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The Superior Details in Bacteria

Life on Earth could not survive in the absence of bacteria. All
of the wastes we throw into the ground, certain that they will be
broken down and rot away, disappear because of bacteria. Thus, all
of our waste products can be processed and recycled. Bacteria
break down each part of a dead substance into small minerals that
living things can use as food. They purify our water, make our soil
fertile, synthesize vitamins in our intestines, convert what we con-
sume into useful sugars and polysaccharides (a carbohydrate
group), and combat the harmful bacteria we ingest with our food.
The nitrogen cycle, which is of vital importance to Earth, de-
pends entirely upon bacteria to take nitrogen from the air and con-
vert it into nucleotides and amino acids, our own building blocks.
This literally amazing process cannot be carried out by any other
living thing, including humanity. Bacteria effortlessly carry out a
process that can be achieved only at a temperature of 500 degrees
Celsius and at a pressure 300 times greater than normal by using
industrial techniques in a matter of seconds.
More important, bacteria provide us with the oxygen we
breathe. In fact, much of Earth’s breathable oxygen is supplied by
micro-organisms through photosynthesis. Cyanobacteria, algae,
and other micro-organisms that fill the oceans, release some 150
billion kilos (331 billion lbs.) of oxygen every year. 1
Bacteria, just one of the countless reasons why life exists on
this planet, completely discredit Darwin’s theory of evolution.
Darwin imagined, mistakenly, and therefore based his entire theo-
ry on the assumption that these life forms were primitive.
However, twenty-first century technology clearly reveals that these
life forms are perfect entities with such complex features and abil-
ities that they could never have come into being by chance or spon-
taneously. In fact, the theory of evolution cannot account for the