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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

same time, they can absorb the sunlight by means of photosynthesis and
make their own carbohydrates (sugar and starch) by carbon dioxide, which
dissolves in the water. For this reason, there is nothing the algae lack in the
ocean, and therefore no reason for them to move to the land, where there is
no "selective advantage" for them, as the evolutionists put it.
All of this shows that the evolutionist hypothesis that algae emerged
onto the land and formed land plants is completely unscientific.

The Origin of Angiosperms

When we examine the fossil history and structural features of plants
that live on land, another picture emerges which fails to agree with
evolutionist predictions. There is no fossil series to confirm even one
branch of the "evolutionary tree" of plants that you will see in almost any
biological textbook. Most plants possess abundant remains in the fossil
record, but none of these fossils is an intermediate form between one
species and another. They are all specially and originally created as
completely distinct species, and there are no evolutionary links between
them. As the evolutionary paleontologist E. C. Olson accepted, "Many new
groups of plants and animals suddenly appear, apparently without any
close ancestors." 336
The botanist Chester A. Arnold, who studies fossil plants at the
University of Michigan, makes the following comment:
It has long been hoped that extinct plants will ultimately reveal some of the
stages through which existing groups have passed during the course of their
development, but it must be freely admitted that this aspiration has been
fulfilled to a very slight extent, even though paleobotanical research has been
in progress for more than one hundred years. 337
Arnold accepts that paleobotany (the science of plant fossils) has
produced no results in support of evolution: "[W]e have not been able to
track the phylogenetic history of a single group of modern plants from its
beginning to the present." 338
The fossil discoveries which most clearly deny the claims of plant
evolution are those of flowering plants, or "angiosperms," to give them
their scientific name. These plants are divided into 43 separate families,
each one of which emerges suddenly, leaving no trace of any primitive

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