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ad mit that pho to syn the sis con sti - ORIGIN OF THE PLANT
tutes a ma jor di lem ma for the the o - CELLS
ry of ev o lu tion.
Plant and an i mals are com posed
For in stance, ev o lu tion ist
of a type of cell known as eu kar y ot -
Professor Ali Demirsoy makes the
ic. Eukaryotic cells' main dis tin -
fol low ing ad mis sion:
guish ing fea tures are that they pos -
"Photosynthesis is a high ly com -
sess a nu cle us, in side which is
plex proc ess, and it would ap pear
found the DNA mol e cule that en -
im pos si ble for it to ap pear in an or -
codes ge net ic in for ma tion. Some
gan elle in side a cell—be cause it is
sin gle-celled or gan isms such as
im pos si ble for all the phas es to ap -
bac te ria, on the oth er hand, have no
pear at once, and mean ing less for
cell nu clei, and their DNA mol e cu -
them to do so one by one." 127
les are in a free state in side the cell.
The German bi ol o gist Hoimar
(See Bacteria.)
von Ditfurth states that pho to syn -
This sec ond cell type is known
the sis is a proc ess that could not be
as prok ar y ot ic—an ide al cell struc -
learned by a cell that lacked such
ture for bac te ria, be cause plas mid
abil i ty in the first place:
trans fer (the trans fer of DNA from
No cell pos sess es the lit er al abil i ty to cell to cell)— an ex ceed ing ly im -
"learn" a bi o log i cal proc ess. A cell is
por tant proc ess from the point of
not in the po si tion to func tion dur ing
view of bac te ria pop u la tions—is
the birth of a proc ess such as res pi ra -
made pos si ble thanks to DNA be -
tion or pho to syn the sis and to dis -
ing free with in the prok ar y ot ic cell.
charge this dur ing a sub se quent vi tal
Since the the o ry of ev o lu tion is
proc ess, and it is im pos si ble for it to
obliged to ar range life from the
ac quire the abil i ty to do so. 128
prim i tive to the com plex, it as -
Since pho to syn the sis can not de -
sumes that prok ar y o tes are prim i -
vel op as the re sult of chance and
tive cells, and that eu kar y o tes
can not be learned by any cell, then
evolved from them.
the first plant cell on Earth must
Before ad dress ing the in va lid i ty
have al ready pos sessed this abil i ty.
of this claim, it's use ful to state that
In oth er words, Allah cre at ed
prok ar y ot ic cells are not prim i tive
plants to geth er with their abil i ty to
at all. A bac te ri um has al most 2,000
make pho to syn the sis.