light of Israel will be for a fire, And his Holy One for a flame; It will burn and devour His thorns and his briers in one day. And it will consume the glory of his forest and of his fruitful field, Both soul and body; And they will be as when a sick man wastes away.

(Isaiah 10:17-18) NKJV

“Mosses, lycopods, sphenopsids, ferns, seed ferns and cordaites.” The next part of the description we have of the Pennsylvanian is a laundry list of plant kinds which sounds like an ecosystem or habitat, not a period of time.

Most of the plant kinds listed are alive today, or there are species alive within the same taxonomic genus, family or order. In some cases the tree-form of the kind was extincted by Noah’s flood while the herbaceous forms survived.

What’s most clearly evident is that the fossils are the remains of a diverse plant community which was buried in a catastrophic event. We have to begin to wonder, are the descriptions given us by Wilson N. Stewart a small thermal exhaust port in the Death Star of popular science (SciPop)?

Pennsylvanian – Navigation

Section	Title	Scripture
1	Pennsylvanian	Romans 12:21
	Uniformly Warm, Humid Climates	Genesis 7:17
	Further Intrusion of Epicontinental Seas	Genesis 7:24
2	Formation of the Great Coal Swamps	Matthew 7:1
	Catastrophically Buried Middle Pennsylvanian Sigillaria and Calamitean Sphenopsids from Indiana, USA: What Kind of Vegetation Was This?	(Further reading)
	Mosses, Lycopods, Sphenopsids	Isaiah 10:17-18
3	The Origin of Abundant Diversification	Isaiah 5:20
	Salvation	Romans 10:9-10

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