My thought is this: True, genuine faith in God is the result of a personal experience with God. True faith does not come from some theology or set of rituals you’ve been taught. It comes from something that occurs in your life that you cannot rationally explain apart from God’s existence. This is an incredibly humbling, even humiliating, experience. For those whose self-image relies so heavily on the greatness of their own intellect, it is far more difficult than for most people to realize that their intellect amounts to nothing in comparison to that of the One who could be their Creator. Add to that the atheistic, naturalistic biases of academia in general and great minds are often in a position in which they would have to give up all that they are to acknowledge God in their circle of peers, let alone to truly seek and worship Him. I was surprised and disappointed by a recent documentary in which Hawkings proclaimed “there is no God.” Whatever our beliefs, if we have intellectual honesty we have to admit that we really do not know with certainty. His rationale was “Time didn’t exist before the big bang, so there is no time for god to make the universe in.” Exactly. All faiths that believe in one God understand Him to be eternal, outside the bounds of space and time, and that was understood long before current scientific understands of the universe. It wasn’t that many years ago that Hawking said, “The laws of science, as we know them at present, contain many fundamental numbers, like the size of the electric charge of the electron and the ratio of the masses of the proton and electron. . . . The remarkable fact is that the values of these numbers seem to have been very finely adjusted to make possible the development of life.” So what is the Who, How and Why of behind the universe being finely adjusted to support life?

Thanks! Nice site design

Very talented band. I’ve seen them in person at my church. Several images on the video came from the site, so they must have visited here too. One correction: Euclid didn’t coin “golden ratio.” He referred to it as ““dividing a line in the extreme and mean ratio.”

Listen to the Annie Moses Band singing “Golden Ratio” on the Youtube link below.They are a family of Nashville musicians–the six kids are about 15 to 30–on various string instruments from banjo to harp to viola to cello.

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Sam

The ending “ology” means a the study of a branch of knowledge, so phiology would be the study of phi, and a phiologist the one who does the study. The ending “phile”, from the Greek philo, means loving or fond of, as in audiophile, so that could make someone who loves phi then a phiphile. Any other suggestions?

Just put the horizontal arm at 0.618 of the height of the cross. So a 10″ tall cross would have the horizontal arm at 6.18″