The Peanut Prophet and the Wisdom Already There

George Washington Carver would rise before dawn at Tuskegee Institute, walking the Alabama woods in what he called his "consultation with the Creator." One morning in 1921, he carried a handful of peanuts into his laboratory and asked God a peculiar question: "Lord, why did You make the peanut?" He later told Congress that the answer came not as invention but as discovery — over three hundred uses were already woven into that humble legume, waiting to be found.…