Creation Moments

Jonathan Cotton: Can a tree have a nervous breakdown? Find out next on today's Creation Moment. And now, here's our Creation Moment host, Ian Taylor.

Ian T. Taylor: Is it silly to speak of plants anticipating a good watering? Or is it naive to think of a plant anticipating spring? Scientists are learning that although plants do not have a nervous system, they do use electrical signals to respond to their surroundings. And sometimes they respond just like human beings. Most of us are familiar with the Venus flytrap that responds very quickly when the trigger hairs are touched. Other plants are sensitive and close their leaflets when touched. And one mimosa tree was so disturbed by its keeper that it shed all its leaves, seemingly, as one writer put it, having a nervous breakdown.

Well, tomato plants will wilt to conserve water, but if they are overly disturbed, they will wilt even though they don't need to conserve water through electrical signals in a similar way to our nervous systems. Such responses are very unexpected in what evolutionists consider as simple plants. However, if we see the creation as the work of a caring creator who endowed all of his creation with its own form of emotional sense, then even these limited plant responses are not unreasonable reflections of their creator. The fact that we can recognize emotional response will hopefully enable us to see the importance of his love.

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