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Scientists tell us that there are
nearly a hundred elements in the make-up of our world. These elements have
affinities and aversions, and are the playgrounds of opposing forces, yet
with all their pulling and pushing, there is a nicely of balance that is
amazing to thinkers. There may be other elements somewhere in the
universe, but another one might upset the balance of those we have, and
certainly if any one of a dozen elements that could be named were taken
away, earth would be a desert. God has just the right number in the right
proportion, and they behave exactly the right way so that all the pulls
balance all the pushes.
If through centuries snowflakes
would accumulate one-half of one percent faster than they melted we would
have another ice age.
If water froze 4 percent of the 672
degree range lower than it now does, it would rain at 6 degrees below
zero. If God had fixed the freezing point 2 percent of the range higher
there would be frosts whenever the temperature dropped to 45 degrees
above.
Supposing water evaporated more
readily. There would be more moisture in the air, (more clouds) but
droughts would become more frequent. If water evaporated less readily,
more of the earth would be a desert.
What if ice were heavier? Heavy ice
would settle to the bottom--some bodies of water would freeze solid.
Instead ice gets lighter and floats.
If God gave to an inexperienced
angel a barrel of human brains and gave him the task of designing another
world, he would not in a hundred years think of combining two gases into a
substance so that man can build houses with it, walk on it, drink it, wash
in it, catch fish in it, turn a desert into a garden with it, make
rainbows of it, drive machinery with it, boil beans in it, and then use it
to put out the fire.
Oxygen makes the fire blaze with a
heat that will melt steel; hydrogen is explosive when touched with flame;
together as water, they put fire out.
Without salt the earth would be
uninhabitable. Then, because too much salt on the surface of the earth
would ruin it, He buried most of it.
The force of gravity depends on the
size of the world. To multiply the size of the world would multiply the
weight of everything on the earth, from dew drops to avalanche. What would
life on earth be like if the earth were one-half its present diameter? If
sand, dust and loose matter were only one third its present weight, you
can guess what would happen in a wind storm.
What if the highlands were one tenth
of one percent too high? God did not make mountains just for scenery.
Without elevation there would be no drainage. The world would be a swamp.
Water supply, wind, rain, and temperature depend on mountains. If too
high, snow and ice would collect thru the ages until the earth crust
collapsed or the earth became lopsided. The high mountains more than four
miles high are cone shaped and glaciers carry snow and ice down to melting
level. (Isa. 40:12)
WHAT IF THERE WERE A MISTAKE OF 1
PERCENT in depth of atmosphere? There is a layer of ozone that screens out
certain rays from the sun which would otherwise destroy all life on earth.
The depth and density of the atmosphere modifies our temperature just as
altitude does. A mistake would have covered the earth with snow and ice.
WHAT IF THE EARTH HAD BEEN TILTED
otherwise than it is? The axis of the earth in relation to the plane of
its orbit is tilted at an angle of 23.5 degrees. If it had been tilted 45
degrees, the temperature zones would have torrid-zone heat in summer and
frigid-zone cold in winter. If the earth did not revolve, no life would be
possible on either side. If the speed of the earth around the sun were
either slower or faster, it would go either closer or farther away from
the sun resulting in intense heat or intense cold as the case may be.
WHAT IF THERE WAS A MISTAKE OF TEN
PERCENT in distance, diameter, or temperature of the sun? Our sun is one
of the smallest stars in the universe, but it is exactly big enough and
far enough away.
WHAT IF THE MOON WAS TOO LARGE, too
small, too near, too far? If the moon were half as far away, or twice its
present diameter, great tides would wreck most of our harbors, submerge
low-lying islands and costal plains, and drive inland a hundred miles on
some rivers. A small moon, or one far away would not raise sufficient
tides to cleanse our harbors.
Author Unkown
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