“We’re a bit mystified,” said botanist Michael Donoghue. “It doesn’t appear that we can locate a close relative of the flowering plants.”
Else Marie Friis of the Swedish Museum of Natural History uses synchrotron radiation to generate a 3D image of the inner structures of fossilized plants, but admits to being unable to trace them back to a single common ancestor. “From these fossils, we cannot say what is the basic form,” she said. Gene-based attempts to find a possible ancestor have failed to identify any reasonable candidates. “The nonangiosperm ancestor just isn’t there,” lamented William Crepet of Cornell University. “I’m starting to worry that we will never know, that it transformed without intermediates.”
In the aforementioned letter to Hooker, Darwin wrote that he would
like “to see this whole problem solved”. No doubt today’s evolutionists
would too. But they’ll never
find a nonangiosperm ancestor to the flowering plants for one very
simple reason—there wasn’t any. All the various kinds of flowering
plants today descended from their own kind, just
as the Creator programmed them to do. (And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:11–12)." CMI
