Monday, March 25, 2024

ALL THE ELEMENTS

With a degree in Chemistry, I observed the periodic table too many times to count. But, I did count 92 natural elements, which are the ones God created. Man has found a few more that were developed as the result of nuclear activity or in the laboratory.

And the elements can be categorized several ways: metals, non-metals, metalloids, and noble gases, which are further divided into seven families and eighteen groups. They are also classified into four types of blocks that are: s- block, p- block, d- block and f- block, based on the valence electron in which the shell is located.

There’s more, but the beauty of the elements is their logical, unique qualities that have enabled men to organize and better understand both the elements themselves, and the resulting compounds both in nature and in the laboratory. Thus, all the chemicals and pharmaceuticals that have been developed, along with everything in nature, are a result of God’s creative, chemical wisdom. After all, everything is a chemical composition.

From where else could chemicals have arisen? Hydrogen is the simplest element. Did all the others evolve from it? There is no process that could have provided this. True, some elements degrade over time and can actually change into another. For example, Radiometric Dating compares amount of Uranium to Lead, or Potassium to Argon in order to determine the age of a compound. The shortcoming of this method is due to the unknown amount of the original element in the material being tested.

The above mentioned elements never degrade into a more reactive one, but only to a less reactive one, just like mutations in living things always lose properties from its parent organism, and don’t gain any.  The logical conclusion is that God created each element after its own kind, just as He created each animal after its own kind. Just as a dog has always been a dog, with a variety of breeds, so Carbon has always been Carbon, with a variety of isotopes.

The great thing about this is that we are alive because of all the elements and their resultant compounds that God has provided!

COPYRIGHT 2024 BY CARL E GUSTAFSON

1 comment:

  1. Carl, great analysis and explanation.
    Thanks for your insights

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