Apparently bacteria have been found in fossils millions of years old and they are pretty much exactly the same as the bacteria we can see under a microscope today. They have not evolved at all. Which is interesting, because evolutionary science demands that at some point bacteria evolved from simple organisms into complex ones in order for the chain of life to appear and start to develop. The guy who was speaking was someone who had dedicated his life to looking into the chemical origins of life - and he had to confess that he had no idea how that vital missing step happened. His best guess was that, by accident, one bacteria one day somehow became merged with another one. And that this caused a chemical reaction and a mutation which then went on to allow that bacteria to become something else.
I smiled. I'm not a creationist per se. I mean, I haven't looked into all the arguments on both sides and to be honest it really doesn't matter to me whether God spoke and there was a big bang and the world slowly came into being over millions of years, Or whether God spoke and there was a big bang and light and dark and night and day and Genesis 1. It all seems to be the same thing to me. But listening to the radio yesterday it did dawn on me that people who don't believe in the mind behind the universe are really struggling to explain it all. It takes a massive amount of faith to believe that the whole of life came about through one accident on a bacterial level. That you and I exist because somewhere on a planet this size two microscopic bacteria collided and merged and survived and then managed to reproduce . It all hangs on such a delicate delicate thread. The more I discover about the holes in the theories the easier I find it to believe that God did it all - just the way He says He did it.
550 million year old fossil of bacteria
Bacteria of today under the microscope
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