The Talk.Origins Archive: Exploring the Creation/Evolution Controversy
Index to Creationist Claims,
edited by Mark Isaak, Copyright © 2004
Claim CC251:
Evolutionists claim that conifers are descended from a group of plants
called progymnosperms. But there is no evidence that progymnosperms ever
existed.
Source:
Response:
- Progymnosperms are not hypothetical. They are an important group of
fossil plants, now extinct, which include the earliest trees
(Meyer-Berthaud et al. 1999). Creationists can choose to believe that
progymnosperms are not transitional forms, but they certainly existed.
Links:
Arens, N. C., 1998. Progymnosperms.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/IB181/VPL/Osp/Osp2.html
Speer, B. R. and Nan Crystal Arens, 1996. Introduction to the
progymnosperms.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/seedplants/progymnosperms.html
References:
- Meyer-Berthaud, B., S. E. Scheckler and J. Wendt. 1999.
Archaeopteris is the earliest known modern tree. Nature 398:
700-701.
Further Reading:
Scheckler, S. E. 1999. Progymnosperms. In:
Encyclopedia of
Paleontology, R. Singer, ed., Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publ., vol 2,
pp. 992-995.
created 2003年10月7日