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Guest (Male): Do bacteria have eyes and ears? That’s next on today’s Creation Moment. And now, here’s our Creation Moment host, Ian Taylor.

Ian T. Taylor: Modern researchers are learning that bacteria are not a simple form of life. Rather, a bacterium is a tremendously complex creature that thinks.

Scientists have discovered that bacteria actually have molecule-sized sensors. Some of these sensors act as eyes, while others act as ears. A dozen other proteins have been discovered that receive the information gathered by the ears and eyes of bacteria.

The collected information is processed in the same way that your brain gathers information and makes sense out of it. Bacteria have specialized senses and a brain.

In fact, bacteria are better at sensing things than you and me. A bacterium can, for example, sense the differences between two parts and one part in 10,000. This is the same as if you could tell the difference between one jar with 9,999 pennies and another jar with 10,000 pennies.

The idea that bacteria are just simple forms of life comes from evolution. Growing research is showing that even one-celled creatures are not simple at all.

Think of it. Every single-celled bacterium must accomplish within one cell, all the time, the tasks accomplished using the trillions of cells in our bodies. There is no such thing as a simple form of life.

Science certainly argues against the idea that life began by accident. What science is learning urges us to think about the wise and thoughtful creator who made us.

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