Page 269 - Darwinism Refuted

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

The book Life on Earth, another evolutionist source, tries to explain the
emergence of photosynthesis:
The bacteria fed initially on the various carbon compounds that had taken so
many millions of years to accumulate in the primordial seas. But as they
flourished, so this food must have become scarcer. Any bacterium that could
tap a different source of food would obviously be very successful and
eventually some did. Instead of taking ready-made food from their
surroundings, they began to manufacture their own within their cell walls,
drawing the necessary energy from the sun. 331
In short, evolutionist sources say that photosynthesis was in some
way coincidentally "discovered" by bacteria, even though man, with all his
technology and knowledge, has been unable to do so. These accounts,
which are no better than fairy tales, have no scientific worth. Those who
study the subject in a bit more depth will accept that photosynthesis is a
major dilemma for evolution. Professor Ali Demirsoy makes the following
admission, for instance:
Photosynthesis is a rather complicated event, and it seems impossible for it
to emerge in an organelle inside a cell (because it is impossible for all the
stages to have come about at once, and it is meaningless for them to have
emerged separately). 332

The German biologist Hoimar von Ditfurth says that photosynthesis
is a process that cannot possibly be learned:
No cell possesses the capacity to 'learn' a process in the true sense of the
word. It is impossible for any cell to come by the ability to carry out such
functions as respiration or photosynthesis, neither when it first comes into
being, nor later in life. 333
Since photosynthesis cannot develop as the result of chance, and
cannot subsequently be learned by a cell, it appears that the first plant cells
that lived on the earth were specially created to carry out photosynthesis.
In other words, plants were created by Allah with the ability to
photosynthesize.

The Origin of Algae

The theory of evolution hypothesizes that single-celled plant-like
creatures, whose origins it is unable to explain, came in time to form algae.

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