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Flytrap Origins: A Sticky Problem for Evolution
ICR ^ | August 14, 2009 | Brian Thomas, M.S.

Posted on 08/17/2009 7:10:02 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts

Venus flytraps are carnivorous plants. They have delicate, yet precisely engineered, trigger-activated leaves that can snap shut on insects in less than one third of a second. Their origin has baffled evolutionary botanists...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: creation; evolution; intelligentdesign; science

1 posted on 08/17/2009 7:10:03 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: GodGunsGuts
Flytrap plant ?

Try a rat eating plant.

2 posted on 08/17/2009 7:17:16 PM PDT by 1066AD
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To: GodGunsGuts
That is not all that baffles the evolutionists.

There is a certain wasp that when it lands in front of a particular spider. The spider stops dead in its tracks and the wasp climbs (fly) on top and lays her eggs in the spider, then buries, the spider. The young hatch eat the spider and tunnel out;

Wrong spider, wasp is lunch.

How did these two evolve together or separately?

3 posted on 08/17/2009 7:19:25 PM PDT by BillT (The Gov has bankrupted my children & are now working on my grandchildren)
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To: GodGunsGuts
Flytrap plant ?

Try a rat eating plant.

4 posted on 08/17/2009 7:39:20 PM PDT by 1066AD
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To: GodGunsGuts
Their origin has baffled evolutionary botanists...

Another stawman post, there are botanists and there are botanists. I doubt that any of them are baffled. I mean after all it's only 6000 years old. LOL

5 posted on 08/17/2009 7:47:54 PM PDT by org.whodat (Vote: Chuck De Vore in 2012.)
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To: 1066AD

Wow, that’s amazing! It’s kind of like a natural toiletbowl with chemicals that slowly eats whatever falls in. Thanks for the link!


6 posted on 08/17/2009 7:49:00 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: org.whodat

==I mean after all it’s only 6000 years old.

When you’re right, your right! d:op


7 posted on 08/17/2009 7:54:59 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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Venus flytrap origins uncovered
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Posted on 07/21/2009 10:52:41 PM PDT by JoeProBono
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2298048/posts


8 posted on 08/17/2009 8:04:40 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: GodGunsGuts
The flytrap is possibly non-indigenous (extra-terrestrial). It is found in the wild only within a 60-mile radius of a meteorite crater near Wilmington, SC. Unlikely, but possible.

9 posted on 08/17/2009 8:06:42 PM PDT by Spirochete (Texas is an anagram for Taxes)
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bring on the evolutionism just-so stories, followed by the requisite, “you just dont understand science”, etc etc....


10 posted on 08/17/2009 8:20:38 PM PDT by raygunfan
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To: GodGunsGuts

Feed me Seymor, feed me all night long.

When will Brian Thomas BS ever do an experiment?


11 posted on 08/17/2009 8:27:59 PM PDT by Wacka
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To: Wacka

He’s a published scientist, has taught science at the university level, and he’s a fine writer. In fact, he’s one of the best science writers around when it comes to writing for the layman. That’s one of the reasons why I post Brian Thomas, M.S. so much, because he’s so easy to understand.

PS Thanks for sharing your compliment of Brian Thomas, M.S. with me. I know you don’t consider it a compliment, but I do, so thanks a bunch.


12 posted on 08/17/2009 8:34:19 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: GodGunsGuts

He got a paper or two in grad school, was a TA and doesn’t write anything original. He finds a legitimate paper, summarizes it and than slaps on a paragraph that basically states “It’s so complicated that God must have done it.”

If I wanted to prostitute myself to the Crevos, I could churn out several of these a day.


13 posted on 08/17/2009 10:45:48 PM PDT by Wacka
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To: GodGunsGuts
In fact, he’s one of the best science writers around when it comes to writing for the layman.

Now that's funny.

14 posted on 08/17/2009 11:55:53 PM PDT by Ha Ha Thats Very Logical
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To: Spirochete

15 posted on 08/18/2009 1:29:27 AM PDT by anymouse (God didn't write this sitcom we call life, he's just the critic.)
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To: Ha Ha Thats Very Logical; Wacka; GodGunsGuts

GGG: “In fact, [Brian Thomas, BS is] one of the best science writers around when it comes to writing for the layman.

HHTVL: “Now that’s funny.”

Seriously. At least once a day I really think GGG is simply a kid playing a joke on us all.


16 posted on 08/19/2009 11:47:25 AM PDT by whattajoke (.)
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To: whattajoke

The joke is being played on yourself. I thought you realized this, given your choice of screennames.


17 posted on 08/19/2009 11:51:49 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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