Delaying the Evolution of Flowering Plants

Well, according to the Bible, God created all kinds of plants on the third day of creation, including those that bloom as well as gymnosperms (like green trees). However, the evolution model is not very clear. Evolutionists remain uncertain when angiosperms (flowering plants) arose.

At first, they did not believe that flowering plants and dinosaurs lived together. However, fossils, especially pollen fossils, began to push more flowering plants back into the imaginary millions of years of history that evolution needs to survive. According to a Conversation article, written by a doctoral student in paleontology, flowers may have coexisted with dinosaurs.

Of course we know, biblically, that what we call dinosaurs today were made on the sixth day and that therefore, as long as dinosaurs were alive, they lived alongside flowering plants.

Of course we know, biblically, that what we call dinosaurs today were made on the sixth day and that therefore, as long as dinosaurs were alive, they lived alongside flowering plants. However, there is considerable debate among evolutionists as to exactly when flowering plants first appeared. The timing of the evolution of flowering plants is still a matter of debate among scientists, but most scientists are in one of two camps: Jurassic (allegedly 201-140 MYA) or Cretaceous (140-66 MYA). Surprisingly, the best pollinator, the bee, is not thought to have evolved until 120 MYA, so this seems (from an evolutionary perspective) to force flowering plants not to have appeared until the Cretaceous.

Bad Time

One way evolutionists try to determine the age of angiosperms is by using something called a molecular clock. A molecular clock uses DNA sequences to see how two species are related. According to the idea of ​​a molecular clock, since mutations occur at the same rate over time, we can determine how long two organisms are separated by counting the number of genes—as long as we know the rate of mutation.

To use a molecular clock, you have to make some assumptions. The first assumption is that the two species you are comparing are related. For evolutionists, this is not a problem as they think that all life is interconnected. Since they are wrong about that, most of their molecular clock results are wrong.

Assuming that the first assumption is met, there is still the assumption that rates of change are constant through time. That may or may not be true, and there is certainly no way to measure the rate of evolution of an extinct plant, said to be sixty million years old. Furthermore, it assumes that the mutation rate is the same throughout the genome. We know this is false in humans, as humans have prominent mutation sites where mutations occur more often than expected. It is possible that plants can have similar temperature zones.

Despite the disadvantages of molecular clocks, evolutionists have used them to measure when angiosperms and gymnosperms, the closest relatives of angiosperms, diverged from each other. This date is important to evolutionists because it represents the probable origin of the first angiosperms and therefore the first flowers.

There are other methods that are used to try to find out when the first flowers appeared. The Conversation magazine mentions a method called the Bayesian Brownian Bridge: “This statistical model is a scientific formula that uses the distribution of fossils through time to estimate the age of a group.” The potential problem here is statistical methods are only as good as the data you feed them. If you feed them evolutionary data, you’ll get “results” of sloppy evolution in return. Which is exactly what happened in the study The Conversation cites, which, they claim, shows flowers emerged at approximately the same time as dinosaurs during the Jurassic, which is contrary to the supposed origin of bees during the Cretaceous.

When you start from the solid foundation of God’s Word, explaining the nature of flowers and flowering plants in general becomes easier.

There is a Book

From a biblical perspective, we know that God He made flowers and types of flowering plants (including types of fruits and vegetables) before the dinosaurs, so them evolution-bias analysis is incorrect. Flowering plants actually predate the dinosaurs. . . although only for three days (Genesis 1:11-13, 1:24-25). And God made pollination of flowers (mainly winged insects, birds and bats) on the fifth day of creation week. When you start from the solid foundation of the Word of Godexplaining the nature of flowers and flowering plants in general becomes easier.

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