Page 83 - The Error of the Evolution of Species

Harun Yahya
(Adnan Oktar)

Institute, gives the following figures regarding the wealth of

bacteria on Earth:
Only 3,000-4,000 species of bacteria have been described.
It has been estimated that there may be as many as
300,000 species of bacteria, but more likely the number is
closer to 3,000,000. 86

Most of us think of bacteria as entities that merely cause
disease. Yet this is not correct. Only a small fraction of bac-
teria species are agents of disease. As Andrew Pollack de-
87
scribed in an article, bacteria play an essential role in the

formation and continuity of life on Earth and in maintaining
88
balances essential to life. This fact is set out by Professor
James Shapiro from the Chicago University Department of
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology:

Although bacteria are tiny, they display biochemical,
structural and behavioral complexities that outstrip scien-
tific description. In keeping with the current microelec-
tronics revolution, it may make more sense to equate their
size with sophistication rather than with simplicity. . . .
Without bacteria, life on earth could not exist in its present
form. 89

Although they multiply very rapidly and are so small and
numerous, bacteria act in such ways as to permit not the

81