EVIDENCE FOR EVOLUTION

The leaf silhouettes in the picture on this page are taken from my garden. The one on the left is from a white mulberry tree. The leaf on the right is from a fig tree. Botanists tell us that the two plants are related to each other. It is not hard to see why. Half the mulberry leaf resembles a figleaf. Why is this? Is the mulberry  turning into a fig? Or did the fig, sometime long ago, turn into a mulberry? Perhaps the mulberry likes to remember when it was a fig? A study of the leaves' genetic structure would confirm that they are, indeed, close kin. While Creationists are unable to accept the idea of Evolution, I can. It is clear to me that all living things are related to each other. Human beings, too, are related to plants.

Photograph by Balthazaar  © 2000

Even the sperm cells (pollen) of many plants smell identical to human semen. Sperm scent can be found, for example, in the blossoms of Carob (Ceratonia siliqua), Spanish Chestnut (Castanea sativa), Chinese Photinia (Photinia serrulata), and Berberis thunbergii "Atropurpurea". Read more on plant sexuality in "The Secret Life of Plants" by Tompkins and Bird (Harper Collins 1989).

Since writing the above I have heard by-word-of-mouse that the following fritillaries are all sperm scented: Fritillaria graeca gussichiae, Fritillaria karadaghensis, and Fritillaria michalovskyi.
 
 

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