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When the blood’s oxygen ratio increases
substantially, oxygen reacts with water
to produce highly destructive
byproducts. The body has highly
complex enzyme systems to pre-
vent or defuse such reactions, but
were the body’s oxygen content
to increase further, these systems

could not cope, and every breath we
take would quicken death. About
this, chemist Irwin Fridovich has
this to say:
All respiring organisms are caught
in a cruel trap. The very oxygen
which supports their lives is
toxic to them and they sur-
vive precariously, only by
virtue of elaborate defense
mechanisms. 52

The only thing that protects
us from this dilemma—from oxy- The air we breathe, and
the systems that allow
gen poisoning or oxygen starva-
us to make use of it,
tion—is that oxygen’s solubility and were created in perfect
our bodies’ complex enzyme sys- harmony.
tems are created just as they should
be. Clearly, God has created the air
we breathe, as well as the systems

that enable us to benefit from it, in
perfect harmony.

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