God is infinite loving kindness whose entire being is focused on the salvation of humans.  Biology, physics, mathematics, engineering and medicine help us understand the World, but there is much more about life that remains a mystery. Even though the sum of human knowledge supposedly doubles roughly every couple of years or less, we should never get to the point that we think we know so much about how the Universe work and assumes that God is unnecessary because we cannot actually explain all the workings of the Universe without the need for a Creator. God has been unswerving in his loving kindness and stubborn love. Time after time, as in the legend of the Shepherd who risked ninety-nine sheep to go after one that had gone astray, the Savior tries to convey God’s absolute love for every single one of his children. To perceive this love, we must to feel it to the very marrow, and respond in the only way possible, in profound and total gratitude for the wonders of God’s grace. The only way to make sense of the Savior’s extraordinary admonitions as to how we should behave toward our fellow people is t see them as cut to fit this understanding of the God who loves all of his creations (human, animals, nature, metals, water, air and so on) without pausing to calculate their worth or due. God has given us what we need. Look at the natural way which God’s love has come to us. #RandolphHarris 1 of 7

It takes an immense power of nature to create one Universe. In natural philosophy there is a monotheistic belief in the Universe as a creation of God. The incredible fine-tuning of the Universe presents the most powerful argument for the existence of an imminent creative entity we may call God. Science and religion are two sides of the same expansive impulse to understand the World, to know our place in it, and to marvel at the wonder of life and the infinite cosmos we are surrounded by. There is an apparent changelessness of the Heaven. The Universe, like every organic entity, is composed of parts that change at different and sometimes very low rates; furthermore, the greater the quantity of matter, the slower its rate of change. This applies to the immense celestial bodies as well as to terrestrial objects; although the ocean does not seem to change when seen as a whole, if it were divided into a sum of small volumes of water, the water in each container would exhibit rapid change. Although we know more about the oceans than we used to, we still know very little about the vast majority of the ocean. Different ocean colors indicate different levels of plant growth in the ocean. The Galapagos are a group of islands in the Pacific Ocean along the equator. The islands are known for their unique and diverse mix of wildlife. Of all the places in the World, there is probably no place like the Galapagos. #RandolphHarris 2 of 7

Because of its unique location and the influence of ocean currents, the Galapagos have allowed species to evolve in ways that can be found nowhere else. Where else can you find penguins and coral reefs in the same location? Earth is really an ocean planet. Life on land exists in this thin layer that begins a few feet below the surface of the soil and extends up into the tops of the trees. However, life in the ocean, life is found all the way from the surface to the very bottom of the deepest part. The deepest part of the ocean, and of Earth, that we know of is 6.8 miles (10.9 kilometers) deep. Because of this, the oceans contain 99 percent of the living space on the planet. Yet, we know very little about most of the ocean. This is especially true for the middle and the deeper parts far away from the coast. The deepest portion of the Pacific Ocean, the Challenger Deep (36,037 feet or 10,984 meters deep) is located in the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific. It is a subduction zone and experiences perpetual darkness and freezing cold. The Mariana Trench, an underwater gash in Earth’s crust that is five times longer than the Grand Canyon and much, much deeper. The trench forms where two tectonic 180 million year old tectonic plates (jigsaw-puzzle-shaped pieces of Earth’s crust) crunch into each other. As the plates collide in slow motion, the edges push downward into a V shape, which is called the Mariana Arc, creating a valley that has no equal on our planet. #RandolphHarris 3 of 7

The Mariana trench is a place mysterious, scientists have almost no clue as to what—if any—sort of lifeforms might be living there. If one plunges deeper than 3,280 feet (1,000 meters) into the ocean, there is no Sunlight to spawn life. Water temperature often settle in at just above freezing. And food is not particularly plentiful. The water pressure in the trench is nearly 1,000 times greater than at sea level. In fact, the pressure is so high that it will crush nearly any creature (or humamade object), unless that animal or vessel is built specifically to withstand those extremes.  Downward motion of air rushing to fill the place of a body that is being removed beneath it, and the natural movement of air upward may also be caused by an empty space created in a higher region. A body can perform a motion other than its natural one only as long as a force is acting on it. A projectile is kept moving by the constant push of the air behind it, that is an immaterial kinetic power which is imparted by the thrower to the object thrown. This impetus keeps the projectile moving until it is consumed, whereupon it resumes its natural movement downward. And the theory of light explains that light is also related to the concept of the impetus, in that light as an impetus is emitted from a luminous body and propagated to the eye according to the laws of geometrical optics. #RandolphHarris 4 of 7

Together with the belief of creatio ex nihilo, in which God is put above nature and transcends all creation, the Universe is conceived as a vast mechanism functioning accord to the physical laws with which matter was imbued by God at the moment of creation.  This particular area of the sea, then, is more than a little inhospitable. However, these expanses are not lifeless. A few occupied and unoccupied vehicles have parted the waters of the trench in recent years, proving that there are indeed organisms living and even thriving in this nearly alien Water World.  There are 21 underwater volcanoes. The Mariana forearc: Northwest Eifuku volcano vents fluid rising from so-called white smokers on the submarine region. This Champagne vent is found to be releasing bubbles of liquid sulfur and carbon dioxide, active mud volcanoes along with mineral-laden water.  The liquid coming out of these chimneys is 217 degrees Fahrenheit (103 degrees Celsius). At the Daikoku submarine volcano, scientists discovered a pool of molten sulfur 1,345 feet (410 meters) below the ocean surface, something seen nowhere on Earth. Food in the Mariana Trench is extremely limited, because the deep gorge is far from land. Leaves, coconuts and trees rarely find their way into the bottom of the trench, and dead plankton sinking from the surface must drop thousands of feet to reach Challenger Deep. #RandolphHarris 5 of 7

Some microbes rely on chemicals, such as methane or sulfur, while other creatures gobble marine life lower on the food chain. Some marine life has adapted to living at that sea level, these lifeforms are wonderfully mysterious, and also some of the toughest creatures around. The vulnerable looking fish are also some of the top predators. There are octopus, jellyfish, and other giant creatures. There is also possible extinct Megalodon Sharks (60 foot shark) hiding in the trenches. There are also creatures such as the dragonfish, which produces its own light in order to attract prey, mates, or both. Others like the hatchet fish have evolved enormous eyes in order to try and catch as much of the scarce light that makes it that deep. Some other creatures simply try and be avoided, which normally means either becoming translucent or red, because this absorbs any blue light that has managed to make its way down to the depths. There are also some gigantic single-celled amoebas with a size of more than 4 inches (10 centimeters), snailfish, and huge crustaceans known as supergiants.  To deal with the pressure and the cold, which in effect sets the fat that forms the membranes of the body’s cells. If left unchecked, it would cause the membranes to crack and break, so in order to get around this, deep sea creatures have lots of unsaturated fat in their membranes, which help to keep them fluid. However, is this enough to survive the deepest place known on the planet? #RandolphHarris 6 of 7

Like other oceanic trenches, the Mariana Trench has been proposed as a site for nuclear waste disposal, in the hope that tectonic plate subduction occurring at the site might eventually push the nuclear waste deep into the Earth’s mantel, the second layer of the Earth. However, dumping of nuclear waste is prohibited by international laws. Furthermore, plate subduction zones are associated with very large megathrust Earthquakes, the effects of which are unpredictable for the safety of long-term disposal of nuclear waste within the hadopelagic ecosystem. A recent study revealed that a plastic bag, like the kind sold at grocery stores, was found in the deepest known part of the World. Scientist found it by looking through the Deep-Sea Debris Database. Other debris came from material like rubber, metal, wood, and cloth, and some is yet to be classified. One type of bacteria DNA was found which was less than 86 percent similar to other known forms. A level of 90 percent similarity is usually taken to mean the lifeform is unknown. The DNA substantially different to anything previously recorded, suggesting they may be new to science. The trenches have been sealed off from the outside World for millions of years, meaning any life within it has evolved in complete isolation. “After putting aside all possible elements of contamination, DNA was found that did not coincide with any of the well-known types in the global database. We are calling this life form unclassified and unidentified,” reports Sergei Bulat of the St. Petersburg Institute of Nuclear Physics. #RandolphHarris 7 of 7