The Golden Ratio

"It is a wonderful world, and a wonderful life. One of our pastors referred to most back yards as God's living room. Why that term? Nature abounds, right outside the window. Some of God's creatures, great and small can be seen out a living room window. We can see and enjoy nature, with that mysterious Golden Ratio, being the building block for much of it." 

The Golden Ratio. Or better-known part of the Fibonacci sequence, is seen all over nature. Both in the great and small, this Golden Ratio seems to appear. Why is that? It is almost as if there was some kind of a great designer when the universe was created. Do you mean like God? Exactly. It is one of the best examples of God's handywork in creation.

The ratio of 1 to 1.618 seems to pop up all over the place. We can even see it in art and architecture. But mostly we see it in nature. From the smallest of small to the largest galaxies. How does it happen? Why is the ratio always 1 to 1.618? Why not 1 to 2.5? Why not 1 to just about anything? Good questions with no good answers - except one. Intelligent design. 

This ratio, called Phi (uses the symbol φ), is even seen in the human body. How so? Measure the tip of a person's head to the floor. Then the person's belly button to the floor, and guess what? You get a ratio of 1 to 1.618. Snowflakes, bee colonies and so forth - you can see evidence of this Golden Ratio. But that is as far as I am going with this. Why? It is a math thing, and to go deeper down this rabbit hole, goes beyond my ability to understand or explain. But many of math brainiacs surely understand this. All I can do is just wonder why it exists.

There is an old saying, that if you want to see evidence of God, just look around. God's fingerprints are all over creation. Another example? Just look at the magnificent art which goes into many of the colorings and markings of birds and animals. The "artwork" of this creation many times is jaw dropping. We can blame this kind of stuff on aliens or accidents of nature - or we can accept that these things are products of intelligent design, by the greatest of all designers.

It is a wonderful world, and a wonderful life. One of our pastors referred to most back yards as God's living room. Why that term? Nature abounds, right outside the window. Some of God's creatures, great and small can be seen out a living room window. We can see and enjoy nature, with that mysterious Golden Ratio, being a building block for much of it. 

Someday, we will probably understand all these things which are so beautiful, yet mysterious to us. But for right now, they are simply ours to enjoy.