https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/12/fibonacci-curves-god/ Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:50:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/12/fibonacci-curves-god/#comment-1710 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:50:26 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/12/fibonacci-curves-god/#comment-1710 –“are you picking up a pattern!!??”Yeah: everything that the Christian intellect stumbles at understanding or explaining = G-d. ( after the initial WOW!! of actually having an intellectual epiphany wears off)

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/12/fibonacci-curves-god/#comment-1709 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:22:44 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/12/fibonacci-curves-god/#comment-1709 If the Fibonacci sequence is proof of “god”, then why isn’t in the Bible? why did Hindu mathematicians and Arabs have it first?

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/12/fibonacci-curves-god/#comment-1708 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:51:06 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/12/fibonacci-curves-god/#comment-1708 Lucas and Beth: Indeed! There are many, many errors in this video.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/12/fibonacci-curves-god/#comment-1707 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:27:12 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/12/fibonacci-curves-god/#comment-1707 I heard from a math prof I TAed for that the curve of the shell of the chambered nautilus doesn’t actually fit the Fibonacci spiral as closely as was once thought.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/12/fibonacci-curves-god/#comment-1706 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:56:24 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/12/fibonacci-curves-god/#comment-1706 (begin math pedant) It is not true that f_{n+1}/f_n is the golden mean (as he states). Rather, the golden mean is the limit of the ratios. (end math pedant)I love how the thing ends–“are you picking up a pattern!!??” Ok, yes. There are lots of patterns in nature, and some of them are the result of mathematical laws (as this one probably is, though I don’t know enough about it to say what law it is exactly). This does not mean that god created these patterns.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/12/fibonacci-curves-god/#comment-1705 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:09:04 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/12/fibonacci-curves-god/#comment-1705 So, a human mathamatician creates an equation that describes a number of natural phenomenon, and……….GOD! (somehow)And subatomic particles curl? I would advise anyone else watching this to check out all of his claims. Some are overstated, to say the least.

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