To catapult its pollen, bunchberry flower petals open, each petal is separated and flipped backwards, almost instantaneously (in less than half a millisecond) the stamen unfurls, catapulting pollen into the air, sending it off to pollinate other bunchberries.
This causes the pollen to be subjected to 2,400 times the force of gravity!
Building this plant trebuchet took careful planning and complex design, testifying to the creative designer, God who created all things. Did you know that this Designer is Jesus Christ?
For by Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him, and for Him: Colossians 1:16
Can you imagine a plant that moves so fast that science didn't know what it was doing until recently? The plant is a forest wild flower found in North America and called the Bunchberry dogwood.
A few botanists had noted a strange "poof" associated with the plant, but no one knew what was going on. Researchers at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, were studying the plant when they experienced the "poof." Wanting to track down what the plant was doing, they got a high-speed video camera that can shoot 1,000 frames per second. Amazingly, that camera was too slow to clearly catch what the plant was doing. So they got a higher-speed camera that could shoot 10,000 frames per second.
When they reviewed the video, they discovered that the flower was releasing pollen at an amazing speed. They calculated that the gravitational force on the pollen as it is released is 800 times the force astronauts endure when they blast into space. This wonder is accomplished by the flowers' very elastic petals which are part of a design that looks like a trebuchet – a medieval catapult.
The amazing wonders of God's creation should lead us to unceasingly praise Him, something which belief in evolution does not allow.
The Fastest Flower in the West
I was thinking about how an evolutionist/atheist could explain how this plant evolved to catapult pollen. It would be an "evolving" explanation of goo to you evolution. Let me speculate of what an evolutionist would conclude.
(1) By random chance and trial an error over millions of years the bunchberry plant has "evolved" to the point where it explodes its pollen.
I would ask how did it pollinate itself the first time it reproduced? If it was by trial an error it must have got it right the very first time because if it didn't how could it have reproduced?
(2) Maybe the evolutionist would say well the first time it tried to pollinate it did not eject the pollen but figured out over millions of years that was a better way to reproduce.
I would ask so do you believe in "thinking" plants that realize how to evolve into complex designs that require a designer?
The evidence of creation designed by God is a problem for evolutionists/atheists because of God's creations of complex designs that can't be explained by evolutionists/atheists except by the millions of years or goo to you magic time mix of evolution.
This is a vexing, perplexing, atheist enigma puzzle that evolutionists battle with when "explaining" goo to you evolution theories.
(Researcher Bill Rains)
(Romans 1:20) For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
Psalm 19:1-3 19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. 19:2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. 19:3 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.