Water is essential to life ... far more important than just keeping animals and plants hydrated. There are at least three other more fundamental reasons that, without water, life would not exist:
- The most obvious reason is that, during photosynthesis, water provides the hydrogen which combines with the carbon and oxygen from carbon dioxide to form hydrocarbons ... the basis of all life on Earth.
- A less obvious reason is the fact that, when water freezes, it is lighter than water and therefore floats. If this were not the case, most water on Earth would end up as ice at the bottom of the oceans ... and not be available to sustain life.
- And the least obvious reason is that water rises through plants and animals utilizing capillary action ... defying gravity. If this were not the case, we would have no plants more than a few inches tall ... no trees, no grains, etc. ... and all our blood would be in our feet.
So, dear readers, perhaps primitive man should have been worshiping water as well as the sun.
Seems to me that the need for water is quickly apparent to every creature. Then food. Then sex. Then shelter. Then, for humans, fire. Then the forces of nature such as the sun.
ReplyDeleteThe point was that water is even more fundamental than one would top-of-the-head think.
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