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Harun Yahya

This 140-million-year-old fossil from the
species Archaefructus is the oldest known fos-
sil angiosperm (flowering plant). It possesses
the same body, flower and fruit structure as
similar plants alive today.
This 300-million-year-
old plant from the late
Carboniferous is no dif-
ferent from specimens
growing today.

This plant from the
Jurassic Age, some
180 million years old,
emerged with its own
unique structure, and
with no ancestor pre-
ceding it.

and starch) by carbon dioxide, which dissolves in the water. For this reason, there is nothing the algae lack in
the ocean, and therefore no reason for them to move to the land, where there is no "selective advantage" for
them, as the evolutionists put it.
All of this shows that the evolutionist hypothesis that algae emerged onto the land and formed land
plants is completely unscientific.

The Origin of Angiosperms

When we examine the fossil history and structural features of plants that live on land, another picture

emerges which fails to agree with evolutionist predictions. There is no fossil series to confirm even one
branch of the "evolutionary tree" of plants that you will see in almost any biological textbook. Most plants
possess abundant remains in the fossil record, but none of these fossils is an intermediate form between one
species and another. They are all specially and originally created as completely distinct species, and there are
no evolutionary links between them. As the evolutionary paleontologist E. C. Olson accepted, "Many new
groups of plants and animals suddenly appear, apparently without any close ancestors." 307

The botanist Chester A. Arnold, who studies fossil plants at the University of Michigan, makes the fol-
lowing comment:

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