Creation Moment - Amazing Water:
By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened. Job 37:10
According to evolutionary theory, all matter and energy were the result of a huge explosion called the “Big Bang.” The laws that matter and energy must follow are also the result of that same great explosion. As a further result of these beliefs, evolutionists are convinced that things behave the way they do quite accidentally.
The first question that comes to mind is: How could an accident have produced the seemingly careful designs we see in the way certain important materials behave? Consider water, for example. Water is essential to life. Water, which is the basis of our blood, carries dissolved food to the deepest cells in our bodies along with oxygen so that our cells can live. Water dissolves the wastes and behaves in just the right way so that other organs can remove those wastes from our bodies. Is it an accident that only water, the very same material basic to the materials of life, also can do all these other unique jobs?
Water also refuses to act like most other materials. For example, we all know that when any material is turned from a liquid to a solid, it becomes more dense and therefore heavier. But when water freezes into ice, it doesn’t do this; it gets lighter. If it got heavier, ice would sink in our northern lakes when it formed, and they would quickly freeze solid, killing all life in them.
The unique properties of water are only a few of the millions of so called accidents that had to happen “just so” – in harmony with millions of other details – in order to make life possible. All by itself, simple water testifies to a wise Creator.
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A Wonderful Testament to God’s Perfection
The density of water varies with temperature. It is least dense of course at 32oF (0oC) – ice, which floats. It is most dense at approximately 39°F/4.0°C. Otherwise, warmer water is typically more dense than cooler water. So???
So, this anomaly results in a naturally occurring, gentle TURN-over of the water of lakes, ponds, and some rivers (depending on depth and velocity and sediment load), heralding autumn and spring!
In the summer, surface waters heated by the sun, become the most warm, and typically less dense than cooler waters. The coolest water is found at the dark bottom of the lake or pond, with little if any warming from the sun.
In autumn, as surface waters cool and become more dense, it sinks; waters cooled to 39°F/4.0°C sink to the bottom. As weather continues to get colder, water exposed to the colder weather at the surface forms ice, the least dense, sealing off the waters below.
In the spring, with rising seasonal temperatures, as the surface ice warms and melts, the water becomes more dense, and sinks. Again, the coolest water is at the dark bottom of the lake or pond, with little if any warming from the sun.
So??? So the vertical movement of water ‘hardwired’ (aka designed by God, our loving heavenly Father), moves oxygen and nutrients throughout the water depths, allowing aquatic life throughout! With oxygen throughout, ‘bottom feeders’ able to prevent permanent ‘pollution’ at the bottom of the water body!
And the autumn and spring turnovers are quite visible! Keep watching the nearby lake or pond. One morning you will SEE notably beautiful, inviting water...what had been only the day before the usual boring and probably muddy looking water.
