Does God Exist? - Dandy Design - Plants Use Frogs to Spread Their Seeds

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The title of this article is PLANTS USE FROGS TO SPREAD THEIR SEEDS.

The Mission golden-eyed tree frog (Trachycephalus resinifictrix) is a large tree frog of the Amazon Rainforest.

One evidence that God and not chance created all living things is the varied ways plants get their seeds into new places. A recent study of frogs at the University of Newcastle in Australia has shown that plants use frogs to spread their seeds. This comes as a surprise since frogs are primarily carnivorous, but frog skins attract seeds and can carry them considerable distances.

The researchers found that tree frogs can carry as many as 14 seeds on their legs, feet, bellies, and backs. Some of the seeds found on the frogs they studied did not grow in the area where the frogs live, so they were picked up somewhere else. We have pointed out that birds spread seeds. Wading birds will have fish eggs stuck to their feet and legs, so fish will appear in recently dug ponds where humans have not placed them.

Studies in Australia have raised concerns over the loss of amphibians due to pollution and habitat destruction. It is not just the loss of frogs that is at issue, but also the function of frogs in supporting plant life. Everywhere we look, we see multiple designs offering complexity that cannot be produced by chance. There is intelligence in the creation, and one place we see it is in the role of all life on Earth.