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SUMAC LEAF

Age: 50 million years

Period: Eocene

Location: Green River Formation, Utah, USA

The fossil findings that most clearly refute the idea of plant evolution are those
belonging to flowering plants. These angiosperms—to give them their biologi-
cal definition—are divided into 43 separate families, each one of which
emerges suddenly in the fossil record with no trace of any primitive "interme-
diate form" behind it.

This fact was realized in the 19th century, and Darwin described the origin of
angiosperms as "an abominable mystery". In his book Palaeobiology of
Angiosperm Origins, the evolutionist paleobotanist Norman F. Hughes makes
the following admission:

". . . the failure to find a satisfactory explanation has persisted, and many botanists

have concluded that the problem is not capable of solution, by use of fossil evi-
dence." (N. F. Hughes, Palaeobiology of Angiosperm Origins: Problems of Mesozoic Seed-
Plant Evolution, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976, pp. 1-2))

This admission means that no fossil capable of being represented as proof of

plant evolution has been found. And neither is it possible for any to be discov-
ered in the future. As the 50-million-year-old sumac fossil pictured here shows,
plants did not evolve, but were created.

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