- Series:Plants, Transcript English
Genesis 1:11
“And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.”
The next time you enjoy a vanilla ice cream cone, keep in mind that vanilla wouldn’t even exist if evolution were true. Evolutionists don’t have a blooming idea about the origin of a special symbiotic relationship between a particular flower and a very special bee.
You see, vanilla comes from the vanilla planifolia plant which develops into the Mexican vanilla orchid. Unlike most orchids, this one blooms only one morning each year. The orchid also has a hood-like membrane that covers the part that produces pollen. These two facts make pollination almost impossible.
But the God who created this plant also created the Mexican Melipona Bee – the only insect that knows how to pollinate the orchid. After landing on the flower, the bee lifts up the hood, collects the pollen and then flies off to another flower. Once pollinated, the orchid produces a vanilla bean. If not pollinated within eight to twelve hours, the flower wilts and drops from the mother vine.
Without the Mexican Melipona Bee, you wouldn’t be able to enjoy any of the delicious foods made with vanilla extract. So we would ask evolutionists – which came first: the orchid or the bee? And how did the bee learn to pollinate the vanilla orchid?
At best, evolutionists can only offer guesses. But creationists know that the bee and the flower are a match made in heaven. They enjoy a symbiotic relationship so that each can survive … and so we can enjoy the fruit of their labor!
Prayer: Father, thank you for filling our planet with so many foods that not only nourish us but bring us pleasure. In Jesus Name. Amen.
Author: Steven J. Schwartz
Ref: http://bpsfuelforthought.wordpress.com/2014/01/28/vanilla-ice-cream-defies-evolution/. “Vanilla Ice Cream Defies Evolution.” B. Petrillo, 1/28/14. http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/s2009/ruud_kirs/Life History – Reproduction.htm. Illustration: Cross section of the vanilla orchid. Courtesy of B.navez. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
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