Friday, November 23, 2007

Design- The Corkscrew Plant

Here is a carnivorous plant I never heard of before. You really need to see a picture and since I can’t post one on the article, click on the link to follow what is written.

The corkscrew is a flesh eating plant I had never heard of. There are 20 species of corkscrew plants and the large aquatic ones can catch and eat lobsters and eels. Others live in bog-like areas. To understand how they do this, we must first examine their structure.
The Corkscrew plant is in the shape of an upside down Y. Before it branches off, the stem contains a digestive chamber called the utricle. Below this is a hollow tube dividing into two branches. These two branches are spiral shaped with intricate, curved hairs along them.
A sea creature in the murky water gets into this spiral and proceeds naively upward. The hairs keep it from escaping through the side or from backtracking. When it reaches the crotch, the victim proceeds into the hollow tube and finally into the uticle which produces enzymes to digest the creature. Thus, once a creature is in the trap, there is no way out. It is doomed. (Can you draw spiritual parallels to Satan’s traps?)
If evolution were true, such creatures would have starved before animals even evolved. Further, how could anyone account for the corkscrew’s successful method of capture without it being fully functional from the beginning? The evident design and effectiveness of this plant’s mechanism declares that it was planned by intelligence. That Intelligent Person is the Lord Jesus Christ. (Heb. 1:2; 11:3)
Pictures from http://www.sarracenia.com/faq/faq5320.html

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