Bacteria acquire immunity in a very short time by passing their
resistant genes on to one another. The complex structure of the
cell was unknown in Charles Darwin’s day. For that reason,
evolutionists of his time imagined that chance and natural
phenomena represented a satisfactory answer to the question of
how life first came to be. Darwin suggested that the first cell
could come into existence in a small, warm waterhole. The German
biologist Ernst Haeckel, one of Darwin’s supporters, examined
under the microscope the mud brought up from sea bed by a
research vessel and claimed that this was an inanimate substance
that turned into living matter. This so-called life-assuming
matter is known as Bathybus haeckelii (Haeckel’s mud); and those
who first proposed the theory of evolution imagined life to be
just such a simple matter. However, 20th-century technology
investigated life down to the very finest detail, revealing that
the cell was the most complex system yet discovered. (See also
The Miracle in the Cell