From the Devonian era but much like today’s forests:
The fossilized roots– footprints of an ancient landscape– belonged to trees with wood and leaves, similar to what we see today, the study says.
This find was made in Cairo, about 40 miles south of Albany. Previously, scientists thought a fossilized forest in Gilboa, New York, was the earliest, but the one in Cairo is two or three million years older and dramatically different…
The discovery provides a snapshot of one of the planet’s great transitional periods, between an earth with no forests and an earth that’s covered in forests, Berry said.
Kelly Murray, “The world’s oldest known fossil forest has been discovered in a quarry in upper New York state” at CNN
Funny the way those sudden transitions occur, just as if they were spring loaded or something… Nah, can’t be. At all costs, true science must stick to the the Darwinian claim:
It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, wherever and whenever opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life.
… even when it is manifestly not plausible. Ah, the sacrifices people make for science…
Here’s the paper in Current Biology. (open access)
More soon.
Sudden emergence. Then stasis.
That’s a lie. No transition is shown at all.
That’s the “science”. It’s embarrassing.
Exactly. It’s amazing that anyone can believe it.
That’s it. They’ll sacrifice their own integrity, honor, self-respect, honesty.
This video shows how plants appeared and evolved:
https://youtu.be/pFaBpVoQD4E
PavelU,
It does nothing of the sort. Your video merely gives an overview of photosynthesis.
And furthermore PavelU, If you are looking for ANY evidence that Darwinian evolution could possibly be true, Photosynthesis is certainly NOT your friend:
Moreover, these elaborate molecular machines that convert sunlight into energy, put to shame man-made photovoltaic cells in terms of efficiency.
Thus once again, PavelU, the video you cited DID NOT support the claim you made for it, but it turns out that the evidence that YOU YOURSELF cited directly contradicted the claim that you made for it.
In fact, it is hard to fathom a piece of evidence that is more antagonistic to the Darwinian claim that plants gradually evolved than photosynthesis itself is. And yet here you are citing it as if it was not directly contradictory to the claim you made for it.
All this would be comical save for the fact that it is sad to think that you could possibly be so dense.
You must be some kind of reverse troll. i.e. an ID advocate posing as a Darwinian troll, Nobody with the God given capacity to write language could possibly be as dense as you are pretending to be.
PavelU
Beautiful video. If that shows the evolutionary origin of plants then there is absolutely nothing to that idea. The functional complexity of photosynthesis alone, not to mention the structure of leaves, stems and roots and the power of an oxygen-producing organism – all argue against the blind watchmaker.
BA77,
That’s an interesting possibility, but I think that poor guy doesn’t seem to possess any capacity to read or write well.
He hasn’t written much here, just links to papers or videos.
I would not make him a unique case, because he does what many people do out there: superficial interpretation of any text they read. I used to do the same until not so long ago too.
Another possibility is that PavelU is just an avatar for an AI system used by somebody to generate comments to be posted online.