I went to the Missouri Botanical Gardens with four of my children on Sunday and had a great time; they even had some kosher candy sticks and root beer in the gift shop I got for them. It’s a great time of year to get out and reconnect with the earth. Succos always reminds me how interesting nature is and particularly this year the “four species” – palm, esrog, myrtle, and willow, ignited some botanical fascination for me. Here's Yehuda on a bridge at the Climatron.

And here’s one of Noam in front of the fish tank.

But the most amazing thing I saw there was a plant from Indonesia called a Pitcher Plant (Nepenthes) that consumes insects. It has beautiful cups of nectar that attract bugs (sometimes by having a similar smell to rotting meat) and the insects enter the top and have a hard time leaving and end up drowning in the nectar (what a coincidence), which just so happens to have the enzymes needed to break down the insects into the nutrients the plant just to happens to need.

The universe is an awesome place that the Almighty created. There are many things that make it clear beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is a designer. If this plant evolved to be like this that makes it even more astounding and shows us that the Almighty is behind evolution. It seems to me that either way, to think this happened somehow randomly is beyond comprehension, and only someone who doesn’t want to believe in a Creator would suggest such a thing. That’s just my humble opinion. There’s too much design involved for it to happen without the Infinite Creator’s invlovement.

The Zohar says that every single plant has an angel that overseas it’s growth.

IMHO - Every botanist alive should believe in an infinite Creator.