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they were transformed, over time, into land plants and then
moved over the land. How close is this imaginary assump-
tion to reality?
To begin with, numerous factors make it impossible for
water moss to survive on land, even if we were to suppose
their transition from water to land to be true. Let’s briefly re-
view the most significant factors:
1- Risk of Withering: For a sea-dwelling plant to survive
on land, its surface needs to be protected against excessive
water loss or else it will wither. To avoid withering, land-
dwelling plants are equipped with special systems that are
very complex. It is simply impossible to state that such a
precise system came into being by chance. A plant cannot
wait for millions of years for this system to develop itself,
because its absence causes the plant to wither, decay, and
die. Moreover, these very special systems are too complex to
have been developed by chance, no matter how many mil-
lions or billions of years have passed.
2- Nourishment: Sea plants take the water and minerals
they need directly from the surrounding water. Therefore,
water moss will experience problems when looking for
nourishment when it tries to live on land. It cannot survive if
this problem is not solved quickly.
3- Reproduction: Water moss cannot reproduce during
its brief lifetime on land, because just as it does for all other
tasks, it uses water to distribute its reproductive cells.
4- Avoiding oxygen’s destructive effect: Water moss
used to take in oxygen dissolved in water. Yet according to
the evolutionists’ claim, once it began to live on land, it
should have developed an entirely new way of taking in
oxygen: directly from the air. Scientists have shown that
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