Creation Moment 1/13/2018 - God's Lego's

The Lord, who created the heavens (He is the God who formed the earth and made it, He established it and did not create it a waste place, but formed it to be inhabited).

Isaiah 45:18 NASB

 

"Isaiah clearly states that God formed the earth to be inhabited. This would imply that every aspect of

the environment has been designed for the growth and maintenance of life. This includes everything from the air we breathe, the water we drink, to even the various types of atoms and molecules from which life is made.

Everyone is familiar with LEGO^®, and that a single piece can be used to build a multitude of different structures for different purposes. Well, God has just such a piece that he uses to build the myriad different life forms. It is called carbon. Man, with the mind God has given him, also uses this piece to make many different products for different purposes. Whereas carbon may be viewed as a LEGO^® piece, carbon-based compounds are the whole LEGO^® set as the same pieces are used to construct the multitude of life forms from plants to insects to humans each with very different structures and purposes.

• Only the element carbon is capable of bonding with itself to form stable, long chains, as well as branched and cyclic compounds, permitting the construction of myriad structures with different chemical and physical properties suitable for life.
• Carbon is able to simultaneously bond with four very different elements thus increasing the number of reactions in which it can engage and the number of structures it can be used to construct.
• Only carbon-based compounds, when oxidized by oxygen, can yield sufficient energy to meet the metabolic demands of warm-blooded animals." AIG