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and specific conditions are met. To put it own perfect systems.
another way, living things can only exist Evolutionists sought to avoid this di-
in an environment specially created for lemma by giving it a name suggestive of
them. The Earth is an environment speci- evolution, describing it as the “evolutio-
ally created by our Lord, and all its deta- nary explosion.” But of course, that des-
ils reveal God’s mercy on us. cription only shows that evolutionists ha-
ve no explanation to offer on this subject.
Plants were performing photosynthe-
Carboniferous-Era Plant sis millions of years ago, just as they do
Fossils today. Even then, they possessed hydrau-
(Between 360 and 286 Milli- lic systems powerful enough to crack
on Years Old) stone, pumps capable of raising water
absorbed from the soil to many meters in
The most important characteristic of
height, and chemical factories producing
the Carboniferous Period is the enormo-
foodstuffs for living things. This shows
us variety of plant fossils belonging to it. that plants were created millions of years
There is no difference between fossils ago. Their creator, God, Lord of the
belonging to this period and plant speci- Worlds, continues to create them today.
es alive today. This variety, which appe- It is impossible for human beings see-
ars suddenly in the fossil record, repre- king to understand the miracles of creati-
sents a major dilemma for evolutionists, on in plants, even using the most advan-
because each of these plant species ap- ced means provided by present-day tech-
peared suddenly on Earth, each with its nology, to create a single plant from not-

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