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practices we still encounter today draw needs to have all its structures present
support from ideas supposedly legitimi- and fully functional. Therefore, these
zed in this way by Darwinism. structures cannot have developed in sta-
ges. All the plant fossils discovered so
far confirm that plants have displayed
Devonian Period the same flawless structures ever since
Fossilized Plants they first appeared on Earth.

(408 to 306 Million Years Old)
Fossil plants from this period have
Dino-Bird Fossil, the
many features in common with present-
day species. The stoma, cuticle, rhizoid —See Archaeoraptor liaoningensis.
and sporangia, for example, are some of
the structures evident today. 127 In or- Dipneuma
der for a land plant to survive, it needs to With the discovery of living things
protect itself against the danger of its tis- that refuted the thesis regarding the tran-
sues drying out. Cuticles are waxy layers sition from water to land, evolutionists
that cover the stem, branch and leaves clutched at other theories on the subject.
and protect the plant against desiccation. (See Coelacanth.) Some evolutionists
If a plant had no cuticles to protect it, regarded lunged fish as the ancestors of
then it would have no time to wait for all terrestrial animals. The general name
them to form, as evolutionists maintain given to these fish that are able to use
must have happened. If a plant has a cu- their lungs as well as gills is Dipneuma.
ticle, it thrives; if not, it shrivels up and There are three different species of these
dies. The distinction is as sharp as that. fish living in the seas around America,
Like the cuticle, all the structures Africa and Australia.
possessed by plants are of vital impor- Since the 1850s, it was actually tho-
tance to their survival. In order for a ught that these fish had evolved into pri-
plant to be able to live and multiply, it mitive amphibians. By the 1950s, howe-

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