Monkey’s in a Tree and God’s Divine Design……
Shapes, Numbers, Patterns, And The Divine Proportion In God’s Creation
I read the above article when it first came out and ever since I have had this facination with looking up into trees. It’s a neat way to teach your children (us homeschooler’s) a better way to understand Fibonacci numbers. If you are saying “Fibo What?!” Go read the article….lol. I like to study the branches and how they spiral down the trunk. I can’t help but look around at creation and wonder how there are so many that think this was an accident. I am a literal creationist. There is another camp that is called the “Theological Evolutionist.” This group tries to mesh the theories of Darwin/Evolution with God’s account of what He did. I just can’t help but think if God said 6 days……God meant 6 days. This is what I believe. I also believe there is enough evidence to prove a worldwide flood event….so I don’t think the Noah’s Ark story is a fable. I do believe there was a whale of tale with Jonah. It’s okay if you don’t believe what I believe….I won’t hold it against you…:)
This tree was planted on my husband’s Aunt’s property around 1961. It came out of a little bucket. It’s a big treeeee now.
I thought it looked like looking thru a veil.
I just figured out if I don’t bold the script…it can actually be seen and read…:) Sorry Folks….
May 28, 2007 at 6:03 pm
Those are great pictures.
I love looking up into trees, at nature in general, and seeing what is up there. God does have a way with making things….each one, no matter that it is the same species, is completely unique. Nope no accident there.
November 17, 2007 at 11:28 am
I knew what fibonacci numbers were, but I have never heard it put that way before. (Thanks for the link, I enjoyed it)
As for creation….I have issues with both views so maybe you can help me out.
I believe in creation. I don’t particularly see any credibility in the Big Bang theory…that life is accidental or that we’re some alien kids science experiment growing in a petrie dish somewhere doesn’t sit right with me.
BUT. What were dinosaurs? Now I am pretty hazey I’ll admit with regaurds to knowing my scriptures, but are there really big beasts in the bible anywhere? I don’t know how to explain dinosaurs. (For the record, I’m not convinced that carbon dating is reliable. I don’t get how we date something that has no human record to date it from. KNWIM)
I agree with you about the flood. Even the Australian Aboriginies have cave paintings about a flood. And they had no way of knowing about Jesus prior to 1777.
I sometimes wonder about stories like Jonah and the whale, but then I think about all sorts of miraculous things that have happened over time. I mean, who would have ever thought that it would be possible to communicate so instantly with a person on the other side of the world? Or that someday we would invent robots that we could catapualt into space and it would send back images of another planet? Those things at time seem wildly improbable too.
I’m more inclined to creation, science keeps trying to prove to me that evolution is the truth, but they can’t prove to me that creation isn’t. And proving that something else is false is often the best and quickest way to prove something to be true.
wow I really make no sense when it’s late at night and I am hearing things!
November 18, 2007 at 3:10 am
It sounds like dinosaurs are mentioned in the Bible – the Behemoth found in Job 40:15-24. Definitely not an animal like we have today.
Also, dinosaurs would not be capable of living in the world today. I’d have to research it again, but the largest animal that can exist today is the elephant. Any larger, and they can’t support their own weight. And the largest flying dinosaur was a LOT larger than the largest bird today – and couldn’t fly because it’s wings aren’t strong enough to support it’s body weight. That tells me that conditions pre-flood were really different than we have now.
November 18, 2007 at 3:19 am
Found it – at least something similar.
http://www.kronia.com/symposium/holden.txt
Not that I accept his conclusion, but he does state the problem well.
November 18, 2007 at 8:44 pm
Thanks! I was suer the Bible did say something about a huge beast….but wasn’t sure where to find it.
That article is very interesting. With the idea that gravity itself being different to support such huge life forms, imagine the impact of being able to prove it and the ripple effect that could have on the climate change debate?! Among other things. I am just not sure how that would work or how one could prove it.
(Something else I am not convinced of is climate change. Maybe when they have something a little more conculsive and reliable to work from than a proposed model, maybe then I will give it more thought.)
I just think science has it’s limitations, that sometimes we need to acknowledge that and admit that just maybe there is a God, there is a design, there is a plan. Because there are many things in this world science cannot prove and that’s were faith comes in.
Thankyou for the links. (And the bible reference, that kept me awake at night!)