Fibonacci Sequence in Nature

Fibonacci Sequence

Individuality -- the trademark of any artist, designer, or architect, each desires a uniqueness to their creation, a quality that separates it from any other.  Man naturally has this individuality.–his fingerprint. There are 6.5 billion people on the face of the earth and no two fingerprints are the same.  Everything we touch or make contact with is branded with a small expressed image revealing to all who see it - Who was there! 

Around 1200 AD  a man named Leonard Pisano, better known as Fibonacci, discovered a sequence of numbers that created a very interesting pattern.  The sequence begins with the numbers 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, and continues indefinitely.  Each number is obtained by adding the last two digits together.  A rectangle with the length and width of any two of the numbers of this sequence forms what is known as the golden rectangle, a perfect rectangle.  A golden rectangle can be broken down into squares the size of the next F numbers down and below.  If we were to take a golden or perfect rectangle, break it down into smaller squares based on Fibonacci’s sequence, and divide each with an arc, the patterns begins to take shape.   We begin to see Fibonacci’s spiral…the spiral in and of itself is insignificant; its importance is revealed in where we find it.

Take for example the sunflower the display of its florets are in perfect spirals of 55, 34 and 21 -  sequence of  Fibonacci; the fruitlets of the pineapple creates the same sequence;  the pine cone does the same.  As currents move through the ocean and the tide rolls onto the shore,   the waves that bring in the tide, curve into a spiral that can be mathematically diagrammed onto a plot:  1, 1, 2,3,5,8,13,21,34 and 55.

Buds on trees, sand dollars, starfish, petals on flowers and especially the nautilus shell are formed with this exact same blueprint.  With each segment of growth, the nautilus adds to itself one more value on Fibonacci’s scale.  This blue print can be seen around us on a small scale every day.  But the greatest example of all is directly above our heads.  At an average of 100, 000 light years across, even the spiral of the galaxies above us are formed with the exact design that the tiny shell is formed. This sequence, our blueprint, appears to be the trademark of a Designer, a proof of a Creator, something left behind Indicating the One who is there – a fingerprint.   As we span our universe from the tiny flower to the awe inspiring galaxies, we see the fingerprint of God.  And we are forced to ask:  “Who is God?”