Re: The Golden Ratio

On Wed, 13 Mar 2024 13:39:38 +0100, the following appeared
in talk.origins, posted by nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J.
Lodder):

Athel Cornish-Bowden <me@yahoo.com> wrote:
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On 2024-03-07 22:31:27 +0000, Bob Casanova said:
 

On 7 Mar 2024 17:51:40 GMT, the following appeared in
talk.origins, posted by dgb (David)
<david@nomail.afraid.org>:
 

On 7 Mar 2024 at 17:41:02 GMT, "J. J. Lodder" <J. J. Lodder> wrote:
 

dgb <david@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
 

On 7 Mar 2024 at 09:38:23 GMT, "J. J. Lodder" <J. J. Lodder> wrote:
 

Kalkidas <eat@joes.pub> wrote:
 

dgb (David) <david@nomail.afraid.org> Wrote in message:r

Does this occur by accident?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio
Or by design?

 
It will never be known.

 
There is nothing to know there,
 
Jan

 
The thing to know, Jan, is that it hasn't all happened by accident!  :-D

 
It hasn't happened at all.

 
You are, of course, mistaken.
 

Wrong. Nothing "happened"; the so-called Golden Ratio, like
all mathematical relationships which describe observed
phenomena, is a property of physical

 
mathematical
 

 reality, no more. And,
of course, no less.

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You are wasting your breath. Bob is an incurable materialist,
incapable of abstraction and idealisation,
>

Ummm, I didn't say that there are no parts of math which are
abstract, only that all math relationships WHICH DESCRIBE
PHYSICAL PHENOMENA are properties of those phenomena.

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