Page 31 - The Error of the Evolution of Species

Harun Yahya
(Adnan Oktar)

The Scale of Biodiversity

To provide an idea of the impressive richness of micro-
organism, fungi, plant and animal species on Earth, a few
examples can be cited. According to Professor Wilson's cal-

culation, a catalogue describing merely a million species
would fill a 60-meter library shelf. 12
To view biodiversity from another angle, let us now in-
clude species' genetic richness in the calculation. The infor-
mation controlling the body's functions, encoded in the hu-
man DNA molecule in the nucleus of every cell, would fill
an encyclopedia containing a million pages. Bear in mind
that Man is only one of 10 million species, and a truly ex-
traordinary picture emerges: Were we to write down all the

genetic information for all those species, there would not be
enough paper in the world to do so.
The number of single-celled eukaryotes (Protista), algae,
bacteria, fungi, seaweeds, flowering plants, sponges, corals,
insects, birds, reptiles, fish and mammals—in short, the
number of the categories of all living things—is so huge that
some scientists and researchers think that the target of de-

termining and describing all species is unattainable. 13
Two researchers from London's Imperial College, Andy
Purvis and Andy Hector, published an article in Nature mag-

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