And That Is What Happened

Mangroves are tropical trees that grow in wetlands between land and sea. Their roots filter out the salt from the water. The salt crystals are taken up by the roots and stored in the leaves. When the tree sheds its leaves, it rids itself from the salt.

Mangrove trees are very important because they protect the coastline and prevent erosion.

These trees look as if they grow on stilts because their roots hold the trunk and leaves above the water line.

Mangrove seeds germinate and grown into seedlings on the tree. When the tree drops its seedlings, they take root in the mud below, or are swept out by the tide where they take root far away from its parent tree like the ones below.

The world is indeed filled with all sorts of seed-bearing plants and trees! Creation as described in Genesis 1 is what truly happened.

"Then God said, 'Let the land sprout with vegetation----

every sort of seed-bearing plant,

and trees that grow seed-bearing fruit.

These seeds will then produce the kinds of plants and trees

from which they came.'

And that is what happened.

The land produced vegetation---

all sorts of seed-bearing plants,

and trees with seed-bearing fruit.

Their seeds produced plants and trees of the same kind.

And God saw that it was good."

Genesis 1:11-12 (NLT)