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Me:\u00a0 Did you have fun at the party!<\/p>\n

Prodigal:\u00a0 I had a ripsnortin’ good time juggin’ and jawin’ with the kin at the shindig.<\/p>\n

Me:\u00a0 Me too!<\/p>\n

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This is from the book Rx for Worry A thankful Heart by James Gills M.D.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Swenson explains the existence of the carbon atom as an example of seemingly impossible odds for life as we know it.\u00a0 One Christian chemist called the carbon atom “God’s autograph.”\u00a0 Carbon is the fourth most common element in the universe and all of life that we have discovered is carbon-based.\u00a0 It is the only element that has the properties needed for supporting the richness of life as we know it.\u00a0 Using hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and other element that has the properties needed for supporting the richness of life as we know it.\u00a0 Using hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and other elements, it can form an infinite number of compounds.\u00a0 Scientists have measured over one million existing carbon compounds.\u00a0 Many thousand of these are vital to life processes.\u00a0 Carbon is unique among all of the elements; no other element can form the chemical bonds in carbon.<\/p>\n

Yet, the formation of the carbon element is so unlikely that it should not be able to exist.\u00a0 Consider this simplified explanation of its formation.\u00a0 To form a carbon atom requires first that 2 hydrogen come together to form a helium.\u00a0 Then two helium come together and form a beryllium.\u00a0 This beryllium compound is very unstable–it last only for a billionth of a billionth of a second.\u00a0 In that tiny fraction of time, in order for a carbon atom to form, another helium needs to attach itself to the unstable beryllium.\u00a0 And it can’t be just any helium in the area.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

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Proverbs 22:12<\/p>\n

The eyes of the Lord preserve knowledge, and he overthrown the words of the transgressor.<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n

www.theprodigal.com<\/p>\n

www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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