Explaining Life- Origin, Meaning, Destiny

- Br. Johnny Varghese
(Borivali Assembly, 31st July, 2020)


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Hi everyone. In today's video, we're going to learn about the biblical worldview, which is basically a way of looking at the world and understanding and making sense of the world through the Bible. There are many things that any person will observe if he or she looks around in the world. For example, what this slide is trying to convey is that the world is a place of great beauty. If you look outside, you see the animals, the birds, the aquatic life. You look at the stars and the galaxies, and there is a tremendous amount of beauty and complexity in the universe. On the other hand, our world is also a very painful place, there is a lot of suffering, there is a lot of evil. There is a lot of disease, death and so many unpleasant things. And what we are trying to understand by noting these observations is how can we make sense of these observations. Everybody looks at the world and tries to make sense of what he or she sees. So these are some observations of the world. The world is a place of great beauty. It's also a place of great pain.



The physical world is a world that is characterized by precise, scientific, mathematical law. Nature works according to laws, and these laws can be expressed in the form of abstract mathematics. And perhaps one person who was in the thick of things in discovering these laws is Albert Einstein. And on more than one occasion, he expressed his surprise, or he expressed his amazement at the fact that there seems to be a mathematical order and a mathematical structure to the universe. The obvious question is why. So whether we look at the laws of physics, whether we look at the complexities of genetics, there is a mathematical order which calls for an explanation.



This is a bee. A  male B has one parent, which will be a female, but a female has two parents, that is a male and a female. So if I look at this male and female, well, the total number of parents will be three because this male has one parent, and the female has two. So you have a total of three parents. So now in this generation, I have one male and two females, so the male will have one parent, the female will have to and so that takes the total number of individuals to five. And then the pattern continues. Each male has one parent, each female has two parents. So we now get eight and this will go on. But now notice a trend here. Two can be written as one plus one that is the sum of the preceding numbers. Three can be written as one plus two. Again, the sum of the preceding numbers. So here you see that every number in the sequence is the sum of the preceding two terms. And if we continue this sequence of generations of bees, the same pattern will continue.



Now, these numbers form a special sequence called the Fibonacci sequence. Now, what I want to point out here is that there are mathematical patterns in nature, even where you don't expect them. So in the generations of bees, we find these Fibonacci numbers. The strange thing is that this is the same numbers are found in different aspects of the biological world. For example, here you have a tree. Some trees branch in the form of Fibonacci numbers. If you notice the number of petals of these flowers, you can see here, lower left there are three petals here that are five petals, three, five to one are Fibonacci numbers. Thirteen is a Fibonacci number, eight is a Fibonacci number. So the same pattern that was observed in the generation of bees is also observed in plants and in trees, in pine cones and pineapples. You'll find the number of facets also turns out to be a Fibonacci number. This is a spiral that is constructed by subsequently drawing squares, and the side length of each square is a Fibonacci number. So when you place these squares next to each other, you get a pattern, and thus you get this spiral. So this is also associated with Fibonacci numbers. And then we have some shapes in nature. We have some shells that follow the same spiral pattern.



Many people have also looked at the human body and observed certain patterns related to Fibonacci numbers here. Now the question is why or how, or why is it that our universe has these features, there is a mathematical order, and you have the same order or the same theme in different contexts. Normally, if you look at a work of art, or a work of design that somebody has made, then if there's one person who has made many things, you might find a common theme in all of them, and that seems to be the case with nature. Similarly, mathemat...