Creation Moments

Mark W. Cadwallader: What kind of plants can have three million children? The answer is next on today's Creation Moments.

And now here's our Creation Moments host, Ian Taylor.

Ian T. Taylor: There are five known groups of orchid that throw their pollen. These flowers are designed with mechanical flower structures that work as triggers. Some types use a bee's back to trigger the pollen discharge. Other uses, yes, the bee's knees.

The Catasetum orchid produces a few male flowers that have a strong scent and attract a male bee. When the bee lands and triggers a pollen trigger, it is showered with that flower's entire hope for the next generation. Once that happens, the flower stops producing any scent and begins to wither and die.

Now it's up to the bee to find a female flower for the pollen. It's not easy for the bee to find a female flower because the Catasetum orchid produces even fewer female flowers than males.

However, the female flower has an even stronger scent than the male flower, and it lives longer. If the bee finds a female flower, the future of this orchid is bright because the fruit that results produces three million seeds. That's as if nearly half the population of New York City had the same mother and father.

Because the designs of the Creator are carried out amid such beauty and with such careful planning, evolutionists often talk about evolution as if it were a being. However, the truth is clear. God is not merely a distant God up in his heaven. Think of it for a moment. If he is so concerned about such detail, even among plants and insects, how much more is he concerned about the details of our lives?

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