The Imaginary Family Tree of Plant |
As we come to the last act in the evolution scenario, we meet the imaginary evolutionary tree which lies behind all the impossibilities and illogicalities we have seen so far. Plants are divided by evolutionists into 29 classes, and into groups, and into ancestor-descendant relationships. It is claimed that every group evolved from another one, and that bacteria are the common ancestors of all. Flowers, trees and fruits, in their many colours, are the final branches of this tree.
There is one very interesting side to all this. There is not one series of fossils to prove the authenticity of even one branch of this evolutionary tree that you will see in almost any biology book. There are perfect fossil records of many living things in the world, but none of them possess the feature of being an intermediate form between one species and another. They are all completely different species, specially and originally created within themselves, and have no evolutionary link between them. About the problems besetting this issue, evolutionists express their views as follows:
Daniel Axelrod says, in his book Evolution of the Psilophyte Paleoflora:It seems clear that our phyletic charts need extensive revision.81
Chester A. Arnold was a professor at Michigan University who carried out research on fossil plants. On page 334 of his book, Introduction to Paleobotany, he says, Not only are plant evolutionists at a loss to explain the seemingly abrupt rise of the flowering plants to a place of dominance, but their origin is likewise a mystery.82
Ranganathan, another evolutionist, says in his book, B.G. Origins?:
There is simply no evidence of partially evolved animals or plants in the fossil record to indicate that evolution has occurred in the past, and certainly no evidence of partially evolved animals and plants existing today to indicate that evolution is occurring at the present.83
Chester A. Arnold states the following in his book mentioned above,
As yet we have not been able to trace the phylogenetic history of a single group of modern plants from its beginning to the present.84
In his book, The Evolution of Flowering Plants, in the Evolution Life, Daniel Axelrod says,
The ancestral group that gave rise to angiosperms has not yet been identified in the fossil record, and no living angiosperm points to such an ancestral alliance.85
An article titled "Ancient Alga Fossil Most Complex Yet" in the magazine, Science News, revealed that there was almost no difference between examples of what evolutionists call modern algae in our day, and algae which lived billions of years ago in this way.
Both blue-green algae and bacteria fossils dating back 3.4 billion years have been found in rocks from S. Africa. Even more intriguing, the pleurocapsalean algae turned out to be almost identical to modern pleurocapsalean algae at the family and possibly at the generic level.86
All the above statements come from the mouths of experts and all bear the same message: There is not one fossil of a plant with half-formed organs or systems: There is absolutely no evidence that one plant was the ancestor of another. For this reason, the evolutionary family trees are totally works of imagination and have no scientific foundation whatsoever. If the fossils which we possess are judged without prejudice, the Truth of Creation can be clearly seen. The evolutionist Prof. Dr. Eldred Corner of Cambridge University admits this situation in these words:
I still think that, to the unprejudiced, the fossil record of plants is in favour of special creation. If, however, another explanation could be found for this hierarchy of classification, it would be the knell of the theory of evolution. Can you imagine how an orchid, a duckweed, and a palm have come from the same ancestry, and have we any evidence for this assumption? The evolutionist must be prepared with an answer, but I think that most would break down before an inquisition 87
It is actually quite clear that, although he is an evolutionist, Edred Corner cannot refrain from making this admission. Of course, it impossible for countless varieties of plant to emerge from just one plant. All plants possess features particular to their own species. Their colours, tastes, shapes, and methods of reproduction are all different to one another. As well as these differences, plants of the same species possess the same features wherever one goes in the world. Watermelons are watermelons everywhere, their colour, taste, and smell are always the same. Roses, strawberries, carnations, plane trees, lime trees, bananas, pineapples, orchids, in short all plants of the same species possess the same features anywhere in the world. Everywhere in the world, leaves possess the mechanisms to carry out photosynthesis. It is impossible for these mechanisms to have come about by coincidence, as evolutionists claim. Bearing this is mind, to say that the same coincidences affected all parts of the world, as evolutionists do, is neither intelligent nor scientific.
All of these lead us to just one conclusion. Plants were created, just like all living things. They have possessed the same complete mechanisms since they first came to be. Terms such as, "Development over time, changes linked to coincidence, and adaptations coming about from needs," which evolutionists employ in their claims, just serve to underline their defeat. They have no scientific meaning whatsoever.
