Shining light on the evolution of photosynthesis

“The evolution of photosynthesis appears to be an impossible process as the intermediate products are toxic to the cell. In the absence of all of the enzymes being present at once, the process would kill the cells it was happening in. The probability of all of the enzymes evolving simultaneously makes it virtually impossible that photosynthesis occurred by chance in “primitive” bacteria. This article describes the process of photosynthesis to expose the evolutionary hurdles that would need to be overcome. The challenges to the evolution of photosynthesis include the presence of 17 enzymes required to assemble chlorophyll and the toxicity of intermediate molecules required to chemically synthesize the enzymes. Natural selection cannot explain the presence of useless enzymes waiting for a functional product, or the presence of other irreducibly complex components.

It defies common sense to imagine that the irreducible complexity of photosynthetic systems would have formed according to evolutionary theory. Rather, the incredible organization and intricacy evident in photosynthesis—a process man has yet to fully understand, let alone copy— screams for a designer. If photosynthesis was present from the beginning, the “oxygen revolution” was never a condition that evolving life had to deal with. Having been created by God, life on earth was already equipped to deal with such issues.” Evolution Exposed, Second Ed., Shining light on the evolution of photosynthesis, Swindell, www.answersingenesis.org/tj/v17/i3/photosynthesis.asp

Response to comment [from an atheist]:  "[A]rgument from ignorance"? 

Since all the components of the fist cell came from the environment, how did it get the ability (information) to make or assemble these components?

Shining light on the evolution of photosynthesis