The paper states “The morphological distances … between angiosperms and gymnosperms… are maintained even with the inclusion of fossils”. This upholds “Darwin’s abominable mystery”: the sudden appearance of angiosperm fossils in the Cretaceous with no clear intermediates between them and gymnosperms. I made this point in another tweet and Phil Donoghue FRS, the lead author of the paper responded that this is “surely the greatest conundrum in the whole of palaeontology”. The observable evidence continues to be consistent with Holy Writ: ‭‭Genesis‬ ‭1:11‭-‬12‬ “[11] And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit … Continue reading Darwins abominable mystery