Perhaps you didn't know that when people refer to "capillary action," that said action is understood in terms of molecular attractions between water molecules which are themselves understood as electrochemical attractions between atoms which are themselves analyzed in terms of quantum mechanics, subatomic particles, etc. There is a leading edge of physics beyond which is a vast unknown, but the area you are insisting is a mystery ain't it. You are bludgeoning with your own willful ignorance. Again, the problem I have with creationism is not that you are doing it wrong but that you are doing it right.
Yes, I realize I'm not supposed to know you're a creationist. I haven't admitted being an evolutionist, either. I'll remove the mystery and announce it now. I have become an evolutionist. The creationists drove me to it last week.
Accuracy alert! There's attraction between the water molecules and the molecules of the sides of the capillary tube, said attraction being the original source of the lift. But adjacent molecules are pulled along by their attraction to those water molecules attracted to the sides. And so proceed.