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Amazing Creations 42

Richard Gunther

A typical forest leaf is just the right size to gather sunlight, and yet
not so large as to block sunlight light to its other leaves.
It has a waxy surface to repel water, and probably to protect itself
from UV rays - so its food-making cells can operate without damage.
The wax also reflects light off the curved sides of the leaves,
transferring light downwards to other leaves.

Look at a leaf close up and you will see the green chlorophyll,

where oxygen and sugar are produced, in an efficient proess
which Man's science still cannot duplicate.

The impact of light on a chloroplast releases an electron, which
creates a chemical instability. High-energy chemical bonds shift to
compensate and atoms are borrowed from water and carbon dioxide.
Thanks to this reaction, two molecules are produced, one of water
and one of sugar.

This is just the beginning of the ineredibly complex chain of
reactions which the leaf performs, but just this feature alone is
evidence enough that behind the leaf is a wise and wonderful
God, a master scientist, and a molecular biologist of the highest
possible rank.