Rather, what Newman "knew" or should have was that history could not be reconciled with Rome's reality expect thru the specious Development of Doctrine ,” which makes a Weeping willow (Salix babylonica) tree out of an acorn.
And that's what we have here...God plants an acorn and a willow tree claims it is the final result of that acorn...And for those who don't know, an acorn produces (is the seed of) an oak tree, not the Catholic willow tree...
The epithet babylonica in this Chinese species' scientific name (S. babylonica), as well as the related common names "Babylon willow" or "Babylon weeping willow", derive from a misunderstanding by Linnaeus that this willow was the tree described in the Bible in the opening of Psalm 137 (here in Latin and English translations):
Super flumina Babylonis illic sedimus et flevimus, cum recordaremur Sion.
- In salicibus in medio ejus suspendimus organa nostra....
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
- We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salix_babylonica