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THE MIRACLE IN THE SEED

lupine seeds have been discovered that have waited in fissures in rocks
hundreds of years without germinating or rotting. 47
Since the seed has undergone certain changes as though aware of
events in the external environment, how can it, from under the earth,
get information about the outside world? Can a seed be aware of what
is happening above ground, enough to predict the weather? A mecha-
nism in the seed informs it of the situation, and the seed suddenly
stops developing, responds as though it has received an order from
somewhere. How has this system come into existence? Has the plant
thought it up and developed the necessary technical systems in itself?
Obviously no plant is capable of acquiring such a talent. From the
moment the plant first appeared, this talent was already coded in the
genetic information inside the seed. Due to this genetic coding, the
lupine can arrest its development when it encounters cold weather, but
it’s not possible for a plant cell to develop such coding of information
of its own accord. However long the development process suggested
by evolutionists may last, no matter what events occur in this process,
plants cannot develop a system to alert them to weather conditions.

Examples of Other Plant Species
In an 1879 scientific experiment conducted at Michigan State
University, the seeds of various species were put in jars and buried.
Periodically attempts were made to get them to germinate. In the
1980s, more than a century after these trials, some of the seeds still ger-
minated. A separate 1978 study made in Denmark witnessed the ger-
mination of dormant seeds excavated from an 850-year-old grave
site. 48
Similarly, seeds of Mimosa glomerata that had been kept in dry
storage in a herbarium for 220 years, germinated as soon as they were
soaked in water. Another example of resilient seeds are those of Albizia
julibrissin. Stored in the British Museum herbarium in London, the 147-
year-old seeds germinated in 1942, during the Second World War,