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Redbud Leaf
Period: Eocene
Age: 50 million years
Region: Cache Creek Formation, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
In terms of both general structure, and also when examined microbiologically, leaves can be
seen to have highly detailed and complex systems planned in every way in order to provide
the greatest energy production possible. In order to be able to manufacture energy, the leaf ne-
eds to receive heat and carbon dioxide from the external environment. All the structures in lea-
ves are arranged in order that these two elements can easily be obtained. For example, leaves
have broad surfaces and this facilitates the exchanges of gas necessary for photosynthesis (pro-
cesses such as the absorption of carbon dioxide and the emission of oxygen).
All plant leaves have had these features since the moment they first came into being and none
has ever acquired them as the result of blind chance. Allah has created them with great wis-
dom, together with their wondrous properties.
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