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Green River Formation, Utah, USA
POPLAR LEAF
Age: 50 million years
Period: Eocene
Location: Green River Formation, Utah, USA
The most impassable dead end in which proponents of the scenario of plant evolution find them-
selves today is the question of how the first plant cell evolved. The questions of how the first plant
could have emerged from a single cell and how thousands of species of plant emerged from that one
original plant. There is not a single intermediate-form fossil to point to the fact of such a process.
There are no primitive fossil plants with semi-developed organs and systems, and no evidence to
indicate that one plant species is the ancestor of any other. On the contrary, fossils show that every
plant species emerged individually and suddenly, each with its own particular characteristics, and
that these countless plant species have remained unchanged for so long as they have survived.
An example of one such species is this 50-million-year-old poplar leaf fossil, identical to poplar
leaves today.
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