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The tale of how plants became meat eaters

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This happened, even though there is supposed to be no intelligence in nature:

About 70 million years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, a genetic anomaly allowed some plants to turn into meat eaters. This was done in part, with a stealthy trick: repurposing genes meant for their roots and leaves and using them instead to catch prey, a new study finds.

Diane Lincoln, “Here’s how plants became meat eaters” at LiveScience

Paper. (open access)

Did Michael Behe ever claim anything as exotic as this? Isn’t Darwin’s house collapsing?