Page 731 - Atlas of Creation Volume 2

Harun Yahya

In short, evolutionist sources say that photosynthesis was in some way coin-
cidentally "discovered" by bacteria, even though man, with all his technol-
ogy and knowledge, has been unable to do so. These accounts, which are
no better than fairy tales, have no scientific worth. Those who study the
subject in a bit more depth will accept that photosynthesis is a major

dilemma for evolution. Professor Ali Demirsoy makes the following ad-
mission, for instance:

Photosynthesis is a rather complicated event, and it seems impossible for it
to emerge in an organelle inside a cell (because it is impossible for all the
stages to have come about at once, and it is meaningless for them to have
emerged separately). 303

The German biologist Hoimar von Ditfurth says that photosynthesis is
a process that cannot possibly be learned:

No cell possesses the capacity to 'learn' a process in the true sense of the word.
It is impossible for any cell to come by the ability to carry out such functions

as respiration or photosynthesis, neither when it first comes into being, nor
later in life. 304

Since photosynthesis cannot develop as the result of chance, and can-
not subsequently be learned by a cell, it appears that the first plant cells that
lived on the earth were specially created to carry out photosynthesis. In other
words, plants were created by God with the ability to photosynthesize.

The Origin of Algae

The theory of evolution hypothesizes that single-celled plant-like creatures, whose origins it is
unable to explain, came in time to form algae. The origin of algae goes back to very remote times. So

much so, that fossil algae remains from 3.1 to 3.4 million years old have been found. The interesting
thing is that there is no structural difference between these extraordinarily ancient living things and

Chlorophyll
Chloroplast

Plant cells carry out a process that no modern laboratory can duplicate—photosynthesis. Thanks to the or-
ganelle called the "chloroplast" in the plant cell, plants use water, carbon dioxide and sunlight to create
starch. This food product is the first step in the earth's food chain, and the source of food for all its inhabi-
tants. The details of this exceedingly complex process are still not fully understood today.

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