Posted: Feb 12, 2017 3:26 pm
Maybe the C4 mechanism is a result of the Fall. Bad stuff, that cane sugar! Still, it gives the Cretinists a way to date said Fall if they can ever be persuaded to abandon their Fludde!Itsdemtitans wrote:As far as we can tell from the fossil record, per your own link, plants using the C4 pathway evolved about 35 million years ago. Before that, all the plants we see seem to belong to genera that utilize the C3 pathway.