Post by S.W.A.T.K. on Jan 28, 2012 23:50:45 GMT -5
1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89,144,233,377,610,987,1597,2548...and so on.
What you have just begun to read is the most interesting series of numbers ever to be discovered by man and preserved for man since the time of Noah.
I could easily use this as an argument for the existence of an intelligent designer, but I don't have to, because it's obvious to the dimmest of children that the universe has order, as evidenced by the existence of mathematics. 1+1=2 unless you think reality is arbitrary.
No, instead, I want to delve into the fact that there is a simple pattern out there that defines the very world we live in. Everyday, these numbers surrounds us, and things happen around us in accordance with their sequence, but we don't really stop to notice it all, do we?
Pinecones, pineapples, trees, bees, the human body, the stock market -- everything relates to this sequence somehow.
Many people try to dismiss it, saying that we only see this pattern in nature because we are looking for it. But it isn't that we are finding it that proves its existence -- it's that we're not finding everything. We are just finding this pattern.
Ever wonder why it is so difficult to find a four-leaf clover? Because it is unnatural to find any flower with exactly four petals. Because the number 4 is not part of the Fibonacci Sequence. There are flowers with one petal, with two petals, with three, five, eight, thirteen, twenty-one, and thirty-four petals, but there are not flowers with just four petals. Not naturally.
Mutations do occur, deviations from perfection, but traces of the original pattern of the world remain today.
You see, to the man who looks at the world and says that there is no order, no pattern, no math, this sequence of numbers is entirely arbitrary and meaningless. But to the man who looks at the world with open eyes, this sequence of numbers represents the world as Adam saw it.
There's a lot more to the past than we think.
What you have just begun to read is the most interesting series of numbers ever to be discovered by man and preserved for man since the time of Noah.
I could easily use this as an argument for the existence of an intelligent designer, but I don't have to, because it's obvious to the dimmest of children that the universe has order, as evidenced by the existence of mathematics. 1+1=2 unless you think reality is arbitrary.
No, instead, I want to delve into the fact that there is a simple pattern out there that defines the very world we live in. Everyday, these numbers surrounds us, and things happen around us in accordance with their sequence, but we don't really stop to notice it all, do we?
Pinecones, pineapples, trees, bees, the human body, the stock market -- everything relates to this sequence somehow.
Many people try to dismiss it, saying that we only see this pattern in nature because we are looking for it. But it isn't that we are finding it that proves its existence -- it's that we're not finding everything. We are just finding this pattern.
Ever wonder why it is so difficult to find a four-leaf clover? Because it is unnatural to find any flower with exactly four petals. Because the number 4 is not part of the Fibonacci Sequence. There are flowers with one petal, with two petals, with three, five, eight, thirteen, twenty-one, and thirty-four petals, but there are not flowers with just four petals. Not naturally.
Mutations do occur, deviations from perfection, but traces of the original pattern of the world remain today.
You see, to the man who looks at the world and says that there is no order, no pattern, no math, this sequence of numbers is entirely arbitrary and meaningless. But to the man who looks at the world with open eyes, this sequence of numbers represents the world as Adam saw it.
There's a lot more to the past than we think.
