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takes part in no chemical reactions). To quote Michael Denton: "It seems
that, like all other properties, the reactivity of water is ideally fit for both its
biological and its geological role." 80
Additional details concerning the fitness of the chemical properties of
water for life are constantly being revealed as researchers investigate the
matter more. Harold Morowitz, a biophysics professor from the University
of Yale, makes this comment:
The past few years have witnessed the developing study of a newly un-
derstood property of water (i.e., proton conductance) that appears to be
almost unique to that substance, is a key element in biological-energy
transfer, and was almost certainly of importance to the origin of life.
The more we learn the more impressed some of us become with nature's
fitness in a very precise sense… 81

Water's Ideal Viscosity
Whenever we think of a liquid, the image that forms in our minds is that
of a substance that is extremely fluid. In actual fact, different liquids have
highly differing degrees of viscosity: the viscosities of tar, glycerin, olive oil,
and sulfuric acid for example vary considerably. And when we compare
such liquids with water, the difference becomes even more pronounced.
Water is 10 billion times more fluid than tar, 1,000 times more so than glyc-
erin, 100 times more than olive oil, and 25 times more than sulfuric acid.
As this quick comparison should indicate, water has a very low degree
of viscosity. Indeed, if we discount a few substances such as ether and liq-
uid hydrogen, water appears to have a viscosity that is less than anything
except gases.
Does water's low viscosity have any importance for us? Would things be
different if this vital liquid were a little more or a little less viscous? Michael
Denton answers that question for us:
The fitness of water 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