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Old 08-25-2004, 11:30 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Rekna
So my question is how can something occur so frequently and so perfectly and not be caused by something? To me this is the single greatest fact pointing to a higher being, some sort of creator of the universe. I’d love to see someone explain Phi without acknowledging the very likely existence of a divine creator.
You know, I didn't even see this when I first read your post. Apparently I was so happy to see a post about mathematical oddities that I just wanted to reply rather than finish reading.

Now that I am aware of it, I will have to disagree with your premise. I think that the commonality of phi is more than just coincidence, but not neccessarily indicitave of the existence of a Creator. There are many things about nature we do not understand, and mathematics is only in its infancy where it relates to modeling the real world. The more knowledgable we become, I think we will begin to understand better why we see phi so often.

Some people, after all, say that the architecture of the pyramids indicates a precise knowledge of pi. Others, however, say that the architecture of the pyramids indicates that they used a wheel to measure out their dimensions. Pi was simply a byproduct of that process.

As an agnostic, the jury's still out on the existence of God, but I'm not putting phi in to the evidence pile just yet.
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