The Pattern of Creation!!!

Revelation 4:11

Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.



In God's creation, we can find a "Divine Proportion" that is displayed out in shapes, numbers, and patterns that can only be the result of a supreme intelligence. This "Divine Proportion" existing in the smallest to the largest parts, in living and so called non-living things, reveals the awesome handiwork of God and his mode of operation in beauty, function, and order.



Let us first begin with a shape, then discuss how a number pattern and a ratio (the Divine Proportion) are a designed part of these shapes and patterns and are found throughout creation.



Lets start with the spiral.



This spiral is visible in a wide range of things such as:



Hurricanes, spiral seeds, the cochlea of the human ear, ram's horn, sea-horse tail, growing fern leaves, DNA molecule, waves breaking on the beach, tornados, galaxies, the tail of a comet as it winds around the sun, whirlpools, seed patterns of sunflowers, daisies, dandelions, and in the construction of the ears of most mammals.



This spiral follows a precise mathematical pattern. If you look at this spiral in sunflowers you will observe two sets of spirals (rows of seeds or florets) going round in spirals of opposite directions. When these spiral rows are counted in each direction, you will discover that in almost all cases that their numbers, depending upon the size of the flower, will be of the following ratio:



if small, 34 and 55; if medium 55 and 89; if large 89 and 144



These numbers are part of the Fibonacci numbering sequence, a pattern discovered around A.D. 1200 by Leonardo Pisa (historically known as Fibonacci).



Each succeeding number is the sum of the two preceding numbers.



The sequence of these numbers is 1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89,144,233, to infinity. This numbering pattern reveals itself in various ways throughout all of nature, as we shall see.



When the smaller number of this pattern is divided into the larger number next to it, the ratio will be 1.618; if the larger one next to it divides the smaller number, the ratio is very close to 0.618.



This 1.618 ratio is called "The Golden ratio" and has been found to be incredibly pleasing to the human eye, it produces what is called a Golden Rectangle. If the short side of the rectangle is 1, the long side will be 1.618. This is the ratio used by the ancient Greek and Egyptian builders in designing many of their works of art and megalithic structures throughout the world such as the Great Pyramid.

Many of the things you use are (approximately) patterned after the golden rectangle—credit cards, playing cards, postcards, light switch plates, writing pads, 3-by-5 and 5-by-8 cards, etc.



Artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Van Gogh, Vermeer, Sargent, Monet, Whistler, Renoir, and others employed the golden proportion in many of their works



Another place we find the Fibonacci numbers are in the spiral arrangement of leaves around a plant's stem (called phyllotaxis). This spiral pattern can be seen by viewing the stem from directly above, and noting the arc of the stem from one leaf base to the next, and the fraction of the stem circumference which is inscribed.



In each case the numbers are Fibonacci numbers.



Examples: In an elm the arc is 1/2 the circumference; in beech and hazel, 1/3; apricot, oak, 2/5; in pear and poplar, 3/8; in almond and pussy willow, 5/13; and in some pines either 5/21 or 13/34.




Why did God arrange them this way?




This pattern assures that each leaf will receive its maximum exposure to sunlight and air without shading or crowding other leaves.



When we realize that the information to produce these spirals and numbers in living things is stored in the DNA, should we then be surprised to find that the DNA molecule is 21 angstroms in width and the length of one full turn in its spiral is 34 angstroms, both Fibonacci numbers?



The DNA molecule is literally one long stack of golden rectangles.



The pattern holds true from the very large to the very small things in the creation.



From the structure of the atomic nuclei, distribution of fission fragments, distribution of numbers of isotopes, and the distribution of particles emitted. To the time period of each planet's revolution around the sun is compared in round numbers to the one adjacent to it, their fractions are Fibonacci numbers!



These shapes, numbers, spirals, and the divine proportion are ubiquitous in their presence throughout all of creation. They are found in living and nonliving phenomena. Their symmetry, beauty, and mathematical preciseness are evident in every aspect of nature.



The Creator of the universe is a personal, intelligent Being, who created these things as a visible fingerprint of His invisible, yet personal existence.



Job 37:5

God thundereth marvellously with his voice; great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend

BY: Kurt