Genesis 1:11-13

Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth”; and it was so. 12 And the earth brought forth grass, the herb that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 13 So the evening and the morning were the third day.

   When you stop and consider the variety of seeds and ways that they are spread to find new places to grow, truly points to intelligent design. 

   A seed falling straight down from a tree would compete with the tree which it came from for  water and soil nutrients. The lack of sun from the leaves of the parent tree would prevent the seed from even growing in the first place. 

   Just a cursory look as I’m doing here shows how well thought out seed dispersal and propagation must have been. 

   Many of us are familiar with maple seeds (pictured), and how they have their seed attached to a single, curved blade like structure that spins and is easily carried away from the parent tree, even in the slightest wind.

   Or the dandelion which uses wind to travel and has a parachute type structure called a pappus. The pappus opens and closes with the humidity or moisture level, closing when moisture is present and  wind lower than on a dry day with higher winds when it will open and be carried at times, quite some distance. 

   Consider wild grapes or blueberries, eaten by numerous birds as well as foxes,   raccoons and bears.  Consumed and then traveling with the animal to be excreted sometimes miles away, now in its own fertilizer to propagate.

   The familiar coconut floats in the ocean for miles with nutrients and water in the shell to feed the seed during its journey and help it establish itself when it lands on soil. This is how coconuts spread over the South Pacific islands. 

   And anyone who has hiked in the woods has at some point probably had burs or burdok seeds attach to their pants or shirt which you then pull off somewhere else. These are sometimes called hitchhiker seeds and the many types worldwide are too numerous to list here.

   The types of herbs, grasses, fruits, nuts, flowers, and more surely number into thousands. Seeds can be spread via water, fire, wind, and explosive action within the seed, animals and humans. Some have a glue or burs to catch an animals fur.       

   Seeds and what they mature into are food, medicine, drink, heat sources and building materials for nests of animals and homes for man.

   The design in nature of how seeds propagate and the cycle that feeds the animals and man cannot be an accident. How long would maple trees and the many other trees that have winged seeds lasted just dropping their seeds straight down before they evolved that wing to disperse?   They had the wing from the start. They were designed that way.

Genesis 1:29 

And God said, “See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food.

The truth is right in front of us, all around us every day. We just have to be willing to see it.