Photomicrographs of lichens show what can be called "tissues." The functions evident in these lichen tissues provide clear support for their origin by divine design. Macro-evolutionary explanations given for lichen origins are demonstrated to be inadequate and unsupported. Lichens, which are not "plants," are seen to possess amazing, anatomical counterparts to the complex tissues found in the "higher plants." Similarities like these, between organisms that are taxonomically quite distant, suggest a "common Designer" rather than an evolutionary "common ancestry."