The Golden Mean in Anatomy The Golden Mean is a mysterious number that has been found in plants, humans, art and even architecture. It was first discovered and studied by ancient mathematicians in Egypt a very long time ago. In the study of mathematics one realizes that many patterns often occur. None have been more relevant or fascinating that the golden ratio. The golden ratio has many names and is often referred to as the golden section, golden mean, golden proportion and golden cut. The golden mean has been studied and taught for centuries and is still the most interesting and fascinating things to study. The golden ratio has inspired thinkers like no other component in mathematics.
While studying the golden mean it becomes evident
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This ratio gives someone wanting to re-create the human features a very accurate way to measure the size and distances needed between parts of the body. It is incredible to see the relation and impact mathematics has on everything in the world. Many famous pieces of art that depict humans have been known to use the golden ratio in their creations. Leonardo de Vinci used the human body proportioned according to the golden ratio when producing such incredible works such as Mona Lisa, and The Last Supper.
The Golden Mean and Christianity
When studying the golden ratio it is evident that there is symmetry in the entire universe. When studying this subject from a Christian world view it is very easy to see the act of god in the creation of it all. Everything in nature is fixated around this magical number and this is described as Gods fingerprints upon nature. When looking at nature using the sequence it is evident that there is a mathematically precise correlation in the world. This correlation can be seen every day when looking at nature, humans and even astronomy. This to many is proof of a creator.
The argument against Christianity is that everything in the universe happened by a random chance. If this was true and the world was created by an absolute random occurrence then why would this number and sequence occur in almost everything on earth? This sequence is the answer and rebuttal to an atheist’s
Although atheists believe that, no one can disprove that God exists. The most effective method to debate the issue is to look at the evidence. Most cosmologists agree that the universe began about 13.7 billion years ago in an event known as, “The Big Bang”. Professor Hawking says, “Because there’s a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing spontaneously. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something instead of nothing; why the universe exists; why we exist. It’s necessary to invoke God to set the universe in motion,”(Hawking). Hawking says, “the universe exists because the universe needed to exist”(Hawking). Steven Weinberg, Nobel Prize winning physicist explains how the big bang looked. Steven being an atheist enlightens us with his account. Steven says, “In the beginning there was an explosion, and in three minutes, 98% of the matter there is or ever will be was produced. We had a universe,”(Weinberg). Experts in the span of 2,500 years agreed with Aristotle’s idea on the world developing from a steady-state universe.” “Being in a steady-state universe existing with no beginning and no end. The Bible disagrees with their theory,”(Aristotle). Belgian astronomer of the 1920s, Georges Lemaitre, a theist, said, “that the entire universe, jumping into existence in a trillionth of a trillionth of a second, out of nothingness in an unimaginably intense flash of light, is how
In chapter two of the book “Problems from Philosophy”, by James Rachels, the author guided us through the process in which the topic of God and the origin of the universe was discussed and argued. There were many arguments many arguments towards this topic from both a religious belivers view point, and a non-believer. The main points in this chapter were the arguments, like the argument from design, the best-explanation argument, the same-evidence argument, the theory of Natural selection, and the first cause argument.
The structure that furnishes the axis for the rotation of the head from side to side is the:
Since then, the origin of the universe became a very big question to everyone. The curiosity we possess help us seek answers from different questions we can think of. Different hypotheses and ideas were formed with great scientific evidence to prove that the universe began as a single primordial atom. The scientists even found out that the universe is expanding because of the great amount of dark matter present in it. However, with these ideas, the religious thinking of people could not be removed. The concept of God being the Creator of all the things that existed contradicts the views of the theories formed. The stories and verses contained in the bible are different from the results of studies connected to it. Here, I investigate the things
The Cosmological Argument attempts to prove that God exists by showing that there cannot be an infinite number of regressions of causes to things that exist. It states that there must be a final uncaused-cause of all things. This uncaused-cause is asserted to be God. Arguments like this are thought up to recognize why we and the universe exist.
Exercise 4: Endocrine System Physiology: Activity 1: Metabolism and Thyroid Hormone Lab Report Pre-lab Quiz Results You scored 100% by answering 6 out of 6 questions correctly. 1. Which of the following statements about metabolism is false? You correctly answered: d. All of the energy from metabolism is ultimately stored in the chemical bonds of ATP. 2. Thyroxine is You correctly answered: c. the most important hormone for maintaining the metabolic rate and body temperature. 3. Thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) is You correctly answered: b. produced in the pituitary gland. 4. An injection of TSH to an otherwise normal animal will cause which of the following? You correctly answered: d. goiter development 5. Thyrotropin-releasing hormone
If you look at the delicate fabric of a leaf; well balanced and with the purpose of breathing for the plant, it can only convince you of the existence of God. The pecking order of the animals also show a pre-planned hierarchy of animals. It is a well-balanced system that resembles the gears of a watch. The world and universe have natural laws. Things depend on the effects of other things. There exists a cooperation in the universe that can only be contributed to intelligent
Followers claim that such impressive patterns like mathmamatical equaitons and exact numbers that show up continously must be designed by an intelligent being. There order that surrounds the world that allow the life on Earth to exist like how the tilt of the Earth is just right and how the rotaion of the Earth itself allows for seasons. These are amazing feats none the less, but even in a random, chaotic universe order would still develop. "There is such a thing as an ordered, constant, self-perpetuating state of affairs and once such a state came about by chance it would tend to stay for a long time, otherwise it would not be order" (Ash). The fact remains that we are living in such a world that holds both order and chaos simultnously counters the arguement that we live in a perfect world. This amount of order took billions of years to develope and even still there is a chance that the Earth will restart all over again. All it takes is a little bit of chaos that to shatter the progress that has been made. The randomness and chaos that are percived as negative are also nessicary for the developement of life. Without chaos then life wouldn't be able to adapt the way it has nor would there be any varaity in species as a whole. Within the randomness there is order and the combination of chaos have provided the nesscasry building blocks (with a hint of luck) to create the universe and our
Similarly, if all the pieces of the universe did already exist and God only used his Word to piece everything together, what are the odds that someone other than the ultimate creator, God, had caused existence? In addition, theological observations were almost all made from human observations (as seen in the Bible); the experiences of individuals over the course of time are still considered insufficient evidence towards the existence of God. Paley asserts that it is much more likely that a divine being has created earth and the universe other than a group of coincidental and random group of
There is no objective evidence to demonstrate the existence of nature’s creator. If we were to think the design argument was reasonable, then one must also take under consideration the amount of ‘creators’ are required
Supporters of the argument could use the idea that God is unique and outside the laws of nature. But even so, this point weakens the argument as there is no proof of the attributes of God. Many may ask these questions: Why does the universe have to be caused? Why cannot it always have been there?
Unlike the stylized sculpture from the Archaic period or ancient period. In this piece, the sculptor Polykleitos made this male figure as perfect as possible, Polykleitos showed people his remarkable observation and skills on this piece, and most importantly, he created a mathematical formula to make a perfect human figure, in another word, he takes human part as a measuring tool to figure out how different parts of body relate to other parts (Stewart, Andrew). Greeks was more obsessed with the idea o perfect than ever, therefore, Polykeitos developed this technique in order to satisfy their desire of perfection. This shift of the awareness of the concept of beauty is a turning point in the art history, This innovation is combined philosophy and art, It promoted the studying and understanding of the idealistic and perfection in human figures, even influenced the artists after thousands of
Aquinas says we experience causality Nothing is the cause of itself causes are other than their effects. There cannot be an infinite regress of caused causes. If there were an infinite regress, the effects we experience here & now would not exist. Therefore, there must be some first cause and this we call "God." There is also the law of argument by design, we naturally work towards a goal, we also lack the knowing of the outcome, but we reach our goal by being pointed in the direction, therefore there is an intelligent being pointing us in the direction and that would be proof of “God”.
(Renaissance ? Science in the Renaissance) which led to the monumental change in art from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. These mathematical studies are responsible for the famous artwork of Michelangelo and Leonardo, without which the Renaissance would be much less admired by today?s society. The use of depth and perspective, paramount techniques in the art of the Renaissance and of later years, were brought about by the educational studies by artists ? studies that had not been done by artists of previous times (Renaissance ? Science in the Renaissance).
Firstly, we shall focus on the Design (or to use its philosophically technical term, the teleological argument). There are numerous variants of the Design argument, however we shall be focusing on Paley’s version (reference 1) of this theory. Paley’s version of the Design argument is based upon the idea that by looking around at certain features of the world (for example an inanimate object like a rock or say a living creature like dolphin or a person like myself) and theorising that they are too complex and intricate to randomly just manifest. They must have been created by a higher, more intelligent power and thus, if this is accepted as being so, then this proves beyond doubt that God exists.