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Adnan Oktar

important tasks. To cite one example of their vital importance, the enzyme
carboxydismutase (ribulose 1.5 diphosphate carboxylase)— which plays
a particularly important role in this stage of photosynthesis—breaks
down acids, despite its being only 0.00000001 mm (one hundred-mil-
lionth of a millimeter) in size, and catalyzes oxidation processes.

What purpose does this serve? If the carbohydrates (triose-hexose
molecules) are not stored in a specific quantity and a specific form inside
the cell, then internal cell pressure rises and finally leads to cellular break-
down. This storage, therefore, takes place in starch molecules that do not
affect internal fluid pressure. This is one of the ordinary tasks undertaken
by enzymes 24 hours a day.

As already stated, the remaining 5 RuBP molecule establishes a non-
stop chain reaction by providing the material necessary to begin the proc-
ess anew. So long as carbon dioxide, ATP and NADPH are present, this
reaction in the chloroplasts is constantly renewed. The thousands of glu-
cose molecules produced during this reaction are used by the plant for

respiration and as a structural material, or are else stored away. 84
Even the broad outlines of this chain reaction, briefly summarized
here, took scientists hundreds of years to understand. Carbohydrates can-
not be formed in any other way on Earth, which have been produced by
plants thanks to this exceedingly complex system for millions of years.
These substances thus produced are the main food source for all living
things.

The plants, bacteria and single-celled organisms are entities with no
brain, eyes or ears, and are unaware of what they do. Yet they have been
carrying out photosynthesis for millions of years, even though it is still
not fully understood by human beings. To maintain that these entities
spontaneously acquired this photosynthetic system is as illogical as claim-

ing that they decided to use the Sun, water and air to obtain energy and
that they possessed the knowledge to implement that decision. Even if all

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