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>Kurt Wise, educated in paleontology at Harvard University, is one of the most creative thinkers in the modern creationist movement. He noted that the sequence of plants in the fossil record was exactly what evolution would predict. Plants began at their shortest and least complex and gradually became taller and more complex. He noted, however, that the order of plant fossils also described an order of plants which lived in the sea to plants that lived in the land. Asking whether any such ecological order was present in the modern world, he realized that this order is exactly what one finds in “quaking bogs.” A quaking bog is a small, floating mat of plants which becomes thicker as one moves towards the center. In the center, one finds trees which actually grow on this mat and whose roots extend into the water. The roots, therefore, are not deep, but extend below the mat and expand outwards. What Kurt Wise discovered is that the order of plants in the fossil record reveals that before the Flood, there was a massive quaking bog the size of a continent, which Wise calls the “floating forest.” Indeed, the trees that one finds in the fossil record are actually hollow, which made them lighter and more able to float on this large mat. While hollow trees are extinct today, other sorts of hollow plants have survived in quaking bogs. Furthermore, the well-known “fish-with-legs” fossils are found in this context. These appear to be, not evolutionary transitions, but animals which lived on the floating forest and were therefore capable of walking around on the plant mat and swimming below its surface.
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