Day five.  Here is where the fun begins.  The earth is ready.  The sea is ready,  The grass, flowers, and trees are ready.  The old dinosauric life is gone--with a some exceptions such as crocodiles, armadillos, crickets, numerous 'bugs'--just to name a few species that could live in water and damp, dark, murky places--that made it through the destruction.  Genesis 1:2 "And the earth was without form, and void: and darkness was upon the face of the deep...."

And of course,  almost all of the fish were still there.  They didn't care if the world was dark and formless.

When I worked with the dissection of birds--which sometimes swim, and fish--that sometimes fly, it was very noticeable that the fin of the fish and wing of the bird are very similar.  Their tails as well.  Neither have lungs like we do, (with a few exceptions).  So if you are a Christian Darwinist (which is an oxymoron to me),  this next verse might give you comfort.  But only on the subject of birds and fish.

Genesis 1:20  "And God said, Let (let again) the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that has life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament (sky) of heaven."

One species survived the destruction because it lived in the water, the other in the air.  Birds might have made it by nesting in floating debris.  And there was probably a lot of that.  Understand, I am giving an account of how what we know scientifically might fit into the Biblical account.

The tide--the force that now drives the motion of the oceans--is bringing creatures onto land.  Crabs, fish that prefer to lay eggs in sand and then go back to the sea.  Turtles as well.  Many creatures of the sea had no problem using both sea and land--thus providing a food source for the abundant life that is getting ready to appear in Genesis 1:21.  Sunshine and tides changed everything for these water creatures.

I absolutely love this book.