Water, no other substance on the planet displays the fingerprints of deity better than water. No other substance is as powerful or as subtle as water. No other substance is as essential to the life process, history of civilization or regulator of weather as water.
An anomaly to science, a force of nature and the most essential element to all life as we know it. A universal solvent that can move mountains, defy gravity, and turn a small seed into the mightiest of trees.
Water constantly challenges our world with floods, famines, and fertility, forcing us to adapt, adjust and acclimate. These challenges have gaven us the ability harness hydro electric power, create agriculture oasis and predict severe storms with probability patterns of great accuracy.
Water covers nearly two thirds of the planet with depths greater than the tallest mountains. Yet over 97% is salty and unsafe for human consumption, about 2% is frozen serving as a buffer to moderate global temperatures. Less than 1% of our planets water is fresh and potable and used to support all land animals, vegetation, and fungi. In fact, less than one quarter of one millionth of 1% of the water on the planet is used to support living organisms at any given time. We humans account for a infinitesimally small fraction of that total. Yet we are the only creatures on the planet that hold any responsibility for the destructive actions that are now threatening human survival. Toxic waste, plastics and large-scale fishing operations are not just polluting our waters, obliterating entire species of fish and plants while acidifying and destroying our reefs and estuaries. They are threatening our very existence. No one wants to be regulated in the pursuit wealth, prosperity and survival, yet the voices of climate change, acidification and dead zones in our oceans are screaming for responsible regulations and worldwide unity of action.
What is this miraculous substance? Science tells us water is H2O two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen, yet we know that oxygen is the supporter of combustion, and that hydrogen will itself freely burn. There are many other anomalies of water such as the fact every other substance known to man gets colder and denser colder denser except for water. This life sustaining anomaly causes water to expand at 4 degrees Celsius 39.4 Fahrenheit. This fact causes ice to freeze and float protecting all the plants and animals below the surface. This fact is also the driving force that causes water to become the circulatory system of the planet. Ever wonder why or how water manages the miraculous feat of pushing out of cracks near the top of almost every mountain creating brooks, streams, and rivers the have been the backbone and lifeblood of every great civilization. As the colder temperatures of the earth chill water to this anomaly point it is forced up the aquafers inside the mountains only to be released and creating entire ecosystems downstream. This one anomaly alone is proof of intelligent design. As marvelous as gravity is what would happen on the planet if this action did not occur?
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2:9.3 Mathematics, material science, is indispensable to the intelligent discussion of the material aspects of the universe, but such knowledge is not necessarily a part of the higher realization of truth or of the personal appreciation of spiritual realities. Not only in the realms of life but even in the world of physical energy, the sum of two or more things is very often something more than, or something different from, the predictable additive consequences of such unions. The entire science of mathematics, the whole domain of philosophy, the highest physics or chemistry, could not predict or know that the union of two gaseous hydrogen atoms with one gaseous oxygen atom would result in a new and qualitatively superadditive substance—liquid water. The understanding knowledge of this one physiochemical phenomenon should have prevented the development of materialistic philosophy and mechanistic cosmology.
12:9.4 Technical analysis does not reveal what a person or a thing can do. For example: Water is used effectively to extinguish fire. That water will put out fire is a fact of everyday experience, but no analysis of water could ever be made to disclose such a property. Analysis determines that water is composed of hydrogen and oxygen; a further study of these elements discloses that oxygen is the real supporter of combustion and that hydrogen will itself freely burn.