Spiritual Lesson from nature of those rivers of" living water"

He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
John 7:38

The cycle of water: 

--The mountains give their water to the brooks. 

--The brooks give their water to the streams and canals 

--The streams give their water to the rivers and canals 

--The rivers and canals give their water to the ocean 

--The oceans give water to the clouds. 

--The cycle begins all over again.

Creation Moment 6/22/2026 - Lightning

He directeth it under the whole heaven, 

and His lightning unto the ends of the earth. 

Job 37:3

"Each year, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) estimates that lightning strikes the planet about 1.4 billion

times, averaging 40–50 flashes per second worldwide, with up to 100 flashes per second, depending on the season. 

This immense frequency means that lightning is not a rare accident but a constant, global process woven into the fabric of ecological balance.

It is estimated that a single bolt can carry up to one billion volts and heat the air to 30,000 Kelvin: five times hotter than the surface of the sun. Lightning comes in a variety of forms, as well as being concentrated in specific hotspots globally. 

While many of us may be familiar with cloud‑to‑ground bolts, there are other varieties between and within clouds (intra‑cloud flashes), as well as “sprites” above thunderstorms, and rare “blue jets” shooting toward the stratosphere.

Taking the text as is, Genesis describes a “very good” creation. Lightning, in that pristine world, may have functioned as a non-harmful atmospheric regulator, balancing electrical charges between earth and sky, maintaining soil fertility, and energizing ecosystems without destructive consequence. 

Even today, lightning fixes nitrogen into the soil, enriching fertility

and sustaining plant life. This hints at its original purpose: a life‑supporting mechanism rather than a deadly force. In the following section, we elaborate more on some of these constructive functions of lightning.

Lightning plays a powerful function in ecosystems, engineering various environments.
1. One of lightning’s most vital contributions is nitrogen fixation in soils: a vital process to maintain soil fertility.
--Even though earth’s atmosphere is nearly 78% nitrogen in its gaseous form, nitrogen is inaccessible to plants. Lightning’s intense heat, (reaching up to 30,000 Kelvin) breaks apart nitrogen molecules, allowing them to combine with oxygen to form nitrates. These

nitrates dissolve in rain and enter the soil, becoming a natural fertilizer.
2. Another function of lightning is forest renewal.
--Even in wildfires, they may function as ecological reset buttons. In many ecosystems, particularly savannas and pine forests, fire clears out old growth, recycles nutrients locked in dead biomass, and opens space for new species to thrive.
3. A third ecological function of lightning is its contribution to atmospheric balance.
--As thunderstorms build up massive electrical charges as ice particles collide within clouds., without discharge, these imbalances could destabilize weather systems. Lightning acts as a release valve, equalizing charges between clouds and the ground. This stabilizing function helps regulate storm dynamics and prevents unchecked buildup of electrical energy. In this sense, lightning contributes to balance that keeps Earth’s atmosphere functioning smoothly." 

CEH

Creation Moment 6/1/2026 - Fog Designed for the Web of Life on Earth

And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. Genesis 1:7

"Scientists discovered that fog droplets can host living bacteria that grow and help remove harmful pollutants from the atmosphere, revealing fog as a surprisingly active microbial environment.

Researchers at Arizona State University discovered that fog droplets can act like tiny floating habitats where bacteria grow, multiply, and even remove harmful pollutants from the air. The findings, published in mBio, challenge the long-held view of fog as chemically passive moisture suspended near the ground.
Instead, fog may function more like a temporary ecosystem with active biological processes happening inside billions of microscopic water droplets.
For cloud researcher Thi Thuong Thuong Cao, the discovery began with a simple but unusual question: 

Q: could fog actually support life?"
SciTechDaily

Creation Moment 5/11/2026 - WATER

For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: 

Isaiah 55:10

“The one substance, water, is uniquely fit to serve two utterly different vital ends—ends as different as can be conceived: the erosion of rock and the circulation of the blood. 

Both are absolutely vital to our existence. 

No other substance in nature comes close to having the essential set of properties needed to do these two jobs.

....the formation of the Earth itself, formation of the oceans, climate moderation and the hydrological cycle, tectonic plate movement,

continent formation, and photosynthesis. 

The unique properties of water are also needed to make soil, cool the human body, fold proteins, and form cell membranes. 

Water enables phenomena and processes that unfold on vastly different spatial and temporal scales, from thousands of kilometers and millions of years down to nanometers and milliseconds."

CMI

Creation Moment 4/7/2026 - Meteorological Evidence for God

For He maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapor thereof: Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly. Job 36:27-28

"For meteorological forecasts to be even possible, it presupposes that certain precise conditions exist that govern the fluid mechanics of earth’s atmosphere and oceans. Among these conditions include:

Uniform Physical Laws: For meteorological predictability to be possible, one must assume that the laws of physics (thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, radiation transfer) apply consistently everywhere. Without this, equations used to model weather would not hold

universally.

Predictable Energy Transfer: Meteorological forecasts also rely on the assumption that solar radiation, conduction, convection, and latent heat follow consistent rules. It is based on these assumptions that forecasts of temperature changes, storm development, and climate patterns may yield accurate results.

Stable Reference Frames: Meteorological predication also relies on the stability of earth’s rotation, gravity, and atmospheric composition to enable modeling.

Statistical Regularity: Meteorologists also assume that while weather is chaotic, it exhibits patterns that can be captured through probability and statistics.

The existence of such orderly conditions directly challenges any framework of origins that presuppose randomness and chaos. 

Q: In a world without God, how would physical laws arise without a Mind that codes and sustains processes throughout millennia? 

In a framework without God, there would be no guarantee of uniform laws, as Physics might vary unpredictably across space and time, making equations meaningless. 

*If earth’s gravity, rotation or atmospheric composition fluctuated randomly, predictability would be destroyed and statistical models would be rendered useless." 

CEH

Creation Moment 2/2/2026 -Asymmetry With a Purpose

"Imagine if someone were to invent a planetary power grid that automatically reroutes energy across continents in real time, so that when demand surges in one region, the system instantly draws surplus from a distant region on the other part of the globe, keeping the entire planet in balance! 

Scientists have shown that a version of this revolutionary global-

scale balancing technology already exists in the form of modes of climate variability, such as the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO).

While the impacts of ENSO have already been extensively studied, this new research provides further insights into even more remarkable balances that are driven by ENSO cycles — aligning water storage totals across continents, sometimes making distant regions simultaneously wet or dry.

The researchers Rateb et al., from the University of Texas at Austin, used satellite data to show that these extremes are not isolated events, but part of a synchronized and predictable global rhythm driven by El Niño and La Niña. These rhythms shape civilizations, alter ecosystems, and test the resilience of societies. 

From a creation science perspective, these findings highlight the remarkable interconnectedness of Earth’s climate systems and reflect purposeful design.

The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a climate pattern that arises from interactions between the tropical Pacific Ocean and the

atmosphere. It has two main phases: El Niño, referred to as the ‘warm phase’, which occurs when warm water accumulates in the central and eastern Pacific, weakening trade winds and shifting rainfall patterns; and La Niña, the cool phase of ENSO, which occurs when cooler-than-normal Pacific waters strengthen trade winds, producing largely opposite effects.

The findings, which complement similar studies using the GRACE and GRACE-FO satellite missions from 2002 to 2024, show a clear oscillation in total water storage (TWS) around/across the globe, that is tightly synchronized with ocean-atmosphere interactions:

“Global TWS extremes are governed by a 2–3-year oscillatory cycle linked to El Niño–Southern Oscillation, which synchronizes drought and pluvial conditions across continents.”

The measured regularity of these cycles resembles the functionality of a refrigerator’s thermostat, which switches on and off periodically to keep temperature balanced. In much the same way, ENSO-related cycles redistribute heat and water storage globally, maintaining large-scale climatic equilibrium.

Rateb et al.’s research uncovered even more complexities involved in

ENSO processes. Beyond redistributing heat resulting in contrasting conditions across the globe, the likelihood of a region becoming “wetter” or “drier” because of these ENSO events were not equal. This hydrologic asymmetry is characterized by disproportionately stronger wet events than dry events. In the authors’ words, they found that:

“Wet extremes attain roughly twice the magnitude of droughts, underscoring an intrinsic hydrologic asymmetry amplified by land–atmosphere feedback.”

This finding is significant because it reveals a deeper layer of design complexity within Earth’s climate system. ENSO is not simply a “switch” that toggles between wet and dry conditions but rather operates with built-in asymmetry that magnifies certain outcomes more than others. This implies that the system is not balanced in a simplistic, equal-and-opposite way; instead, it exhibits nonlinear responses, in which surpluses of moisture trigger stronger and more expansive feedback than deficits.

From a design perspective, this asymmetry reflects a form of intelligent calibration. Just as a complex machine may be tuned to favour safety margins or resilience, ENSO’s hydrologic asymmetry allows water surpluses to propagate more forcefully, redistributing resources across ecosystems and sustaining agriculture and biodiversity. Meanwhile, droughts, though damaging, tend to spread more uniformly but with less intensity, reducing the risk of catastrophic collapse within the global water cycle.

This pattern resembles a multi-tiered control system, suggesting purposeful orchestration in which interconnected processes are coordinated to maintain long-term stability despite short-term extremes. From an intelligent design standpoint, ENSO’s synchronizing power reflects purposeful order through its intricate interconnections, predictable rhythms, and alignment with the provision of water for sustaining ecosystems across the globe.

These new insights into ENSO’s complexity raise important questions about traditional evolutionary assumptions, including uniformitarianism. For example, ENSO’s global “thermostat” directly challenges the evolutionary framing of climate evolution as being primarily driven by chance. Coordinated, global rhythms point toward foresight rather than randomness.

Another challenge to evolutionary assumptions arises from evidence against strict gradual continuity. ENSO’s complexity, including its hydrologic asymmetries and the occurrence of abrupt shifts from wet to dry dominated phases within its cycles, does not align with uniformitarian gradualism. From a creation science perspective, such discontinuities may instead be interpreted as purposeful resets within a designed climate system.

Scripturally, the wisdom shown/evident in these processes offers a glimpse into God’s sovereignty over climate. As Genesis 8:22 states: “While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, and day and night shall not cease.” ENSO cycles reflect this promise of ongoing/enduring rhythms. Moreover, the tendency toward stronger and more expansive wet phases highlights God’s providence, sustaining ecosystems and human societies through the redistribution of water across the globe." 

CEH

Creation Moment 1/28/2026 - Hidden Rainfall Patterns and the Case for Design

When he made a decree for the rain, 

and a way for the lightning of the thunder:

Job 28:23

"Rainfall is one of the most ordinary yet extraordinary phenomena on Earth. 

The research, led by researchers Jiang and Burney of the University of California San Diego and Stanford, respectively, revealed that

rainfall’s ‘effectiveness’ in alleviating drought, varies based on the source of its moisture: whether oceanic or terrestrial.

Their findings revealed distinct differences in the quantity, predictability, and intensity of ocean-derived rainfall compared with land-derived rainfall. 

Specifically, they found that ocean-derived rainfall tends to be heavier, more reliable, and more consistent, while land-derived rainfall is weaker, less predictable, and more vulnerable to drought cycles.

While much rainfall originates from a combination of sources, the researchers found that when land-derived moisture accounts for more than one-third of total rainfall, the risk of drought increases significantly compared with regions below this threshold. Using this benchmark, they identified parts of the U.S. Midwest and East Africa as particularly exposed to drought risk due to their reliance on land-sourced moisture.

Forest disturbances, for example, reduce evapotranspiration, creating feedback loops elsewhere in the system that can lead to prolonged and potentially devastating drought. These discoveries provide yet another example of the interdependence that exists within Earth’s weather and climate system, upon which ecosystem function depends. Forests, soils, oceans, and the atmosphere all work together to sustain ecological systems. Yet such interdependence is difficult to explain as a product of blind chance.

The water cycle is often taught as a simple loop: 

evaporation, 

condensation, 

precipitation, 

and runoff. 

But Jiang and Burney’s study shows that this cycle is far more intricate.

The balance between oceanic and terrestrial moisture sources is critical for global food security.

This balance reflects purposeful multi-scalar engineering. 

Oceans serve as vast reservoirs, enabling consistent rainfall across continents. 

The study showed that oceanic moisture can travel efficiently in

‘atmospheric rivers’ in the upper atmosphere, supplying continents on a broader spatial scale than land-based moisture. Working in conjunction with the oceans, however, terrestrial moisture reservoirs appear to play a more significant role in regulating moisture at smaller scales. 

Forests, in particular, act as localized regulators by recycling moisture to sustain nearby crops. Meanwhile, micro-reservoirs such as soil moisture interact with vegetation to create stable microclimates. Beyond their role in climate regulation, forests also protect underlying soil moisture while generating atmospheric moisture and supporting rich biodiversity.

Such multifunctionality is difficult to explain as the product of chance. 

Q: How would random processes produce ecosystems that simultaneously regulate climate, sustain biodiversity, and support human populations?

If rainfall were purely random, chaotic distributions would be the likely outcome, with no predictable patterns capable of sustaining agriculture. Instead, Jiang and Burney’s research confirms yet again that Earth’s climate system is both delicately balanced and remarkably robust, capable of supporting billions of people. Taken together, these findings provide reasonable evidence that the components of Earth’s weather and climate system were designed to serve multiple, integrated purposes in sustaining life.

Cosmological evolution often suggests that the complex systems of Earth, and the broader universe, emerged through trial-and-error processes operating over vast timescales. 

However, these recent findings raise further questions as to the viability of this proposed explanation in several ways:

Fine-tuning of an ‘ideal’ land/ocean moisture ratio.

The study found that too much reliance on land-derived moisture increases susceptibility to drought cycles, while insufficient terrestrial moisture would undermine local ecosystems. 

This suggests that an ‘ideal’ ratio of oceanic to terrestrial rainfall may be required to sustain diverse plant communities; a ratio that appears non-arbitrary.

Q: Could this be yet another example of fine-tuning?

Irreducible complexity.
The well-established interdependence among the atmosphere, land, and oceans provides additional evidence of irreducible complexity in climate systems. If any one element is removed or significantly impaired, the system fails to function properly. 
Predictability: Farmers rely on rainfall cycles being sufficiently regular to support agriculture. 

If rainfall were truly random, sustained agriculture would be nearly impossible. 

The fact that rainfall can be studied, modelled, and forecast suggests the presence of underlying order; and this order, in turn, implies design." CEH

Creation Moment 6/3/2025 - They thoughtest incorrectly

But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; 1 Corinthians 1:27

"Rock Record Illuminates Oxygen History (Syracuse University, 23 May 2025). The nitrogen cycle was supposed to wait for a sudden

rise in oxygen, called by evolutionary geologists the “Great Oxygenation Event” (GOE). These scientists say it happened 100 million years too early!

"According to Uveges, the most surprising finding is a shift in the timing of the ocean’s aerobic nitrogen cycle. Evidence suggests that nitrogen cycling became sensitive to dissolved oxygen roughly 100 million years earlier than previously thought – indicating a significant delay between oxygen buildup in the ocean and its accumulation in the atmosphere."

“…than previously thought…” 

Q: Who thought that? You? 

A: No the ‘experts’ (all Darwinians) who attached their evolutionary scheme to these geological episodes. 

---They thoughtest incorrectly.

But now, their thoughts have become illuminated." 

CEH

Creation Moment 11/12/2024 - Beauty of Earth’s Atmosphere

"Through refraction, reflection, and dispersion, raindrops may separate the light into the seven colors of the rainbow (although in reality there is a full spectrum of light). 

As well as a primary rainbow, a secondary bow can sometimes be seen higher in the sky, one that is reversed because of a double reflection of light in the rain drops. 

A dark band may also form between the two bows, called the Alexander band (named after Alexander of Aphrodisias who first described it around AD 200), where all reflected light is directed away from the observer.

Other optical phenomena in the atmosphere include a halo that

sometimes forms around the sun, due to hexagonal ice crystals in thin cirrus clouds. (Sunlight, or moon light, is deflected towards the observer by the ice crystals, forming a ring around the sun.)

It is easy to take for granted the awesome wonder and beauty we see in Earth’s atmosphere, but it is only through a narrow range in the electromagnetic spectrum that the light we see gets to us through the atmosphere. 

The sun produces its strongest electromagnetic radiation in the ultra-

violet (UV) and visible light portion of the spectrum. In addition, the atmosphere lets most of the visible light (400–750 nm) through. This allows our world to be illuminated, but it filters out the higher frequency UV radiation that is just outside the visible spectrum. The radiation filtered out includes all the extremely harmful UV-C (100–280 nm) and most of the UV-B light (280–315 nm), excessive exposure to which causes sunburn and skin cancer.

The magnetosphere protects the earth from very high energy particles

(mainly electrons and protons) that come from the sun, and cosmic rays. These particles are captured by the magnetic field, and bounced back and forth between the polar regions, becoming visible as the awesome aurora light display in the polar regions (aurora boreali in the north, aurora australis in the south).

Our greatest natural protection from UV light is the body’s own sunscreen, a polymer called melanin, which we have in differing amounts. Melanin gives human skin its various shades. People who live at low latitudes (nearer the equator) tend to have more melanin, hence darker skin, as they need more protection from the sun’s rays. Those who live at high latitudes, where there is less sunlight, still need to produce enough vitamin D to keep bones and the immune system healthy—so northern Europeans historically have had less melanin and lighter shades of skin.

In the words of Psalm 19:1, “The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims His handiwork”.

--The atmosphere is remarkably designed for sustaining the life of plants and animals, and us as human beings with protection from harmful radiation. 

--We also live in a world adorned with beauty, including being able to see the stars at night. 

--This is all done through God’s amazing design." 

CMI

Creation Moment 7/24/2024 - Earth's Circulatory System

And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 

Genesis 1:2

"Unlike almost all other substances, water expands and becomes less dense in its solid form than it is in its liquid form. Ice has an open

structure that is sustained by the hydrogen bonds between water molecules. If ice behaved like almost all other substances (a notable exception being the metal gallium, which also expands on freezing), it would sink to the bottom and the oceans would freeze from the bottom up, leading to much of our planet being permanently encased in ice — since the ice beneath the water would be shielded from the warmth of the sun’s rays. Since ice expands upon freezing, however, it insulates the water beneath the surface, keeping it in its liquid form. 

---This property of water is essential to complex life, both marine and terrestrial.

Water is also a nearly universal solvent, and this property is critical to its role in dissolving minerals from the rocks. Indeed, almost all known chemicals dissolve in water to at least some extent. The solubility of carbon dioxide in water and its reaction with water to yield carbonic acid also promotes chemical reactions with these minerals, increasing their solubility.

For life on land to thrive, the dissolved minerals also must be

deposited on land, which is made possible by the hydrological cycle whereby the water from the oceans evaporates into the atmosphere and returns to the ground as rain or snow. The hydrological cycle is itself made possible by water’s existence in three states (solid, liquid, and gas) in the range of ambient temperatures at the earth’s surface. This ability to exist in three different states at the ambient conditions at the earth’s surface is unique among all known substances. Were it not for this unique property of water, the land masses of our planet would exist as a barren dessert. 

Michael Denton remarks concerning this remarkable property: 

“the delivery of water to the land is carried out by and depends upon the properties of water itself. Contrast this with our artifactual designs, where key commodities such as clothes or gasoline must be delivered by extraneous delivery systems such as trucks and trains. Gasoline cannot deliver itself to gas stations nor clothes to clothing stores. But water, by its own intrinsic properties, delivers itself to the land via the hydrological cycle.”

Various properties of water also make it an ideal medium for the

circulatory system of complex organisms like ourselves.
Another characteristic of water is that its viscosity is one of the lowest of any known fluid. The pressure that is needed to pump a fluid increases proportionally with its viscosity. Therefore, if the viscosity of water were significantly increased, it would become prohibitively difficult to pump the blood through the circulatory system. Denton notes that 

“the head of pressure at the arterial end of a human capillary is thirty-five mm Hg, which is considerable (about one-third that of the systolic pressure in the aorta). This relatively high pressure is necessary to force the blood through the capillaries. This would have to be increased massively if the viscosity of water were several times higher, and is self-evidently impossible and incommensurate with any sort of biological pump.”

Water, furthermore, has one of the highest specific heat capacities of any known fluid. By serving to retard the cooling rate, this property conserves water in its liquid form when it comes into contact with air that is below freezing temperature. Another remarkable feature of water is its evaporative cooling effect. As water evaporates from an object’s surface, the molecules with more kinetic energy escape as a gas, whereas those with lower kinetic energy remain in liquid form. This serves to reduce the surface temperature. The evaporative cooling effect of water is in fact higher than that of any other known molecular liquid — i.e., compounds composed of two or more types of atoms. This characteristic of water is particularly important for warm-blooded organisms when the external temperature is warmer than their core body temperature and thus the excess heat cannot be radiated out into the environment. Instead, excess heat is lost through the evaporative cooling effect of water, maximized by numerous sweat glands on the skin surface." 

EN&V

Creation Moment 1/3/2024 - Fog foggy for Science

Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? 

declare, if thou hast understanding. 

Job 38:4

"Of the world's various weather phenomena, fog is perhaps the most

mysterious, forming and dissipating near the ground with fluctuations in air temperature and humidity interacting with the terrain itself.
While fog presents a major hazard to transportation safety, meteorologists have yet to figure out how to forecast it with the precision they have achieved for precipitation, wind and other stormy events.
This is because the physical processes resulting in fog formation are extremely complex.

Now, in a recent paper published by the American Meteorological

Society, Pu and her colleagues have reported their findings from the Cold Fog Amongst Complex Terrain (CFACT) project, conceived to investigate the life cycle of cold fog in mountain valleys.
"Fog involves a lot of physics processes so it requires a computer model that can better represent all these processes," Pu said. "Because fog is clouds near the ground, it requires a high-resolution model to resolve it, so we need models at a very fine scale, which are computationally very expensive. The current models (relatively coarser in resolution) are not capable of resolving the fog processes, and we need to improve the models for better fog prediction."

The Heber Valley project homed in on cold-air fog which forms in

freezing temperatures below zero degrees Celsius, according to Pu. However by observing how these varying kinds of fog form and dissipate, the researchers are continuing to learn about the meteorological conditions and physical processes governing the formation of fog.
Besides fog IOPs, the variety of non-fog IOPs provided valuable observations for understanding near-surface inversion, ice crystal formation, moisture advection and transportation, and stable boundary layers over complex terrain, all of which are essential factors related to fog formation. Comprehensive studies are ongoing for an improved understanding of cold fog over complex terrain."
ScienceDaily

Creation Moment 11/25/2021 - Even the Lightning serves a PURPOSE

When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder... Job 28:26

"Lightning could play an important role in flushing pollutants out of the atmosphere.

Observations from a storm-chasing airplane reveal that lightning can forge lots of air-cleansing chemicals called oxidants, researchers report online April 29 in Science. 

 

---Oxidants help clear the air by reacting with contaminants like methane to form molecules that are more water soluble or stickier, allowing them to more easily rain out of Earth’s atmosphere or stick to its surface.

Researchers knew lightning produces nitric oxide, which can lead to the formation of oxidants such as hydroxyl radicals. But no one had seen lightning directly create lots of these oxidants.

In May and June 2012, a NASA jet measured two oxidants in storm clouds over Colorado, Oklahoma and Texas. One was the hydroxyl radical, OH. The other was a similar oxidant called the hydroperoxyl radical, HO₂. The combined concentration of OH and HO₂ molecules, generated by lightning and other electrified regions of air, reached up to thousands of parts per trillion in some parts of these clouds. The highest concentration of OH previously observed in the atmosphere was a few parts per trillion. The most HO₂ observed was about 150 parts per trillion.

Hydroxyl radicals (OH) are the most important oxidizing species in the atmosphere and provide much of its ability to cleanse itself.

“We didn’t expect to see any of this,” says William Brune, an atmospheric scientist at Penn State University. “We shelved the data … because it was just so extreme.” But lab experiments later showed that electricity really could generate such large quantities of OH and HO₂, helping confirm these oxidant signals were real.

About 1,800 lightning storms are thought to be raging around the world at any given moment, so Brune and colleagues came up with a ballpark estimate that lightning could account for 2 percent to 16 percent of atmospheric OH." ScienceNews

Creation Moment 3/13/2021 - Thoughts on Day 2 of Creation

 "The 2nd Day:

Clouds are the Dust of His Feet .... Nahum 1:3

Genesis 1 

6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

8 And God called the firmament Heaven.

 

On first thought it seems as though the work of the second day was very meager; but man’s first thoughts of God’s work are always very limited. Wonderful lessons of hope and comfort are to be learned from this day is often referred to in the Bible as an example of the mighty power of God....

 

The Book of Job contains some magnificent descriptions of the power and majesty of God. 

Job 26 

7 He stretches out the north over the empty place, and hangs the earth upon nothing. 

8 He binds up the waters in His thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them. 

 

Who can ever tire of watching the clouds in their varying forms?

....Think of the immense quantities of water that they hold, to pour out in the earth at the appointed time!

 

--Science may tell us, in part, what conditions must obtain
before rain falls, and may predict its occurrence with considerable accuracy; but this does not disprove the fact that God Himself orders the rain.
There are many things that man has observed in regard to the working of God, and there are many more that might be observed. That is what God wants us to do."

E.J.Waggoner

IN the NEWS - Space Hurricanes

Will Space Hurricanes Play A Role In The End Time Of Trouble?

 ....and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven....and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.

Luke 21:11/Mark 13:25

 "Hurricanes in the Earth’s low atmosphere are well known; however, disturbances resembling hurricanes had never before been detected in the upper atmosphere.

 “Until now, it was uncertain that space plasma hurricanes even existed, so to prove this with such a striking observation is incredible,” said Professor Mike Lockwood.

 “Tropical storms are associated with huge amounts of energy, and these space hurricanes must be created by unusually large and rapid transfer of solar wind energy and charged particles into the Earth’s upper atmosphere.”

 

 They detected a 621-mile wide mass of plasma in the northern polar

ionosphere and magnetosphere during low solar and otherwise low geomagnetic activity.

The hurricane was spinning in an anticlockwise direction, had multiple spiral arms, and lasted almost eight hours before gradually breaking down.

 

 “These features indicate that the space hurricane leads to large and rapid deposition of energy and flux into the polar ionosphere during an otherwise extremely quiet geomagnetic condition, suggesting that current geomagnetic activity indicators do not properly represent the dramatic activity within space hurricanes, which are located further poleward than geomagnetic index observatories,” said Professor Qing-He Zhang.

 

Unlike with regular hurricanes that can dump huge amounts of

precipitation over Earth's surface, the scientists instead observed electrons raining into the upper atmosphere.

 

 In addition, the space hurricane will lead to important space weather effects like increased satellite drag, disturbances in High Frequency (HF) radio communications, and increased errors in over-the-horizon radar location, satellite navigation and communication systems." SciNews/NBC

Creation Moment 1/25/2021 - Septillions of Snow Flakes Testify......

 The snowflakes testify....for even in nature God grants a form of free will, what is called in science chaos theory or randomness......the productions in/of diversity in this highly engineered universe in endless...

 Praise the Lord from the earth, you great sea creatures and all deeps, fire and hail, snow and mist, stormy wind fulfilling his word!  Psalm 148:7-8

 

"Each winter there are about 1 septillion (1, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000 or a trillion trillion) snow crystals that drop from the

sky!

 Snow crystals are sensitive to temperature and will change in shape and design as they fall from the cloud and are exposed to fluctuating temperatures. To have two snow crystals or flakes with the same history of development is virtually impossible.

 Generally speaking, water molecules have two hydrogen molecules with one ¹⁶O atom. 

However, not all water molecules will have this arrangement. Some water molecules will have an atom of deuterium in place of one of the hydrogen atoms and some water molecules will have an atom of ¹⁸O. 

Since the molecular makeup of snow crystals varies greatly from one to another, it follows that each snow crystal will be slightly different."

LibraryOfCongress/CEH