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PALM LEAF

Age: 300 million years

Period: Carboniferous
Location: Liberty, Washington, USA

The theory of evolution's inability to explain the origins of plants is also confessed by evolutionists
themselves. For instance, Eldred Corner, a professor in the Botanic Department of Cambridge
University, expresses that fossils support not the evolution of plants, but the fact of Creation:

I still think that, to the unprejudiced, the fossil record of plants is in favour of special creation. If, however,

another explanation could be found for this hierarchy of classification, it would be the knell of the theory of
evolution. Can you imagine how an orchid, a duckweed, and a palm have come from the same ancestry, and
have we any evidence for this assumption? The evolutionist must be prepared with an answer, but I think
that most would break down before an inquisition. (Dr. Eldred Corner, Evolution in Contemporary Botanical

Thought, Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1961, p. 97.)

As Corner also states, fossil findings reveal that plants have not originated from a common, imagi-
nary ancestor but were created individually with all the features they currently possess. One of the
fossils displaying this fact is the 300-million-year-old palm fossil pictured. Palms have remained the

same for hundreds of millions of years, which stresses the baseless nature of the theory of evolution.

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