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HONEYSUCKLE LEAF
Age: 58 million years
Period: Paleocene
Location: Sentinel Butte Formation, Central North Dakota, USA
The first person to admit that the scenario of plants' evolution was in a quagmire was Charles
Darwin himself. As he wrote in an 1881 letter to botanist Sir Joseph Hooker of Kew Gardens:
Nothing is more extraordinary in the history of the vegetable kingdom [according to the scientific
classification], as it seems to me, than the apparently very sudden and abrupt development of the
higher plants.
These words are Darwin's admission that the plants' origins could not be explained by evolu-
tion and that—like all other living organisms, plants were also created by God.
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