(May 19, 2011 at 11:31 am)RDK Wrote: Maybe this should be started as a new thread, but I think that something miraculous should remain under the evidence for Jesus theme. I had a little vine plant that I set into a glass jar with only water in it for the plant to grow. It didn't take long before the vines began to run down the sides of that jar. It seems like nothing special had happened here, but I began to ponder, Where did the plant get all of that material from which to build itself? The water is just hydrogen and oxygen mixed togeather. That would account for the water in the stems and leaves, but where did all of the solids come from. I dont think that the light coming from the lamp offered any solids, maybe just energy for the plant to do the synthesis of plant product. So where does the material actually come from? Is that plant sucking in dust and making plant stuff with it. I didn't even notice that plants had the ability as dust suckers to begin with. They do breathe through small holes on the undersides of their leaves, but I had no idea that I had thismuch dust in my house. This little plant was gaining volume way faster than the dust entering the room. What else is in light other than various forms of radiation? That little seedling is gaining ground in my room. Someone must be putting somthing in the water.
Most of the 'mass' that goes into your little plant is carbon, which of course it gets from the atmosphere in the form of CO2 and water, which, hopefully, you provide.
Beautiful yes. A stunning example of one of the many incredible mechanisms that evolution has led to, yes. Miracle, um, let's see if you can work that one out for yourself.