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50 THE PERFECT DESIGN IN THE UNIVERSE IS NOT BY CHANCE
The molecular biologist Michael Denton writes:
The fitness of water [for life] would in all probability
be less if its viscosity were much lower. The structures
of living systems would be subject to far more violent
movements under shearing forces if the viscosity were
as low as liquid hydrogen... If the viscosity of water was
much lower, delicate structures would be easily dis-
rupted . . . and water would be incapable of supporting
any permanent intricate microscopic structures. The
delicate molecular architecture of the cell would proba-
bly not survive.
