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Adnan Oktar

ple to the complex. To consider whether that claim is true, assume that we
can impose a specific number on the components in the photosynthesis
process. Assume that the number of components necessary for photosyn-
thesis to take place is 100 (though the actual number is very much larger).
Also, assume that one or two of these components did arise spontaneous-
ly, in the way that evolutionists claim, ignoring that such an event is quite

impossible. There will be a necessary wait of several billions of years for
the remaining components to emerge. Yet even if the components that fi-
nally emerge remain together, they can still serve no purpose in the ab-
sence of all the other parts. It is impossible for this system to emerge in
stages, since its components will serve no purpose if any one is absent.
Like the systems belonging to all living things, therefore, the idea that a
complex system like photosynthesis came into being over time, with the
gradual addition of its component parts, is incompatible with reason and
logic.

To see how hopeless this claim is, recall just some of the stages that
take place in order for photosynthesis to occur. All the existing enzymes
and systems have to be present in the plant cell at the same time. The du-
ration of each process and the quantity of enzymes have to be regulated
in the correct manner from the beginning. That is because if the slightest
error takes place—for example, the duration of the reaction, or the slight-
est alteration in the amount of light or raw material entering the reac-

tion—products resulting from that reaction will be damaged and ren-
dered useless. In the absence of any one of these elements, the system will
cease to function.
That being the case, how did these functionless components sur-
vived until the emergence of the system as a whole came into being?
Moreover, the smaller the dimensions involved, the greater the quality of
the intelligence and engineering that system requires. As with laptops
and cell phones, the shrinking of a mechanism’s dimensions shows the
sophistication of the technology used to create that structure. Comparing

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