A Confused Flower?

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On "Creation Moments" we regularly look at unusual plants and animals that show the unlimited inventiveness of our Creator. Unusual living things are also fascinating because, since they are clearly unrelated to any other living things, each one is a challenge to evolutionary theory, which says that every living thing is related to other living things.

Botanists recently identified a small flower in Mexico that has left them stumped. Flowers have a pistil or female flower part made up of a stigma, style and ovary, where the seeds develop. This arrangement is surrounded by male pollen producing stamens.

But the small flower they recently identified in southern Mexico has only one stamen, which is surrounded by about 50 pistils. It is so unlike any other plant that it took botanists a year to identify. Not only is the flower so unlike any other flower that it is obviously not related to any known flower, but botanists also admit that they are at a complete loss to explain the flower in evolutionary terms.

However, we don't have any problems explaining the flower, because we know from the Bible that there is no limit to God's imagination and power. And I suspect that He placed so many of these very different creatures in the creation to show modern man that life has not evolved, but was created by Him. His hope is that, seeing Him, people might want to find out about a relationship with Him through His Son Jesus Christ.