"Who could imagine a
more perfect confluence
of design, function and beauty than that represented by
the simplest flower? Any one of its attributes alone is miraculous: the
vivid or subtle display of color; the exquisite dance of sepal,
petal,
stamen
and pistil;
the complex
and wondrous fragrance that no perfume can improve upon. Each year flowers
call out attention with quiet insistence to the eternal rhythms of nature,
striking a resonance
that lies deep within us."....from.Petal
Power.(spectacular
pictures by Amy Lamb, a flower lover and Ph.D. molecular biologist) in
Smithsonian
Magazine.(si.edu),
April, 2000.
Get out into nature, it's
God's church! Emmanuel and Paul went
their often:.Matthew
14:23; Luke 6:12; Galatians
1:17.
If we could see the miracle
of a single flower, our whole lives would change. Each flower is safe under
the grace of God:.Matthew
6:30-33.
A woman without a smile
is like a flower without petals.(*).
Do the flowers you love portray
the beauty and dignity
of the woman you love? 
"The Infinite One is so
intelligent He can open a flower to full bloom without damage to the
petals."....Deepak
Chopra. And so it is that God deals with us, such as, God brings us
along in growth spiritually toward the fullness in Christ:.John
1:16; Ephesians 3:19: 4:13;
1Corinthians
10:13.
Coming to some knowledge
of the hows and whys of a flower's opening gives one
insight
into design. Hail
the gardeners!
Which
came first? Flowers or mites?
The lotus is an unusual
plant, with its self-cleaning leaves. The white lotus, grows in the water,
rises above the water and stays unsullied
by the water. Water is remarkably repelled
without even damping its surface. Why does mud cling to most plants but
not to lotus leaves and why the deeper the mud the more beautiful the lotus?
Re.the
trials of living:."No
mud, no lotus."....Thich
Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Buddhist.monk.
Surfaces of all plants viewed
under an electronic scanning microscope evince
outstandingly designed structures which earlier
microscopes just couldn't capture, such as structures with different
functions suited to the individual plant. With such intricate
design, the artwork of an incrediblly intelligent architect is shared with
us. Get a microscope and look at the leaves of the Buffalo Berry Bush;
berries good to eat
too!
"Usually
rough means dirty and smooth means clean, but strangely, the correlation
between plant surface and cleanliness were exactly backward, the smoother
ones being the dirtiest." ...Wilhelm Barthlott,
botanist, University of Bonn, Germany. Drops of water on the rough surfaces
pick up dust better than on the smoother surfaces, making for efficient
cleaning.
"The work
of two French mathematicians, Yves Couder and Adrien Douady in 1992, show
that the apparent mathematical patterns in plants do indeed arise from
multiiversal
laws
of physical worlds. They are not merely genetic accidents reinforced
by evolution. As always, however, the physical laws must work hand in hand
with the plant's
genes,
for without genes, there would be no plant to develop in the first place."....Ian
Stewart
And all this occurs automatically.
The patterns are there. How did they get there and how do they work in
producing accordingly. Ever consider
what happens when you cut yourself? More amazing automatic things 1,
2,
3,
4.
The law of liberty is another
invisible spiritually operating automatic law:.James
2:12. So is faith and the
underlying workings that enable more of the power of God to function
in you.
The daisy has such a lovely
spiral,
very similar to the nautilus shell.
Its florets.(tiny
flowers).in
its centre, like an apple's skin,
increase in size the further they are to the periphery
as the daisy grows. The daisy adds identical shaped elements to the existing
elements, but a different size.
Phyllotaxy
reveals mathematical design behind the arrangements we see in flowers.
***
The pine cone and a sunflower's
seeds appear with the same pattern as the daisy. Associated spirals also
become evident to the eye. This is why we notice two families of spirals
formed by adjacent
seeds, both related by adjacent Fibonacci
numbers and both very different from the true source of pattern, as
we shall see. Many approaches were purely descriptive. Evolutionary people
avoid explantation of.how
Fibonacci numbers relate to plant growth. The study of patterns
in nature.evinces
astounding design.
