It should hardly be surprising we live in an area that supports life, we are after all life.
It's also worth noting that I do not dispute the existence of a creator, merely his competence.
People are quick to criticize God, but slow to examine analytical details concerning the
preciseness necessary for life. How can you feel that God lacks competence
since he created the earth, with all life on it, much less the universe ? Apart from the earth, no human or animal life exist anywhere else, making it unique. Could you create life, making all things on the earth (and universe) work harmoniously ? Unfortunately, many fit what Psalms 10:4 says, that "the wicked one according to his superciliousness
makes no search. All his ideas are: "There is no God."
Let's look again at God's "competence". Take for example, water. Where life is, there is water, and usually in abundance, which is three times more abundant than all other substances. In fact, the earth is the only planet covered with water. All other planets in our solar system have no water and therefore no life (along with the fact that they are either too cold or too hot due to being at distance inhospitable to life). Water is the
only substance that occurs naturally as a solid, liquid and gas. It is also the most universal and powerful solvent. Was this by accident from an "incompetent" God or was this an arrangement for life to exist forever by a competent God ?
Consider also this. Water as it gets colder, it contracts and condenses, becoming heavier and sinks to the bottom of any pool of water. However, it is unique when it freezes, not sinking to the bottom, and thus encapsulating all fish or sea creatures in a frozen grave. Rather than continuing to contract, it expands and becomes lighter than liquid cold water, floating to the top, forming a protective shield on top. Why is this important ? Life is protected from being encased in a layer of ice. Otherwise, lakes and other pools of water would become a frozen wasteland, whereby all fish would die. Water's unique properties causes it to expand upon freezing (by 9%), floating to the top, a property shared with
few other substances, and also serves as an insulator. Is this a lack of competence, or a grand design that causes life to exist ? Would you have thought of this ?
What about trees ? How is water able to overcome gravity to feed trees and their leaves, since there is no pump to push water from the roots all the way to the top ? This is due to a specific property of water (which is a polar molecule), called a hydrogen bond, whereby hydrogen molecules possessing a positive charge and oxygen molecules possessing a negative charge are attracted to each other. This attraction allows water to be drawn up the tree all the way to the top of the tallest trees, such as the redwoods that are about 300 feet tall. Otherwise, all trees and vegetation would die of "starvation" from lack of water and we as well. Was God incompetent when he placed this "law" into effect for the everlasting benefit of mankind ?
Even proteins, the fundamental building block of ourselves, have a special relationship with water. To function correctly, a protein must be folded into a
specific three dimensional shape, and this crucial folding process is guided by subtle interactions between the protein and water. Is this incompetence by God or wonderful arrangement by a competent God for life to exist, such as you and I ?
Look a little more closely concerning the earth, at why the earth is just the
exact size it is. If it were larger, it would have a slightly stronger gravitational field and therefore hydrogen, a light gas, could not escape into space, building up and eventually rendering our planet inhospitable. On the other hand, if it were slightly smaller, with a weaker gravitational field, life sustaining oxygen and surface water would escape, and eventually our planet would be barren from the loss of all water. In either case, if the earth were slightly larger or smaller, life would cease to exist.
If the distance from the sun were to variate by more than 5 percent, it would be either too hot or too cold. Does this show God's incompetence or competence to
precisely form our earth just the right size for life and place it in just the right distance from the sun ? If shoes fits just right, is this an accident or did we not try them on before we bought them to see that they fit properly ? Likewise, our Creator
made sure that life would exist eternally, with all everything about the earth designed just right for total harmony, fitting properly, for those who will obey him and therefore can look forward to
living forever on a paradise earth in the "abundance of peace."(Ps 37:11,29; Luke 23:43)
) but I know that it's all about people. And I know people don't start here or end here. Maybe it's to become one. Isn't that what Zion is? To be of one heart and one mind?
