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Nick Send message Joined: 11 Oct 11 Posts: 4344 Credit: 3,313,107 RAC: 0 |
The Fibonacci numbers series has been used for over 50 years by the followers of Elliott wave theory. This theory being used to predict major and minor moves in stock markets using the Fibonacci series to count wave movements. Here the Golden ratio is also used to mark expected change in market direction. The Kite Fliers -------------------- Kite fliers: An imaginary club of solo members, those who don't yet belong to a formal team so "fly their own kites" - as the saying goes. |
Ex: "Socialist" Send message Joined: 12 Mar 12 Posts: 3433 Credit: 2,616,158 RAC: 2 |
Are we implying that because the Fibonacci patterns exist, that means there is a designer? To me the puzzle of the phenomena simply implies there are more mysteries of the universe to be unlocked. Science- specifically physics, is working everyday to further our understanding of what's going on beneath it all. Simply stating there is a designer and that that's the reason for these patterns in nature, is akin to saying evolution follows patterns because of design. There are better explanations. #resist |
Intelligent Design Send message Joined: 9 Apr 12 Posts: 3626 Credit: 37,520 RAC: 0 |
:0) The above posts do tell me alot. I do miss Fred. |
Matt Giwer Send message Joined: 21 May 00 Posts: 841 Credit: 990,879 RAC: 0 |
Uhh....... Through glasses? Unvarnished Haaretz Jerusalem Post The origin of the Yahweh Cult |
Matt Giwer Send message Joined: 21 May 00 Posts: 841 Credit: 990,879 RAC: 0 |
The Fibonacci numbers series has been used for over 50 years by the followers Then everyone must have bailed before the last stock market crash and no one lost money. The gulf between used and used successfully should always be examined before such statements are made. Unvarnished Haaretz Jerusalem Post The origin of the Yahweh Cult |
Intelligent Design Send message Joined: 9 Apr 12 Posts: 3626 Credit: 37,520 RAC: 0 |
Spirograph! Indeed! Did you note the circle with the pin in it? Fibonacci numbers? The Golden Spiral? [smile] perhaps? |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30608 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Going nowhere fast. |
Matt Giwer Send message Joined: 21 May 00 Posts: 841 Credit: 990,879 RAC: 0 |
Were numbers discovered or invented? If numbers were invented patterns were invented. They are merely an artifact of the invention. Nature is better explained by repetitive rules than numbers, see Wolfram's book. That some number patterns sort of match some rules is just an artifact. But if numbers were discovered then we would expect them to behave independently of other things and have no particular relationship to anything else save in some grand unification theory. We would expect to be able to isolate "numberness" from things as protons can be isolated. Were the gods invented or discovered? If the gods were invented we would expect them to match their nature. The Roman gods were arbitrary, capricious and fickle. The Christian god is good and kind but comes with tedious and tendentious explanations as to why it only appears to be arbitrary, capricious and fickle when it really is not. Jews have an immature, jealous, petty, vindictive god who can be outmaneuvered and out-thought by a clever human as in Abraham negotiating over Sodom. As with the Romans its actions are not in need of explanation to anyone familiar with small children. But if the gods were discovered then we would not expect them to have any particular relationship to our reality any more than we could expect to predict the behavior of any other alien species. Unvarnished Haaretz Jerusalem Post The origin of the Yahweh Cult |
Nick Send message Joined: 11 Oct 11 Posts: 4344 Credit: 3,313,107 RAC: 0 |
The Fibonacci numbers series has been used for over 50 years by the followers As I stated Mat, by the followers. I suggest you read a little about this first then you will understand that using Elliott wave theory is more an art than a proven science. The above posted by me was an example of where Fibonacci summation series is being used, and at no time did I state that it was being used successfully. It was not a statement claiming that Elliott wave is at all successful at predicting accurately movements in the stock market. The Kite Fliers -------------------- Kite fliers: An imaginary club of solo members, those who don't yet belong to a formal team so "fly their own kites" - as the saying goes. |
skildude Send message Joined: 4 Oct 00 Posts: 9541 Credit: 50,759,529 RAC: 60 |
BTW you couldn't make those nice lines with the spirograph set that way. In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face. Diogenes Of Sinope |
William Rothamel Send message Joined: 25 Oct 06 Posts: 3756 Credit: 1,999,735 RAC: 4 |
Yes there is structure in Nature and in Mathematics. Send me a private message and I will send you a paper on the subject which starts with a good discussion of Fibonacci (Leonardo of Pizza). The ratios and the spirals turn out the way things have to be when growth occurs. |
Matt Giwer Send message Joined: 21 May 00 Posts: 841 Credit: 990,879 RAC: 0 |
The Fibonacci numbers series has been used for over 50 years by the followers An art is no a science and thus cannot qualify as a theory. Making claims beyond the evidence or without evidence is a believer thing. Unvarnished Haaretz Jerusalem Post The origin of the Yahweh Cult |
Nick Send message Joined: 11 Oct 11 Posts: 4344 Credit: 3,313,107 RAC: 0 |
An art is no a science and thus cannot qualify as a theory. Making claims beyond the evidence or without evidence is a believer thing. What ever your feelings on it is, Mat, the fact is that Elliott Wave theory works on "utilising" the Fibonacci summation series, the subject of this thread. The Kite Fliers -------------------- Kite fliers: An imaginary club of solo members, those who don't yet belong to a formal team so "fly their own kites" - as the saying goes. |
Intelligent Design Send message Joined: 9 Apr 12 Posts: 3626 Credit: 37,520 RAC: 0 |
Ah, to a point we agree. Thank you gentlemen. And we went someplace fast. :) |
Matt Giwer Send message Joined: 21 May 00 Posts: 841 Credit: 990,879 RAC: 0 |
And inapplicable in the context in which it was raised because it is an art and does nothing useful. Unvarnished Haaretz Jerusalem Post The origin of the Yahweh Cult |
Intelligent Design Send message Joined: 9 Apr 12 Posts: 3626 Credit: 37,520 RAC: 0 |
You--just don't really---understand do you? Good night.... |
Nick Send message Joined: 11 Oct 11 Posts: 4344 Credit: 3,313,107 RAC: 0 |
Yes, have a good night Intelligent Design, Matt...have a good day... The Kite Fliers -------------------- Kite fliers: An imaginary club of solo members, those who don't yet belong to a formal team so "fly their own kites" - as the saying goes. |
Intelligent Design Send message Joined: 9 Apr 12 Posts: 3626 Credit: 37,520 RAC: 0 |
Fair enough, how about it denotes Design? I think with other evidence, related and unrelated it's a darn good start. |
OzzFan Send message Joined: 9 Apr 02 Posts: 15691 Credit: 84,761,841 RAC: 28 |
The plural of anecdote is not data. Noticing a pattern in nature does not suggest "Design" (with a capitol D); its merely similar to how we recognize faces in strange patterns. Its an interesting observation, but until we have more data, drawing such a strong conclusion from it would be too presumptuous. |
Nick Send message Joined: 11 Oct 11 Posts: 4344 Credit: 3,313,107 RAC: 0 |
Possibly picking up the Fibonacci series in nature is evidence of nature using positive feed back when structuring/building various objects. To explain this idea...Nature builds (1) and it works. So to progress it then adds another (1) so now this structure has two. It still works and so to progress it adds (1) to the (2) and it now has (3). Still it works but due to progress it tries to improve on the structure so it now adds to the successful (3) the previous successful (2) and now the structure has (5). If this still works it then progresses to adding to the successful (5) the previous successful (3) so now this structure has (8). Nature carries on doing this until such time as the progress stage finally fails to produce a successful result. Nature must use some form of feed back when attempting to construct things like cells for instance so maybe seeing the Fibonacci summation series in nature is possibly evidence of this? The Kite Fliers -------------------- Kite fliers: An imaginary club of solo members, those who don't yet belong to a formal team so "fly their own kites" - as the saying goes. |
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