Fig Wasp Symbiotic Relationship and Evolutionist Time Gap
by Owen Borville
July 28, 2019
Biology
The fig wasp has a unique symbiotic relationship with the fig tree.
The fig provides a home for the wasp and the wasp provides the pollen that the fruit needs to ripen. The life cycle of the fig wasp begins when a tiny female wasp enters a fig and begins laying eggs inside of the fig.
No other species can pollinate the fig plant other than the fig wasp. The female wasp enters the fig and lays her eggs while losing her wings and dying inside the fig. The eggs eventually hatch and the small wasps grow and eventually mate with each other, male and female. After mating, the male wasps die in the fig just like the mother and only the baby female wasps leave the fig to go pollinate with other fig plants. This symbiotic relationship could only occur if both existed and not if each appeared millions of years apart.
Evolutionists claim that there is a time gap of tens of millions of years from the first appearance of the fig wasp to the first appearance of the fig tree. Evolutionists claim that the fig wasp appeared in the fossil record some 34 million years before the first fig trees appeared. The unique symbiotic relationship between the fig wasp and the fig plant would require that both appear at the same time, as the Creation Model explains. However, evolutionists claim that the symbiotic relationship somehow "evolved" over 34 million years. In addition, fig wasp fossils claimed to be 34 million years old are virtually identical to modern versions, which refutes the idea of gradual evolution over millions of years and gives strong evidence for a unique special creation 6,000 years ago.
Evolutionists use their index fossils found in sedimentary rock layers that have been incorrectly dated using evolutionist assumptions of millions of years of time and faulty radio-isotope dating methods. If the fig wasp needs the fig plant in order to reproduce, how could it exist for 34 million years until the first fig trees appeared? If only evolutionists could accept a special creation event where all life was created and appeared during a single creation event, these symbiotic relationships could be explained much easier. However, evolutionists are committed to their faulty time scales based on rock layers assumed to be millions of years apart. Creationists believe that these rock layers were deposited by catastrophic global flood that occurred about 4,300 years ago and preserved all of the fossils that we observe today.
by Owen Borville
July 28, 2019
Biology
The fig wasp has a unique symbiotic relationship with the fig tree.
The fig provides a home for the wasp and the wasp provides the pollen that the fruit needs to ripen. The life cycle of the fig wasp begins when a tiny female wasp enters a fig and begins laying eggs inside of the fig.
No other species can pollinate the fig plant other than the fig wasp. The female wasp enters the fig and lays her eggs while losing her wings and dying inside the fig. The eggs eventually hatch and the small wasps grow and eventually mate with each other, male and female. After mating, the male wasps die in the fig just like the mother and only the baby female wasps leave the fig to go pollinate with other fig plants. This symbiotic relationship could only occur if both existed and not if each appeared millions of years apart.
Evolutionists claim that there is a time gap of tens of millions of years from the first appearance of the fig wasp to the first appearance of the fig tree. Evolutionists claim that the fig wasp appeared in the fossil record some 34 million years before the first fig trees appeared. The unique symbiotic relationship between the fig wasp and the fig plant would require that both appear at the same time, as the Creation Model explains. However, evolutionists claim that the symbiotic relationship somehow "evolved" over 34 million years. In addition, fig wasp fossils claimed to be 34 million years old are virtually identical to modern versions, which refutes the idea of gradual evolution over millions of years and gives strong evidence for a unique special creation 6,000 years ago.
Evolutionists use their index fossils found in sedimentary rock layers that have been incorrectly dated using evolutionist assumptions of millions of years of time and faulty radio-isotope dating methods. If the fig wasp needs the fig plant in order to reproduce, how could it exist for 34 million years until the first fig trees appeared? If only evolutionists could accept a special creation event where all life was created and appeared during a single creation event, these symbiotic relationships could be explained much easier. However, evolutionists are committed to their faulty time scales based on rock layers assumed to be millions of years apart. Creationists believe that these rock layers were deposited by catastrophic global flood that occurred about 4,300 years ago and preserved all of the fossils that we observe today.
