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The Origin of Abundant Diversification

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

(Isaiah 5:20) NKJV

“Origin of reptiles, diversification of amphibians. Insects abundant.” Here we can see how doublespeak is used to establish the premise that the evolution narrative envisions the development from simple to complex.

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Mosses, Lycopods, Sphenopsids

So the Light of Israel will be for a fire, And his Holy One for a flame; It will burn and devour His thorns and his briers in one day. And it will consume the glory of his forest and of his fruitful field, Both soul and body; And they will be as when a sick man wastes away.

(Isaiah 10:17-18) NKJV

“Mosses, lycopods, sphenopsids, ferns, seed ferns and cordaites.” The next part of the description we have of the Pennsylvanian is a laundry list of plant kinds which sounds like an ecosystem or habitat, not a period of time.

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Catastrophically Buried Middle Pennsylvanian Sigillaria and Calamitean Sphenopsids from Indiana, USA: What Kind of Vegetation Was This?

  • William A. Dimichele, W. John Nelson, Scott Elrick and Philip R. Ames
  • PALAIOS Vol. 24, No. 3/4 (Mar. – Apr., 2009), pp. 159-166
  • Link to Article

Abstract

A catastrophically buried stand of calamitean sphenopsids and sigillarian lycopsids is reported from the Middle Pennsylvanian of southwestern Indiana, in the Illinois Basin.

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