Maybe I'm behind the times because I only just saw "Frozen" a few days ago. I'm pretty sure I had the soundtrack memorized before I even saw the movie because it was everywhere…but luckily enough I actually thought it was pretty cute when I finally saw it.
Sisters, friendships, adventure, self-discovery, betrayal, love…it was all there, packaged up cute enough for eight-year-old girls to dream about for the next six months.
But what was it that I got out of "Frozen"?
One word set off a train of thoughts that I have not been able to quiet in my mind. Well, two words actually, if we're counting the alliteration that the songwriters so cleverly incorporated into Elsa's hit ballad.
And for some reason, even though I'd heard "Let It Go" a million times before actually seeing the movie, I never actually heard this word until I watched her on screen.
It's at 2:45 in case you're wondering.
FRACTALS.
I heard that and thought, "That sounds cool, I've heard about fractals before, but I don't really remember what they are."
One of the first videos I found about them was this one. Totally worth the hour of watching, promise.
I think this guy presents a lot of really interesting information. My own personal belief about all that is that those laws are eternal, but that God is also eternal and omniscient with perfect knowledge of those laws to use them to create. If you have more questions about that feel free to ask me :). D&C 93:36
And while I watched his presentation about fractals, I thought of another video I watched about the Fibonacci sequence (see it here)…and then I thought "I wonder if there are any correlations between the Fibonacci sequence and the Mandelbrot set."
And then, because I'm currently enrolled in a human embryology course, I wondered "Do we find Fibonacci's and Mandelbrot's in human development?"
Yep, we sure do folks.
Fibonacci sequence mapping expressed in a human fetus..and a nebula, that's cool too
Fractal vessel patterns in the retina of the eye
HOW COOL IS THAT? And now I wonder where those or other patterns are everywhere else in the world, like in animal embryology or rock formations or molecular structures or light and sound waves. Ah, there is so much to learn and I don't have enough time to research it all tonight, which frustrates me to no end! But I still have a lifetime of learning ahead of me and then some, and that is a consoling thought.
That, dear friends, is what I got from "Frozen." For all of the advancements of the human mind there really is so little that we know, but the fact that we can even comprehend what we already do know further tells me that we really are children of God. I'm grateful for that blend of science and religion, it resonates so well with me…that truly feels like light. Maybe we try too much to distinguish concepts of creationism from secularism instead of looking for the ways they might support each other. We don't have all the answers right now and I'm okay with that. I definitely can't answer all the questions out there, but it just makes sense to me that God uses science. I've got a video that explains that further too :).
There's some food for thought!
