Can you believe the variety and beauty of the snowflake? Not one of them are the same! Yet we witness order and design, all snowflakes have six sides. It is incredible!
The more scientists study snowflakes, the more they appreciate this comment from the "New York Times" (Jan 6, 1987):"Snowflakes obey mathematical laws of surprising subtlety."
A snowflake may be composed of a hundred delicate ice crystals in a variety of beautiful designs. The book Atmosphere says: "The endless variety of snowflakes is legendary, and although scientists insist that no law of nature forbids their duplication, two identical flakes have never been found".
Recall God's question: "Have you entered into the storehouses of the snow?"
Many think of clouds as the storehouses of snow. Can you imagine going to these storehouses to inventory snowflakes, examining each one's uniqueness? How did they actually come to be?
Millions of water molecules, which can be arranged in many different ways, may form a single ice crystal, and it takes from one to more than a hundred of these ice crystals to make one snowflake. In addition, the air around a flake shapes its growth. And moisture, temperature, and barometric pressure sculpture snow. And wind molds its shape too. All these factors vary from moment to moment. Falling snow may pass through air masses of varying temperature. The wind may blow it through any number of temperature and humidity ranges in its downward journey. And since no two flakes are likely to follow the same path to earth, each one should indeed be unique.
Yes, we will need more than 80 or 90 years to learn about the intimate details of God's earthly creation.
Recall God's question: "Have you entered into the storehouses of the snow?"
Many think of clouds as the storehouses of snow. Can you imagine going to these storehouses to inventory snowflakes, examining each one's uniqueness? How did they actually come to be?
Millions of water molecules, which can be arranged in many different ways, may form a single ice crystal, and it takes from one to more than a hundred of these ice crystals to make one snowflake. In addition, the air around a flake shapes its growth. And moisture, temperature, and barometric pressure sculpture snow. And wind molds its shape too. All these factors vary from moment to moment. Falling snow may pass through air masses of varying temperature. The wind may blow it through any number of temperature and humidity ranges in its downward journey. And since no two flakes are likely to follow the same path to earth, each one should indeed be unique.
Yes, we will need more than 80 or 90 years to learn about the intimate details of God's earthly creation.
3 comments:
What a timely post. It is snowing in EV's neck of the woods. I've always thought that snowflakes were very unique as well and appreciate the correlation you have made. When we consider the complexity, and at the same time, simplicity of creation, nature, etc how can one not believe?
That's pretty wild. They are beautiful and all different sizes.
Thanks for the info!
6 sides, how about that.
A polygon with 6 sides is called a hexagon.
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