Praetor

Cosmologists are desperately looking for water in other parts of the universe. Why? Because water is a sign of life. Water is a commodity we encounter daily, but have you ever given it a thought?

The wonder when you walk out in the early morning and you see the dew on the grass. Why do these droplets form on the grass? Why don’t they just run off? Oh, the splendour of the dew on a spider’s web! It’s like a net of fine diamonds. Are they stuck on the web because the spider’s web is so sticky?

Since man has gone to space we see photo’s of mother earth - a blue hue wrapped in a cloud cover. 71% of earth’s surface is covered by water.  Oceans are 97% of this surface water, glaciers and polar icecaps are 2.4%, the final 0.6 % are found in rivers, lakes and ponds. Look at your body, you seem quite solid. Some of us more than others. Have you felt the hardness of the body builder’s muscles?  To think that it is made up of 70% water! We can survive 40 days (or longer) without food, but we begin to be dehydrated (on a hot day) within hours. Development level of countries are among others determined by the availability of clean, safe drinking water. All living things on earth are dependent on water to survive.

Is it just accidental that our while life system on earth is centred around water? I doubt it. When you look at some of the characteristics of water there is nothing random about it. Water is made up of two hydrogen atoms that bond to one oxygen atom. But the extraordinary thing is that they bond at an angle of 104.5°. This 104.5° is magic. It causes the water molecule to be bipolar in other words it has a small negative charge and a small positive charge and gives water its peculiar characteristics.

Did you know that water becomes less dense from 4° Celsius and colder? So ponds & puddles freeze from the top to the bottom, but before it reaches the bottom, the top layer of ice isolates the terrible cold temperature in the air from the rest of the water below. All the water creatures survive and the Russians, Norwegians and Swedes can make a sport of swimming in the water under the ice cap of the river!

Those of you who play chess will know that any of the major pieces have greater striking ability from the centre of the board in contrast to when they are stuck at the side of the board. Well the dipoles of water also pull the ones at the surface down causing water to have a curved surface in any container. The interaction of the dipoles at the surface are so strong that it gives the water surface a skin effect. The water strider and ants use this characteristic of water to walk on the water. It’s a pity we are so heavy, but you can make a paper clip float if your are careful! Due to the interplay of these properties water can reach the tips of very large vascular trees overcoming gravity! We work up a sweat just to climb up the outside. This surface tension causes the beautiful drops to form on the spider’s web and the grass when it dews.

Now do you expect me to believe that all of this happened through a natural process?? I will believe you if you can prove to me that a delicate, precisely made Aquaswiss or Seiko Premier Sapphire watch or a shining red Ferrari also came about naturally.

We ascribe the making of these designs  to Intelligent Design. I think water also falls in this category, don’t you?