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SPURGE LEAF
Age: 50 million years
Period: Eocene
Location: Green River Formation, Utah, USA
In his article The Evolution of Flowering Plants, the paleob-
otanist Daniel Axelrod makes the following comment on
the origin of flowering plants:
"The ancestral group that gave rise to angiosperms has not
yet been identified in the fossil record, and no living an-
giosperm points to such an ancestral alliance." (D. I.
Axelrod, "The Evolution of Flowering Plants," in Evolution
After Darwin: Vol. 1: The Evolution of Life, ed. S. Tax, Chicago,
IL: University of Chicago Press, 1960, pp. 264-274)
As you can see from his admission, fossil research over
the last 150 years or so has failed to produce even a single
fossil that can be construed as the ancestor of flowering
plants. This refutes the Darwinist claim that plants de-
scended from one another by undergoing very small
changes over very lengthy periods of time.
As the 50-million-year-old spurge leaf pictured here
shows, plants have never changed despite the intervening
tens of millions of years. In other words, they never
evolved.
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