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Exploration of Earth’s upper mantle continues to uncover evidence for supernatural design. Geologists and chemists discovered the sources for variations in the viscosity of the upper mantle: water concentration and mantle temperature. Since the level of variations in upper mantle viscosity must be carefully fine-tuned in order to get the plate tectonics that makes the long-term survival of advanced life possible, such fine-tuning implies additional fine-tuning in the geographical distribution of plate subduction rates and plate boundaries. All of this exquisite fine-tuning of Earth’s mantle is readily explained by an intelligent, supernatural Designer.

·         Jacqueline E. Dixon et al., “Lateral Variation in Upper Mantle Viscosity: Role of Water,” Earth and Planetary Science Letters 222 (2004): 451-67.

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