Page 727 - Atlas of Creation Volume 2

Harun Yahya

THE ORIGIN OF PLANTS

ife on earth is divided into five (or sometimes six) kingdoms by scientists. We have so far concen-
trated mainly on the greatest kingdom, that of animals. In the preceding chapters, we considered the

L origin of life itself, studying proteins, genetic information, cell structure and bacteria, issues that are
related with two other kingdoms, Prokaryotae and Protista. But at this point there is another important matter
we need to concentrate on—the origin of the plant kingdom (Plantae).
We find the same picture in the origin of plants as we met when examining the origin of animals. Plants
possess exceedingly complex structures, and it is not possible for these to come about by chance effects and

for them to evolve into one another. The fossil record shows that the different classes of plants emerged all of
a sudden in the world, each with its own particular characteristics, and with no period of evolution behind
it.

The Origin of the Plant Cell

Like animal cells, plant cells belong to the type known as "eukaryotic." The most distinctive feature of
these is that they have a cell nucleus, and the DNA molecule in which their genetic information is encoded
lies within this nucleus. On the other hand, some single-celled creatures such as bacteria have no cell nu-

cleus, and the DNA molecule is free inside the cell. This second type of cell is called "prokaryotic." This type
of cell structure, with free DNA unconfined within a nucleus, is an ideal design for bacteria, as it makes pos-
sible the very important process—from the bacterial point of view—of plasmid transfer (that is, the transfer
of DNA from cell to cell).
Because the theory of evolution is obliged to arrange living things in a sequence "from primitive to com-

plex," it assumes that prokaryotic cells are primitive, and that eukaryotic cells evolved from them.
Before moving to the invalidity of this claim, it will be useful to demonstrate that prokaryotic cells are
not at all "primitive." A bacterium possesses some 2,000 genes; each gene contains about 1,000 letters (links).
This means that the information in a bacterium's DNA is some 200,000 letters long. According to this calcu-
lation, the information in the DNA of one bacterium is equivalent to 20 novels, each of 10,000 words. 290 Any
change in the information in the DNA code of a bacterium would be so deleterious as to ruin the bacterium's

entire working system. As we have seen, a fault in a bacterium's genetic code means that the working system
will go wrong—that is, the cell will die.
Alongside this sensitive structure, which defies chance changes, the fact that no "intermediate form" be-
tween bacteria and eukaryotic cells has been found makes the evolutionist claim unfounded. For example,
the famous Turkish evolutionist Professor Ali Demirsoy confesses the groundlessness of the scenario that

bacterial cells evolved into eukaryotic cells, and then into complex organisms made up of these cells:

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