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Despite be ing very small, bac te ria pos -
sess ex ceed ing ly com plex fea tures, in
terms of both struc ture and func tion.

de creased—or as their chan ces of Sir James Gray, the well-known
sur viv al im proved by liv ing as a British zo ol o gist, says this about the
group—, the dif fer en ces be tween bac te ria that Darwinists de scribed as
cells grew more dis tinct. For what - "sim ple":
ev er rea son, cells con tin ued dif fer en - A bac te ri um is far more com plex than
ti at ing and in creas ing their di vi sion any in an i mate sys tem known to man.
of la bor, giv ing rise to in creas ing ly There is not a lab o ra to ry in the world
mul ti cel lu lar or gan isms. which can com pete with the bi o chem i -
At the be gin ning of this fan tas ti - cal ac tiv i ty of the small est liv ing or -
cal view lie sin gle-celled or gan isms gan ism. 226
that are re gard ed as prim i tive and The ev o lu tion ist James A.
sim ple. Yet sin gle-celled or gan isms Shapiro ad mits that these high ly de -
are not sim ple life forms, as ev o lu - tailed char ac ter is tics fea tures make
tion ists sug gest, but nei ther do they bac te ria a com plex form of life:
have the con scious ness with which Although bac te ria are ti ny, they dis -
to make de ci sions and as sume new play bi o chem i cal, struc tur al and be -
du ties. Single-celled or gan isms may hav ior al com plex i ties that out strip sci -
have a sim pler struc ture than mul ti - en tif ic de scrip tion. In keep ing with the
cel lu lar ones, but by it self is not ev i - cur rent mi cro e lec tron ics rev o lu tion, it
may make more sense to equate their
dence that they are prim i tive.
size with so phis ti ca tion rath er than
Indeed, al though a sin gle-celled bac -
with sim plic i ty. . . 227
te ri um still pos sess es a com plex i ty
that amaz es those who in ves ti gate it.

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