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Originally Posted by zeek
Your point about dust vs. dirt I regard as trivial quibbling.
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The distinction is simple. There was rock and Earth prior to life. We had minerals. We had oceans, water, ice, wind, and other forces of nature.
Dust does not imply simple elements, but microscopic life.
Soil is also something distinct and more complicated still. Soil has three basic zones, the first is weathered rock which could refer to the Earth before there was life. The top zone refers to decomposed organic matter which obviously has to include the concept of life. The middle zone is a mixing of the two layers.
So the theory of evolution does not include the theory on how life was first formed, which is based on chemistry, not genetics. So the theory of evolution is how a single cell organism becomes multicellular and ever more complex.
Therefore if something is sitting upon the Earth, especially after we already have life on the planet, then we know this thing is composed of billions of microscopic bacteria and other forms of life per teaspoon. The mention of
"dust" cannot possibly be referring to weathered rock. Dirt is a very vague term, but the humble particles sitting on top of the ground is not vague. Once we had all the other beasts described in Genesis these humble particles had to include microscopic life.
Dirt is an all inclusive term and is very vague. For example, what does "dirty" mean? Is sand dirt? Is mulch dirt? Is a cow patty dirt?
But if I am referring to any and all tiny particles sitting upon the ground, these particles regardless of the origin (sand, organic remains, excrement, etc) will be home to millions of microscopic organisms.