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The oldest fossils discovered to date are algae with no nucleus fos-
silized inside minerals, and date back more than 3 billion years. No
matter how primitive they may be, even these manifest relatively
complex and expertly organized life styles. 112

To review how these organisms represent a quandary for evo-
lution:
✹ These microorganisms possess exactly the same forms today
as they did millions of years ago. Yet according to the illusory proc-

ess of evolution, their forms should have gradually changed to give
rise to wide-ranging life, and should have lost their "simple" states.
Clearly, that is not the case. Fossils from the past, are important ev-
idence that they never underwent evolution at all. Fossilized mites
from 400 million years ago are identical to present-day mites. 25-
million-year-old bacteria spores have remained unchanged and

have continued multiplying alongside present-day bacteria.
Present-day algae are the same as fossilized ones dating back 3 bil-
lion years. This "sameness" disquiets proponents of Darwinism,
who are unable to account for the living species that have under-

gone no changes despite the passage of billions of years, maintain-
ing the exact same complexity.
✹ Despite their consisting of one or at most a few cells, all the
THE MICROWORLD MIRACLE any one, and it becomes impossible for the organism to survive.
systems necessary for these microorganisms to survive must be pre-
sent. Every one of these structures is of vital importance. Remove

Therefore, though it possesses just a few organelles, a bacterium
must exist together with all of them. This makes it impossible to
have developed over time, in stages. In any case, exceedingly com-

208 plex processes such as photosynthesis or the nitrogen cycle repre-