Page 111 - The Miracle In The Seed

Germination: The Vital Phase

As the shoot breaks through the seed coat, it accomplishes a very difficult task.
A soft little shoot has no problem bursting free from the confines of the tough
seed coat of a cherry or hazelnut, that we can manage to break only with a hard
blow. The task is made easier by such factors as the softening of the seed coat
when the seed takes in water and increased pressure inside the seed. It is God
Who creates them together with these features.

and its roots extend into the ground and its branches into the air, its in-
ternal systems (alimentary, pollination, the hormones that regulate
and halt the plant’s growth) all operate simultaneously, with no hitch
or delay in any of them. Everything the plant needs develops at the
same time – a very important detail. For instance, while the plant’s pol-
lination system is developing, so is its distribution network of nutrient
and water channels. Otherwise, if a tree’s pollination system failed to
develop, its inner bark used to carry water and nutrients would have
no significance. And there would also be no point in the roots’ devel-
opment, since the ancillary mechanisms would have no function given
that the species would not survive.
However, there are no such hitches. Everything develops just the
way it should, and at the time it should.
There is an evident plan behind this perfect structure of plants, all