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DARWINISM REFUTED

This fossil fern from the
Carboniferous was found in
the Jerada region of
Morocco. The
interesting thing is
that this fossil,
which is 320
million years old,
is identical to
present-day
ferns.

"transitional form" behind it in the fossil record. This was realised in the
nineteenth century, and for this reason Darwin described the origin of
angiosperms as "an abominable mystery." All the research carried out
since Darwin's time has simply added to the amount of discomfort this
mystery causes. In his book The Paleobiology of Angiosperm Origins, the
evolutionary paleobotanist N. F. Hughes makes this admission:
… With few exceptions of detail, however, the failure to find a satisfactory
explanation has persisted, and many botanists have concluded that the
problem is not capable of solution, by use of fossil evidence. 339
In his book The Evolution of Flowering Plants, Daniel Axelrod says this
about the origin of flowering plants,

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. 340
All this leads us to just one conclusion: Like all living things, plants
were also created. From the moment they first emerged, all their
mechanisms have existed in a finished and complete form. Terms such as
'development over time," "changes dependent on coincidences," and
"adaptations which emerged as a result of need," which one finds in the
evolutionist literature, have no truth in them at all and are scientifically
meaningless.

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