Page 31 - Atlas of Creation Volume 4

Harun Yahya
Human beings and
animals possess no mechanism
allowing them to make direct use of
solar energy. That energy can only be ob-
tained by being synthesized as a result of the
process of photosynthesis performed by green
plants and micro-organisms. Cyanobacteria speci-
es that make photosynthesis produce more than
half the oxygen in the atmosphere. The energy
that these organisms manufacture with solar
energy is stored in the form of simple sugars.
This sugar is needed for the biochemical re-
actions essential for the survival and
growth of living things on Earth,
and also for respiration.
One in every ten cells in the filament-
like cyanobacteria in the picture abo-
ve is known as a heterocyst, and it is
these cells, which are completely in-
sulated from oxygen, that perform
the task of fixing nitrogen.
As well as oxygen and carbon dioxide, li-
ving things also need nitrogen (N2) in or-
der to survive. Nitrogen represents one of
the fundamental building blocks in the li-
ving body, especially in the structure of
nucleic acids, proteins and vitamins. The
Earth's atmosphere consists of approxima-
tely 78% nitrogen. However, despite their
needing it, living things cannot absorb this
nitrogen in the air into their bodies. This
gas has to be converted in some way into
a form that living things can make use of
and then recycled back into the atmosphe-
re if it is not to run out. That need is again
met by microscopic bacteria.
The living things that must first absorb nit-
rogen from the air are plants. Plants cannot
use nitrogen in gas form. Nitrogen is con-
verted by nitrite bacteria into nitrite, and
nitrate bacteria then convert that nitrite in-
to nitrate, a form that plants can use.
In carrying out the nitrogen cycle, the bac-
teria that evolutionists describe as “simple”
actually function like living chemical labo-
ratories, as with photosynthesis, and have
been performing complex chemical reacti-
ons, beyond the comprehension of anyone
without a close knowledge of chemistry,
since the day they were first created.
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