Isaiah 42:9 states, "I (God) will turn rivers into islands and dry up the pools."
This is God talking about how He operates through His shifting, lifting, dropping and settling of the tectonic plates beneath the surface of the earth's crust.
This is part of God sustaining enough land mass above the oceans and rivers and seas to keep things on earth in balance and space available for the current and growing human population- the ongoing preparations for his command to be fruitful and multiply to be carried out on the planet.
Science and scripture meet here in this bit of the word of God which speaks of His great, great power.
This also speaks of his work and involvement in our every day lives and their circumstances.
What do you think?  And where does your thinking begin?  What foundation do your thoughts operate from-  an underlying hypothesis of what you have chosen to believe is ultimate truth?  Can you b

Astronomers now see that in order to have a planet suitable for advanced life such as ours, a long string of arrangements and elements must be in order.
1. The sun must be maintained and reigned in on numerous aspects which impact life on our planet.
2. Gas giant planets must be arranged and monitored to protect life from the erratic features of the universe
3. We need a certain type of spiral armed galaxy to sustain life, 97% of the universe is missing this.
4. A protective zone around the spiral armed galaxy must be built/established in the right "neighborhood"
5. The neighboring galaxies must not be random but more small galaxies than large to assist in its health
6. The spacing cannot be unguided as it has an impact on its symmetry and maintenance.

1.Praise God for arranging the details of the sun's heat, radiance, flares, violent activity and influence on us in the physical realm as well as in the spiritual realm.  Do you see how we can draw from the physical truths to understand the spiritual dynamics of God's sovereign hand in our earthly lives?  Take courage and comfort in the fact that God watches over the volatility of the heat of your trials and tests of faith.  Praise Him for shining enough light on your sins and blessings so as to not show you more than you can handle with Jesus' help. 
2. Praise God for his angels who fight for us in the heavenly realms and sheltering us from the enemy. Praise Him  for giving us the shield of our faith to also knock down the darts of the enemy as well as the insults and unkind words that other humans throw at us.  We are not alone in the violent unloving climate of this temporary world, so take courage.
3. We are so special that God had to go to great lengths after the sun details and the gas giants, then He had to create a fancy symmetrical galaxy with a spiral arm in it.  No other type of galaxy would do, for the special mission of life for human beings over a long period of time.  And not just any spiral armed galaxy, but a very special one with specially ordered parts.  Praise God and delight in the fact that you are this special.  So much attention to detail had to be paid just to get you to have a safe place to stay alive- after your descendants were also given life here.  Praise God for building all of this fancy infra-structure to support our existence to give us the opportunity to meet him and make the mercy arrangements to get to the next world with His son!  He is like a super roller coaster designer- all for us!
4. Praise God for all of the control He exercised over his unbounded power- in order to protect us from dying from its effects in the universe.  Praise Him for using this massive power to make a way for us to experience life without being demolished by its magnitude as in the protective zone needed around the spiral galactic arm swing which would instantly kill all of us had He not made arrangements to set up mighty buffers and barriers on our behalf, sheltering us from its magnificent force as if in the shelter of the palm of his hand or the feathers of his wings.  if He makes such efforts to shelter us from the mightiest creative power of all, why should we doubt that He will not also shelter us from the much lesser powers of deception of the evil one who stalks us on the earth?  May we praise Him today for this great work done for us, and begin anew in greater faith and love of who He is and how He loves us.
5. As we look at this next arrangement made by the Designer to allow life to exist for created beings, it is reminiscent of peeling layer after layer of skin off an onion.  Here we see detail after detail that must be handled and come out perfectly to its specifications as in an architectural diagram in order for life to come to pass at all and then to endure for any time period.  This is no small matter for animals, fish, birds, plants and humans to live and thrive over many years on earth in the universe of God's might.  This next layer of design deals with the type of neighboring galaxies that surround the galaxy that is to house humanity with all of its animal and plant blessings as well.  The mix matters, the sizes matter, the quantity of dwarf galaxies are essential to establishing peace and steadfastness of the galaxy chosen for life.  Think about a spiritual parallel to this aspect...  The surrounding climate, details, bodies, influences all must be approved, or looked into so that they meet certain benevolent specifications.  So it is with our circumstances in earthly day to day situations.  God looks into those bodies of humans, philosophies of deception and truth which are in our society and the neighboring countries who impact us.  He holds back those which would otherwise bring a threat to our spiritual life, He sees to it that we have enough support to maintain balance, promote our growth toward Him and greater faith.  Praise  Him.
6.  Even spacing and distance between galaxies is a factor not ignored or allowed to be unguided.  Also with life in the Spirit, He graciously spaces and times the episodes we face which test our faith.  We have so much to be thankful for.

Did you ever have a list that could bring tears of joy to your eyes?  Obviously I am not speaking of a "To Do" list or a list of bills!  I recently printed out only parts of a long list that delights my heart, mind and soul.  It is a list of scientific features and details that scientists have discovered in the last few years that appear to need to be managed or precisely set just right in order to keep the image of God (human beings) alive on earth!  To me this long list is a list of some of the extreme attention to detail that the Creator invests in me and you.  This is a testimony of his love for His son and for each of us specifically- all the work He planned and executed for us to experience this life and have opportunity for the next eternal life beyond!

Even if some of the things on this list of scientific data ("ingredients of love")are not grasped by my brain, I can appreciate the magnitude of what was arranged for me to be here now. 

In human terms there was a lot of button pushing, brake applying, lever pulling, dial turning, knob twisting,  and the list goes on and on. 

On one page alone there are 49 arrangements that needed to be seen to on my behalf. 
1.The first arrangement was to see to the number and timing of close encounters that earth would have with nearby stars.  If a dice were rolled and that number was too many, then one or more of my ancestors would have been destroyed by the close encounter and I would not have been born.
2. The fifth on the list of details to watch over to get just right for this many generations of humans to get to me and my children was the "absorption rate of planets and planetismals by parent star".  I don't know the details, but I am thankful that in our wild and powerful universe there is a Creator who created a parent star that does not absorb Earth, Jupiter, Venus, Mars us before I have been created and been able to live and meet Jesus.
3. There are at least 14 factors about an individual star that impact life on our earth- even things like its color matter to human civilization.  Some of the other things that cannot be ignored or left to chance are: rotation rate, amount of metal within, age, rate of change in rotation, magnetic field, carbon-oxygen ration, get this one "space velocity relative to Local Standard of Rest"  wow does that smack of God's laws or what!?
4. Number of moons matters, tidal force must be set, magnetic fields need to be gauged in more ways than one, axial tilt needs to be a certain way without fluxuating much, stellar winds need to exist, but not destroy life.
5. Our solar system encounters with interstellar gas clouds and cloud-lets needs to be confined and limited to a certain number and need to occur only at certain acceptable & beneficial time periods.Who would have thought that cloud-lets needed to be guided or minimized ?  So cool!
6.The structure of a comet cloud which surrounds the planetary system needs to be of a certain order and a certain way to allow for simple life to exist even for a few months.
7. The density of baryons in the "Local Volume of the universe" as well as the density of baryons and matter in and around our neighboring Local Group of galaxies" impacts global civilization.
8. How close our solar system is to a black hole during the history of humankind must be within a specific and safe parameter. 
9. The timing of outward migration of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.   So a range/distance boundary for how far these planets can migrate and a set of guidelines or controls on histories time line is indicated by science.
10.For our global benefit (meaning all humans)the nearness of interactions between solar system nebulae and white dwarfs or neutron stars or stellar winds from a neutron star or a collapsar disk- all had to fall into helpful, life-protecting, non-destructive limits not only in areas of power emanated but also in non-harmful and life promoting arrival and departure. 

Are you feeling loved and special yet?  These are just a very few of the 7 pages (49 items each) I printed out of the 22+ pages in the research done.  Some of these are factors needed to be just right just for simple life to exist for 90 days, some are for sustaining intelligent physical life in a globally distributed high-technology civilization.  You can find these on www.reasons.org/links/hugh/research-notes.  Praise God!

Did you ever think that something as "petty" or "unimportant" as termites might matter when it comes to sustaining your ancestors' lives and your own life here on earth?  Well, according to the research done by scientist Hugh Ross from Reasons-To-Believe.Org the quantity of termites was one of hundreds of details that needed to be monitored and precisely determined in order to make a place in space for us here on earth.  If there were any fewer of the little buggers, not enough methane would be released into our atmosphere and earth would be too cold for us to survive here.  And if there were more of these tiny critters we also would not be alive today because the planet temperature would be too hot for us to live.

The termite is not the only tiny creature that functions to balance our temperature on earth.  There are invisible bacteria both in swamps, lakes and oceans also that need to be at a certain precise population to adjust the global warming and cooling which some of us humans think is only impacted by our car pollution and other technological influences.  (If we work on finding a way to raise more low cholesterol, red meat of the ostrich who takes up lots less land than cattle, we could also cut down on the huge methane released into the atmosphere by the slaughter of cows to produce meat.  See "Hidden Treasures In The Book of Job", by Hugh Ross- in Chapter 10.)