Water

[RagingAlien]

I personally always found water to be a strange thing. It just so HAPPENS to have a formation that can solve almost anything, is bi-polar, inodore, invisible, and un-tastable (excuse my vocabulary, don't know what the actual words might be.), it also has a PH of 7 (null acidity) and is also an important part to all life on the planet.

Anyone finds that to be way too much coincidence? I think it might have been some extraterrestrial beings that put water on this planet, or might be the only proof of God yet known.

Note this mixes Philosophy, Religion and Science.

[Nepycros]

I personally always found water to be a strange thing. It just so HAPPENS to have a formation that can solve almost anything, is bi-polar, inodore, invisible, and un-tastable (excuse my vocabulary, don't know what the actual words might be.), it also has a PH of 7 (null acidity) and is also an important part to all life on the planet.

Anyone finds that to be way too much coincidence? I think it might have been some extraterrestrial beings that put water on this planet, or might be the only proof of God yet known.

Note this mixes Philosophy, Religion and Science.

Or................................

Hydrogen formed atomic bonds with oxygen.

"Coincidence" that all living things need water? My friend, if you've heard anything about evolution, it's that groups of species in the beginning of life on Earth adapted to their environment, learning to use the resources there as fuel. We were then to eventually need water. Should the entire thing have been changed, and water became some other kind of liquid, then we'd adapt and learn to survive on that. The first prokaryotes learned to turn water into chemicals needed for energy, and they'd have done the same for anything else. No "God" or "aliens" involved.

[Neopergoss]

The Gaia hypothesis explains the apparent coincidence of how hospitable our environment is to life with the claim that organisms and their environment are both part of a self-regulating system. Basically, organisms evolve in such a way that they make their environment more conducive to life over time. Makes sense to me.

[RagingAlien]

yes, but what about the rest? water is inodore, transparent, untastable and has neutral acidity (which had not been decided with water as a basis), and so on?

[OldTrees]

yes, but what about the rest? water is inodore, transparent, untastable and has neutral acidity (which had not been decided with water as a basis), and so on?

I would assume: It has no noticeable taste or smell because we are constantly tasting/smelling it.
It is transparent because: The light waves its e- absorb are outside the small visible light spectrum and its index of refraction is low enough that it doesn't have a high reflectivity.
It has neutral pH because the first definition of pH dealt with the concentration of H3O+ in a solution. This definition was expanded upon later but it did serve as a H2O basis.
"The Arrhenius definition states that acids are substances which increase the concentration of hydronium ions (H3O+) in solution."

[killybob]

the tastelessness of water is less to do with water itself than us. early on in the development of complex life we evolved to not recognize the taste of water. reason being that if we  could taste water and not to drink it we would die. simple as that. water is remarkable just as any other liquid is, it just happens that we use it more than any other substance (other than oxygen).