Me: Did you have fun at the party!
Prodigal: I had a ripsnortin’ good time juggin’ and jawin’ with the kin at the shindig.
Me: Me too!
This is from the book Rx for Worry A thankful Heart by James Gills M.D.
Dr. Swenson explains the existence of the carbon atom as an example of seemingly impossible odds for life as we know it. One Christian chemist called the carbon atom “God’s autograph.” Carbon is the fourth most common element in the universe and all of life that we have discovered is carbon-based. It is the only element that has the properties needed for supporting the richness of life as we know it. Using hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and other element that has the properties needed for supporting the richness of life as we know it. Using hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and other elements, it can form an infinite number of compounds. Scientists have measured over one million existing carbon compounds. Many thousand of these are vital to life processes. Carbon is unique among all of the elements; no other element can form the chemical bonds in carbon.
Yet, the formation of the carbon element is so unlikely that it should not be able to exist. Consider this simplified explanation of its formation. To form a carbon atom requires first that 2 hydrogen come together to form a helium. Then two helium come together and form a beryllium. This beryllium compound is very unstable–it last only for a billionth of a billionth of a second. In that tiny fraction of time, in order for a carbon atom to form, another helium needs to attach itself to the unstable beryllium. And it can’t be just any helium in the area. The nuclear energy levels, or resonance, of the helium needed to attach to the beryllium must be precisely matched in order to form on carbon atom. Imagine all the carbon atoms required to from the basis of all of life as we know it meeting those exacting requirements for each of their formation.
Proverbs 22:12
The eyes of the Lord preserve knowledge, and he overthrown the words of the transgressor.
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigal.com
www.faithincounseling.org
