I cannot contain the excitement I feel, within myself, towards the Creator for the Wonder of Creation, anymore. So I have decided to publish a series of blogs under this subject.
As I start this series, I wish to point out that I am not here to make long arguments about technical aspects of science or to become embroiled in these with dogmatic University priests, who have the arrogance to believe in hypothetical theories, but do not have the common sense to believe that everything we see, hear and feel had to be created by a Creator. These people cannot have any wisdom if they do not start at the beginning of wisdom which is the fear of God. (Ps. 111:10). I only wish that atheists like Richard Dawkins can understand this.
I think that I am amply scientifically qualified to interpret our present science in parallel with the appropriate biblical, historic and philosophical perspectives, having been trained in Physics, Mathematics, Engineering, History and many of the Social Sciences.
We have moved away from the multidisciplinary training of people, like those of the Renaissance period, into a world of very narrow specialization, and in the process we became unable to interpret our own special knowledge in symbiosis or synthesis with that of other disciplines.
There are many examples of missed opportunities because of this and I will cite one.
John Flamsteed (1646-1719), the first Astronomer Royal had the most exact and compete observations of the stars and planets at that stage, but he did not know what to do with it, although he guarded it jealously, and did not want anyone else to use it to the advantage of mankind.
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) had a beautiful theory worked out for planetary motion, which we still use today, but he did not know what the underlying laws of nature were. It was only a mathematical construct.
Neither of these two gentlemen could put forward a universal theory based on what they had, because they had tunnel vision.
Enter Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727). When he saw Kepler's work, he said there must be something like gravity. He checked it out with the observations of Flamsteed (which he got under duress) and published the Universal Gravitation Theory, which we still use today.
The point I make is - do not listen to experts only. They are good in their field which may cover less than 0.00001% of the laws of nature - a fraction so small that God might not even notice the difference between their knowledge and zero - sorry God for dragging You into this argument. On its own the information is useless. One has to interpret it in terms of all the relevant information, theories and disciplines.
It is quite silly to me that we have six or more subjects at school and even more at university. God only made one subject - it is we who subdivided knowledge into compartments to our own detriment.
I will try my best to be true to this objective, although I am bound to fail often and spectacularly, but I am trying.
Where do I begin?
There is an endless list of questions that we ask and never get answers to, so deciding on a method or sequence of questions is really like choosing a star from the universe to give a name to and deciding which one it is to be.
Some of the interesting questions I wish to ask are:
Why is our earth rotating at this exact speed, and who set that speed? Off the cuff it is quite easy to argue that a slower and a faster speed would have made life almost impossible, due to the excessive maximum and minimum temperatures that will occur, but we need to address it properly.
Why is it that the sun and moon are exactly the sizes they are, and why is the moon exactly the same size as the sun - as seen from the earth? Why is the moon turning exactly in phase with its rotation around the earth?
Who manages the yearly Salmon run ?
But somehow I have chosen one of those stars to name and decided on the following subject to start off with.
What does it cost to water the earth?
No, its not meant to be a joke.
Lets start off with its most basic form. We have water covering 70% of the earth and the other 30% is land. The water is not supposed to stay there. It is supposed to water the land, so that we can have life and vegetation and a cleansing of the land.
God did not just tell Adam : There is the water and there is the land - see that you water the land regularly. No, he took it on Himself to water Adam's land (remember he gave it to Adam for free to watch and to cultivate - it was Adam's land) thereby fulfilling one of the lowliest jobs on earth - that of water carrier (aquarius).
So how would we go about watering the earth.
The total land area is 148 300 000 km². If we wish to water the land with an average of 1000mm per year, we need 1,483 x 1014 (1,483 times one plus 14 zeroes) m³ of water per year. How would we go about it?
This is clearly almost beyond our understanding, but lets try.
We will have to desalinate it. That is a very expensive and complicated process even today, but most of the population of the earth are about as technically advanced as Adam, so we will boil it, and then cool it and catch it in containers. Then we need to get someone to carry it. Did I hear any volunteers ? Before you start - first consider whereto it is to be taken. There are mountains as high as Mt. Everest (30 000 feet). When we get there we should sprinkle it so as to distribute it evenly over those mountains. Are you prepared to do that day after day.
Lets make it easier. Some of us live in a technical advanced sociery. We would have to erect a pump station, desalinate the water and then pump it uphill through an irrigation system which we will need to move day by day to see that all areas get some water - a sort of a global pivot system. Practically impossible.
The energy required to lift 1,483 x 1014 m³ per year to an average elevation of 3000m is 44 x1014 Mega Joule per year. Taking Coal (Lignite with a nett calorific value of 8 MJ/kg), we need 550 000 million tons per year (excluding losses due to friction etc. which could be equal to this). Think of the depletion of our coal or other energy resources and the Carbon footprint. Too ghastly to contemplate.
So , although we know more or less how we would do it, it would take us with all the resources of the earth and millions of years to do it, but ultimately it is not feasible, it is a pipe dream. Our plants will die before we get to them again.
So the Creator comes and does this:
• He makes water with a few special properties. It can exist in three phases namely water, water vapour and ice. What is more, the three phases have different heat capacities, so He secretly (latently) adds a property to take up or give off heat when it changes phase, without changing temperature. Then He commands ice to melt under high pressure.
• He makes the earth to turn at a specific rate, so that it takes up exactly the correct amount of heat from the sun to drive this system. We hear stories of global warming which only entails the heating of the earth by 2 degress C. So how precisely must the earth's rotation be set to comply with this ?
• He makes the earth into a spherical form so that the poles are cold and the equator hot and turning at different speeds, thereby developing a worldwide pressure gradient and geostrophic wind system as well as a vertical wind system.
• He makes water vapour lighter than air so that air can carry it aloft. Can one imagine water in this form lighter than air ?
• He commands the water not to take along the salt, fishes and food in the sea when it is scooped from the sea and turned into when vapour. So He turns it into water vapour so that it is very light to lift it to heights of over 30 000 feet (by wind alone !).
• He makes the land surface heterogeneous (dissimilar) by way of colour and cloud coverage to warm unevenly so that pressure patterns and the concomitant winds are generated to transport this vapour to its destination. All winds cannot have the same direction, in which case only certain limited parts of the globe can be watered, so He makes winds blowing in all possible directions. He even makes a specific sea breeze so that wind can blow directly from the sea to the land !!
• He makes the adiabatic temperature lapse rates between dry and saturated air differently so that saturated air (full of water vapour) becomes unstable under certain conditions to change its phase once again from the vapour form to the liquid (rain) form by way of up draughts thereby cooling it again to become water. He also makes mountains to lift the vapour to cool it and go into the liquid phase (rain).
• He decides that certain areas cannot use all the water he gives to them in a few months, to last a whole year, so he turns it into snow so that it cannot run off quickly.
• He lets snow compress into solid ice for even longer retention periods in glaciers, which can last for centuries and even millennia.
• He tells solid ice to melt under high pressure so that these glaciers can move as they melt and keep the source and quantity of desalinated water constant and on the same place.
• He changes the ice ages every 10 000 years so that depleted glaciers can form anew or be regenerated.
• He shifts the areas He waters from day to day by means of pressure systems and winds which changes daily, to irrigate all areas of the globe.
• He condenses the water vapour into many forms like fog, drizzle, rain, thunderstorms, snow, sleet, virga, hail to suit His (and our) purpose.
• He takes away the excess rainwater by way of rivers back to its origin so that the land shall not be flooded permanently.
• He stores most of the rainwater in the earth in aquifers from where we can obtain it by way of wells, boreholes, fountains, lakes and what not. These sources we can use at our leisure and as when we need it.
• He does only use solar, and the concomitant wind power. In the process he does not use any nonrenewable energy, no resources from earth. He leaves no Carbon footprint. That is about as green as you can get.
• He listens out to our prayers for rain and send it to where we need it.
If there were not at least a few million miracles involved in this process (from our perspective), I would not know what a miracle is.
Isn't it AWESOME !!! What do you think?
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