Page 154 - Confessions of the Evolutionists

152 CONFESSIONS OF THE EVOLUTIONISTS

Chester Arthur Arnold is professor emeritus of botany at The

University of Michigan:
As yet we have not been able to trace the phylogenetic history of a single
group of modern plants from its beginning to the present. 379
It has long been hoped that extinct plants will ultimately reveal some of
the stages through which existing groups have passed during the course
of their development, but it must be freely admitted that this aspiration
has been fulfilled to a very slight extent, even though paleobotanical re-
search has been in progress for more than one hundred years. 380
[W]e have not been able to track the phylogenetic history of a single
group of modern plants from its beginning to the present. 381
Not only are plant evolutionists at a loss to explain the seemingly abrupt
rise of the flowering plants to a place of dominance, but their origin is
likewise a mystery. 382
Dr. Eldred Corner is professor of botany at Cambridge University:
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 evo-
lution. Can you imagine how an orchid, a duckweed, and a palm have
come from the same ancestry, and have we any evidence for this assump-
tion? The evolutionist must be prepared with an answer, but I think that
most would break down before an inquisition. 383

Edmund J. Ambrose, is emeritus professor at the University of
London and head of the Department of Cell Biology at the Chester
Beatty Research Institute at the University of London:
At the present stage of geological research, we have to admit that there is
nothing in the geological records that runs contrary to the view of con-
servative creationists, that God created each species separately... 384
From Science News:
Both blue-green algae and bacteria fossils dating back 3.4 billion years
have been found in rocks from South Africa. Even more intriguing, the
pleurocapsalean algae turned out to be almost identical to modern pleu-
rocapsalean algae at the family and possibly at the generic level. 385