Miracles By Design

Consider the behavior capabilities of a simple and very common molecule with the unpretentious designation of H2O that is the fundamental component of water that arguably is the life-blood of life. That is, without water, life as exists on earth would not be possible. It is interesting to note that in the scripture accounting of creation, water existed on earth from the beginning along with the land.
A list of the essential contributions of water to the development and sustenance of life on earth is endless. Consider the following:
· Water is the medium responsible for the regulation of temperature on earth. It removes heat from the atmosphere when the temperature is high and stores the heat removed to be released back to the atmosphere when the temperature drops. It stores as ice (icebergs and polar ice caps) while the temperature is cold to subsequently absorb heat when the temperature is raised.
· Water is the medium responsible for keeping the earth clean. Released from the seas and oceans as vapor that is free of contaminants, it falls to earth as snow and rain to accumulate waste and contaminants. It then carries those materials to the seas and oceans where the waste and contaminates are deposited as the water is repeatedly recycled.
· Water is the vehicle by which nourishments and waste products are transported into and out of living things. It provides the mechanism used to maintain the proper temperature in living things.

Water is able to do those things because of the unique behavioral capabilities established when the constituent hydrogen and oxygen atoms are joined as a molecule in the H2O configuration through proton/electron bonding. The behavioral characteristics of the hydrogen and oxygen atoms and the ability to behave, are acquired in turn from the constituent components of which they are made with the behavioral characteristics of those atoms unique in each instance based upon the number and arrangement of components used in their assembly. All atoms are an assembly of electrons, protons, neutrons and the energy that provides the force that bind the constituent components to give them their existence as well as the power to do what atoms do which is to bond with other atoms to form more complex assemblies using the power provided by the binding energy that is a component of all atoms.

Where I come from, the existence of those behavioral capabilities is not a miracle. That is pretty high-class engineering.