PHOTOSYNTHESIS CLEARLY DESIGNED FROM THE BEGINNING - Creationists see photosynthesis as a very sophisticated biochemical process, unable to evolve by chance and time - one kind of photosynthesis did not evolve into the other. As long as evolutionists insist the formidable and elegant process of turning light energy into sugar simply evolved, they will forever “need a rethink” and will constantly turn over traditional ideas - Unique structures in rare bacteria suggest the amazing process of photosynthesis is much “older” than evolutionists assumed. Photosynthesis is the process of turning sunlight, water and carbon dioxide into sugar and oxygen. There are two types. The first is anoxygenic photosynthesis that uses molecules other than water to drive the process and doesn’t produce oxygen as a byproduct. The second is oxygenic photosynthesis, which separates water into hydrogen and oxygen to drive photosynthesis, and releases oxygen as a byproduct. Oxygenic photosynthesis is the most common, found in algae, plants and some bacteria — a fundamental process that sustains human and animal life. Evolutionary theory stated that anoxygenic photosynthesis evolved first, followed about a billion years later by oxygenic photosynthesis. Creationists see photosynthesis as a very sophisticated biochemical process, unable to evolve by chance and time. The evolution of photosynthesis needs a rethink, turning traditional ideas on their head.

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Photosynthesis

Clearly Designed from the Beginning

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Creationists see photosynthesis as a very sophisticated biochemical process, unable to evolve by chance and time - one kind of photosynthesis did not evolve into the other. As long as evolutionists insist the formidable and elegant process of turning light energy into sugar simply evolved, they will forever “need a rethink” and will constantly turn over traditional ideas

BY FRANK SHERWIN, M.A.

Unique structures in rare bacteria suggest the amazing process of photosynthesis is much “older” than evolutionists assumed.

Photosynthesis is the process of turning sunlight, water and carbon dioxide into sugar and oxygen.

There are two types.

The first is anoxygenic photosynthesis that uses molecules other than water to drive the process and doesn’t produce oxygen as a byproduct.

The second is oxygenic photosynthesis, which separates water into hydrogen and oxygen to drive photosynthesis, and releases oxygen as a byproduct.

Oxygenic photosynthesis is the most common, found in algae, plants and some bacteria — a fundamental process that sustains human and animal life.

For decades, evolutionary theory stated that anoxygenic photosynthesis evolved first, followed about a billion years later by oxygenic photosynthesis.

However, Dr. Tanai Cardona and fellow researchers at Imperial College, London found unique structures in so-called “ancient” bacteria (Heliobacterium modesticaldum) indicating that oxygenic photosynthesis was occurring a billion years earlier than commonly thought.

Creationists see photosynthesis as a very sophisticated biochemical process, unable to evolve by chance and time.

The ScienceDaily article stated, “The finding could mean the evolution of photosynthesis needs a rethink, turning traditional ideas on their head.”

This is true — especially considering that just months earlier Tanai Cardona lamented, [There is] an incessant stream of speculative ideas and debates on the evolution of photosynthesis that started in the first half of the twentieth century and shows no signs of abating.

Some of these speculative ideas have become commonplace, are taken as fact, but find little support.

By investigating H. modesticaldum, the research team at Imperial College found fully functional photosynthesis was already in place — to put it simply: one kind of photosynthesis did not evolve into the other.

As long as evolutionists insist the formidable and elegant process of turning light energy into sugar simply evolved, they will forever “need a rethink” and will constantly turn over traditional ideas.

*Mr. Sherwin is Research Associate is at ICR and earned a master’s in zoology from the University of Northern Colorado.

The Institute for Creation Research (ICR) wants people to know that God’s Word can be trusted in everything it speaks about—from how and why we were made, to how the universe was formed, to how we can know God and receive all He has planned for us.

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https://www.icr.org/article/photosynthesis-clearly-designed-from-beginning