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DARWINISM REFUTED

The origin of algae goes back to very remote times. So much so, that fossil
algae remains from 3.1 to 3.4 million years old have been found. The
interesting thing is that there is no structural difference between these
extraordinarily ancient living things and specimens living in our own
time. An article published in Science News says:

Both blue-green algae and bacteria fossils dating back 3.4 billion years have
been found in rocks from S. Africa. Even more intriguing, the
pleurocapsalean algae turned out to be almost identical to modern
pleurocapsalean algae at the family and possibly even at the generic level. 334
The German biologist Hoimar von
Ditfurth makes this comment on the
complex structure of so-called "primitive"
algae:
The oldest fossils so far discovered are objects
fossilized in minerals which belong to blue
green algae, more than 3 billion years old. No
matter how primitive they are, they still
represent rather complicated and expertly
organized forms of life. 335
Evolutionary biologists consider that
the algae in question gave rise over time to
Free-swimming algae in other marine plants and moved to the land
the ocean.
some 450 million years ago. However, just
like the scenario of animals moving from
water onto the land, the idea that plants moved from water to the land is
another fantasy. Both scenarios are invalid and inconsistent. Evolutionist
sources usually try to gloss over the subject with such fantastical and
unscientific comments as "algae in some way moved onto the land and
adapted to it." But there are a large number of obstacles that make this
transition quite impossible. Let us have a short look at the most important
of them.
1- The danger of drying out: For a plant which lives in water to be
able to live on land, its surface has first of all to be protected from water
loss. Otherwise the plant will dry out. Land plants are provided with
special systems to prevent this from happening. There are very important
details in these systems. For example, this protection must happen in such

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