Page 691 - Atlas of Creation Volume 2

Harun Yahya

In Darwin's time, it was thought that the cell had a very
simple structure. Darwin's ardent supporter Ernst
Haeckel suggested that the mud pulled up from the bot-
tom of the sea could produce life by itself.

the ground is shaped under "natural conditions"

and lays the foundations of a building that is to be
formed with these bricks. At the end of this process,
a complete building rises with all its materials, carpen-
try, and installations intact.
Of course, a building does not only consist of foundations, bricks,
and cement. How, then, are the other missing materials to be ob-

tained? The answer is simple: all kinds of materials that are needed
for the construction of the building exist in the earth on which it is
erected. Silicon for the glass, copper for the electric cables, iron for the
columns, beams, water pipes, etc. all exist under the ground in abun-

dant quantities. It takes only the skill of "natural conditions" to shape
and place these materials inside the building. All the installations, car-
pentry, and accessories are placed among the bricks with the help of
the blowing wind, rain, and earthquakes. Everything has gone so well that the bricks are arranged so as to
leave the necessary window spaces as if they knew that something called glass would be formed later on by
natural conditions. Moreover, they have not forgotten to leave some space to allow the installation of water,

electricity and heating systems, which are also later to be formed by chance. Everything has gone so well that
"coincidences" and "natural conditions" produce a perfect design.
One who manages to sustain his belief in this story so far should have no trouble surmising how the town's
other buildings, plants, highways, sidewalks, substructures, communications, and transportation systems
came about. If he possesses technical knowledge and is fairly conversant with the subject, he can even write an

extremely "scientific" book of a few volumes stating his theories about "the evolutionary process of a sewage
system and its uniformity with the present structures." He may well be honored with academic awards for his
clever studies, and may consider himself a genius, shedding light on the nature of humanity.
The theory of evolution, which claims that life came into existence by chance, is no less absurd than our
story, for, with all its operational systems, and systems of communication, transportation and management, a
cell is no less complex than a city. In his book Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, the molecular biologist Michael

Denton discusses the complex structure of the cell:

To grasp the reality of life as it has been revealed by molecular biology, we must magnify a cell a thousand million
times until it is twenty kilometers in diameter and resembles a giant airship large enough to cover a great city like
London or New York. What we would then see would be an object of unparalleled complexity and adaptive design.
On the surface of the cell we would see millions of openings, like the port holes of a vast space ship, opening and
closing to allow a continual stream of materials to flow in and out. If we were to enter one of these openings we
would find ourselves in a world of supreme technology and bewildering complexity... Is it really credible that ran-

dom processes could have constructed a reality, the smallest element of which—a functional protein or gene—is
complex beyond our own creative capacities, a reality which is the very antithesis of chance, which excels in
every sense anything produced by the intelligence of man? 201

The Complex Structure and Systems in the Cell

The complex structure of the living cell was unknown in Darwin's day and at the time, ascribing life to "co-
incidences and natural conditions" was thought by evolutionists to be convincing enough. Darwin had pro-
posed that the first cell could easily have formed "in some warm little pond." 202 One of Darwin's supporters,

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