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A 2020 vision for Snowflake Multiple Symmetries

Do you think that the established scientific explanation for snowflake is still valid?

  • This article makes sense.

    Votes: 1 16.7%
  • This article does not make any sense.

    Votes: 5 83.3%

  • Total voters
    6

Unes

Active Member
Premium Member
The puzzle of Multiple Symmetries

in each Snowflake Structure

A close-up pictures of snowflakes show that there are many tiny blemishes and deformity in the structure of a snowflake, which they have nothing to do with any symmetry, but in our human’s scale we do not see these tiny flaws and blemishes, and we only see multiple symmetrical designs in the beautiful shapes of the snowflakes structures.


Snowflakes-Closeup-2020.jpg


From these observations we can conclude that:

a. These tiny blemishes in the structures of the snowflakes prove that vapor water molecules can get attached randomly and freely to any part of the snowflake, and there is no known restriction or limitation in this process.

b. In the development of a snowflake there is no biological DNA that it could control, or dictate, or force, a growing segment on each arm, to grow in a specific shape, that it would get the same shape in similar segment, on the other arms. Each segment grows totally independent from each other, and they grow randomly, freely, and without any blueprint. The randomness in this process does not produce any similar shape in the arms.

c. It is told that at the beginning in the formation of the snowflake, at first a seed in the form of a hexagon shape diamond dust is formed. After few thousands water molecules get attached to that diamond dust seed in the three directions of x, y, and z (just in that tiny center there are more than 10^15 water molecules.), then that diamond dust seed gets buried in that piled-up center, and the shape of the diamond dust seed cannot influence the shape of the developing arms in any form or shape. The photographs of emerging snowflakes show that arms do not grow simultaneously; each arm grows at a different rate; some arms grow faster than the others, just this very point alone proves that there is nothing to force these growing arms to get similar shape; the randomness absolutely forbids the formation of the similar arms in these conditions, but surprisingly we do see many symmetrical similarities get developed in these very random processes.

Snowflakes-Closeup-2020-B.jpg


So, the existence of these many symmetries in the developments of each snowflake points to the influence of a Conscious Designer in the development of these multiple symmetrical shapes. This Conscious Force exists in the fabric of the Nature, and its influence can be recognized in these kinds of phenomena. This recognition is very similar to our other discoveries; like the discovery of the planet Neptune, or the discovery of neutrino, and many other phenomena. Of course the element of the Conscious behavior distinguishes this Force to be very different from all the other phenomena.

The existing claim that the atomic structure of the vapor water molecule is responsible for the formation of multiple symmetries in the structures of the snowflakes, is as bogus as that I claim the atomic structures in the ink molecules has produced all the masterpiece paintings in our art museums.

Scientists have been trying very hard to explain the multiple symmetrical shapes in the structure of each snowflake, but as you can see all their hard efforts have fallen way too short explaining this natural phenomenon. In fact scientists have been desperate trying to avoid acknowledging the influence of this Active Conscious Force in these natural processes; but the influence of this Conscious Force in this Natural phenomenon is very clear and it is glaring at us without any ambiguity, and only a stubborn person can avoid acknowledging this shining evidence.
 
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Eddi

Agnostic
Premium Member
I thought this thread was about delicate and easily offended young people

Edit: I voted that it makes sense, but I doubt a "conscious force" is truly at work
 

ratiocinator

Lightly seared on the reality grill.
Not an expert but it looks to me from a few searches that the process is pretty well understood. However, even if it was a complete mystery, a concious designer doesn't follow at all. That's basically an argument from ignorance.

The existence of an unknown does not make your unsupported guess or faith based beliefs any more believable.
 

danieldemol

Well-Known Member
Premium Member
The puzzle of Multiple Symmetries

in each Snowflake Structure

A close-up pictures of snowflakes show that there are many tiny blemishes and deformity in the structure of a snowflake, which they have nothing to do with any symmetry, but in our human’s scale we do not see these tiny flaws and blemishes, and we only see multiple symmetrical designs in the beautiful shapes of the snowflakes structures.


View attachment 38108


From these observations we can conclude that:

a. These tiny blemishes in the structures of the snowflakes prove that vapor water molecules can get attached randomly and freely to any part of the snowflake, and there is no known restriction or limitation in this process.

b. In the development of a snowflake there is no biological DNA that it could control, or dictate, or force, a growing segment on each arm, to grow in a specific shape, that it would get the same shape in similar segment, on the other arms. Each segment grows totally independent from each other, and they grow randomly, freely, and without any blueprint. The randomness in this process does not produce any similar shape in the arms.

c. It is told that at the beginning in the formation of the snowflake, at first a seed in the form of a hexagon shape diamond dust is formed. After few thousands water molecules get attached to that diamond dust seed in the three directions of x, y, and z (just in that tiny center there are more than 10^15 water molecules.), then that diamond dust seed gets buried in that piled-up center, and the shape of the diamond dust seed cannot influence the shape of the developing arms in any form or shape. The photographs of emerging snowflakes show that arms do not grow simultaneously; each arm grows at a different rate; some arms grow faster than the others, just this very point alone proves that there is nothing to force these growing arms to get similar shape; the randomness absolutely forbids the formation of the similar arms in these conditions, but surprisingly we do see many symmetrical similarities get developed in these very random processes.

View attachment 38109

So, the existence of these many symmetries in the developments of each snowflake points to the influence of a Conscious Designer in the development of these multiple symmetrical shapes. This Conscious Force exists in the fabric of the Nature, and its influence can be recognized in these kinds of phenomena. This recognition is very similar to our other discoveries; like the discovery of the planet Neptune, or the discovery of neutrino, and many other phenomena. Of course the element of the Conscious behavior distinguishes this Force to be very different from all the other phenomena.

The existing claim that the atomic structure of the vapor water molecule is responsible for the formation of multiple symmetries in the structures of the snowflakes, is as bogus as that I claim the atomic structures in the ink molecules has produced all the masterpiece paintings in our art museums.

Scientists have been trying very hard to explain the multiple symmetrical shapes in the structure of each snowflake, but as you can see all their hard efforts have fallen way too short explaining this natural phenomenon. In fact scientists have been desperate trying to avoid acknowledging the influence of this Active Conscious Force in these natural processes; but the influence of this Conscious Force in this Natural phenomenon is very clear and it is glaring at us without any ambiguity, and only a stubborn person can avoid acknowledging this shining evidence.
I voted this article does not make any sense.

A) Because it is argument from ignorance (I don’t know how snow flakes form does not equal that they can have no natural means of formation)

B) Because the presence of flaws in their formation points at best to a flawed designer, which I suspect is not what you want us to believe about the designer.
 

exchemist

Veteran Member
The puzzle of Multiple Symmetries

in each Snowflake Structure

A close-up pictures of snowflakes show that there are many tiny blemishes and deformity in the structure of a snowflake, which they have nothing to do with any symmetry, but in our human’s scale we do not see these tiny flaws and blemishes, and we only see multiple symmetrical designs in the beautiful shapes of the snowflakes structures.


View attachment 38108


From these observations we can conclude that:

a. These tiny blemishes in the structures of the snowflakes prove that vapor water molecules can get attached randomly and freely to any part of the snowflake, and there is no known restriction or limitation in this process.

b. In the development of a snowflake there is no biological DNA that it could control, or dictate, or force, a growing segment on each arm, to grow in a specific shape, that it would get the same shape in similar segment, on the other arms. Each segment grows totally independent from each other, and they grow randomly, freely, and without any blueprint. The randomness in this process does not produce any similar shape in the arms.

c. It is told that at the beginning in the formation of the snowflake, at first a seed in the form of a hexagon shape diamond dust is formed. After few thousands water molecules get attached to that diamond dust seed in the three directions of x, y, and z (just in that tiny center there are more than 10^15 water molecules.), then that diamond dust seed gets buried in that piled-up center, and the shape of the diamond dust seed cannot influence the shape of the developing arms in any form or shape. The photographs of emerging snowflakes show that arms do not grow simultaneously; each arm grows at a different rate; some arms grow faster than the others, just this very point alone proves that there is nothing to force these growing arms to get similar shape; the randomness absolutely forbids the formation of the similar arms in these conditions, but surprisingly we do see many symmetrical similarities get developed in these very random processes.

View attachment 38109

So, the existence of these many symmetries in the developments of each snowflake points to the influence of a Conscious Designer in the development of these multiple symmetrical shapes. This Conscious Force exists in the fabric of the Nature, and its influence can be recognized in these kinds of phenomena. This recognition is very similar to our other discoveries; like the discovery of the planet Neptune, or the discovery of neutrino, and many other phenomena. Of course the element of the Conscious behavior distinguishes this Force to be very different from all the other phenomena.

The existing claim that the atomic structure of the vapor water molecule is responsible for the formation of multiple symmetries in the structures of the snowflakes, is as bogus as that I claim the atomic structures in the ink molecules has produced all the masterpiece paintings in our art museums.

Scientists have been trying very hard to explain the multiple symmetrical shapes in the structure of each snowflake, but as you can see all their hard efforts have fallen way too short explaining this natural phenomenon. In fact scientists have been desperate trying to avoid acknowledging the influence of this Active Conscious Force in these natural processes; but the influence of this Conscious Force in this Natural phenomenon is very clear and it is glaring at us without any ambiguity, and only a stubborn person can avoid acknowledging this shining evidence.

There is a simplified explanation here:
Symmetry of Snowflakes

But, as others have pointed out, there a very tired old non-sequitur in what you say. The existence of symmetries in nature motivates the scientist to understand the underlying physical principles, not to throw up his hands in baffled wonderment and say, "It must be a Conscious Designer".

You are trying a God-of-the-Gaps gambit, in other words: "We can't understand it at the moment ergo Goddidit."

"God of the Gaps", by the way, was a phrase invented by a Methodist lay preacher called Charles Coulson, whose lectures (on mathematics for chemists) I attended at university.;)

P.S. I suggest you look carefully at the beautifully clear picture of a snowflake in the linked article. You will be able to see that it is NOT exactly symmetrical at all. There is a 6-fold symmetry in the directions of growth (because chemistry ;)) but not the extent of growth at the detailed level.
 
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Cooky

Veteran Member
The claim that "the atomic structure of the vapor water molecule is responsible for the formation of multiple symmetries in the structures of the snowflakes" seems incomplete as an explanation.

...Those are just words. It doesn't explain *how* it works because it doesn't describe the forces that are involved. It would be equally as valid to say "because".
 

Cooky

Veteran Member
There is a simplified explanation here:
Symmetry of Snowflakes

But, as others have pointed out, there a very tired old non-sequitur in what you say. The existence of symmetries in nature motivates the scientist to understand the underlying physical principles, not to throw up his hands in baffled wonderment and say, "It must be a Conscious Designer".

You are trying a God-of-the-Gaps gambit, in other words: "We can't understand it at the moment ergo Goddidit."

"God of the Gaps", by the way, was a phrase invented by a Methodist lay preacher called Charles Coulson, whose lectures (on mathematics for chemists) I attended at university.;)

P.S. I suggest you look carefully at the beautifully clear picture of a snowflake in the linked article. You will be able to see that it is NOT exactly symmetrical at all. There is a 6-fold symmetry in the directions of growth (because chemistry ;)) but not the extent of growth at the detailed level.

What prevents snowflakes from bifurcating in random directions?
 

exchemist

Veteran Member
What prevents snowflakes from bifurcating in random directions?
That's quite a bit of chemistry, but it results from firstly the shape of the water molecule and secondly the lowest energy orientations for water molecules to take up when forming a crystal, which, thirdly, are determined by hydrogen bonding. It turns out that the structure of the resulting lattice of molecules has hexagonal symmetry. The relevant passage in Wiki on this is here, though I don't pretend it is especially easy reading or a self-contained full explanation:
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The accepted crystal structure of ordinary ice was first proposed by Linus Pauling in 1935. The structure of ice Ih is roughly one of crinkled planes composed of tessellating hexagonal rings, with an oxygen atom on each vertex, and the edges of the rings formed by hydrogen bonds. The planes alternate in an ABAB pattern, with B planes being reflections of the A planes along the same axes as the planes themselves.[6] The distance between oxygen atoms along each bond is about 275 pm and is the same between any two bonded oxygen atoms in the lattice. The angle between bonds in the crystal lattice is very close to the tetrahedral angle of 109.5°, which is also quite close to the angle between hydrogen atoms in the water molecule (in the gas phase), which is 105°. This tetrahedral bonding angle of the water molecule essentially accounts for the unusually low density of the crystal lattice – it is beneficial for the lattice to be arranged with tetrahedral angles even though there is an energy penalty in the increased volume of the crystal lattice. As a result, the large hexagonal rings leave almost enough room for another water molecule to exist inside. This gives naturally occurring ice its unique property of being less dense than its liquid form. The tetrahedral-angled hydrogen-bonded hexagonal rings are also the mechanism that causes liquid water to be densest at 4 °C. Close to 0 °C, tiny hexagonal ice Ih-like lattices form in liquid water, with greater frequency closer to 0 °C. This effect decreases the density of the water, causing it to be densest at 4 °C when the structures form infrequently.
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From : Ice Ih - Wikipedia

So that gives the symmetry. The reason for the tree-like shape (they are called "dendritic" crystals, from the Greek for tree, dendros) is that the tendency for molecules to add onto the lattice structure is greater at the tips than on flat edges. I think there can can be several reasons for this, but I don't remember them. I think it may be something to do with the structure at the tip being more "incomplete" than along a straight edge, and therefore being at higher energy, which can be lowered by adding molecules at that point. Or something. But I'd need to dig into it to find out.

Sometimes the shortest questions have the longest answers.;)
 

shunyadragon

shunyadragon
Premium Member
The defects in the structure of snowflakes are due to dust and chemical impurities. The variation in the snowflakes follows a fractal pattern, and is not random. Yes, no two snowflakes are alike (almost.all), but the pattern of the design of snowflakes is naturally symmetrical the angles of the bonding of water molecules.
 
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exchemist

Veteran Member
Just a short addendum to post 9. There is a layman's explanation of the two modes of crystal growth, via branching and via facets, on this link, from Caltech: Snowflake Branching

Suffice it to say that the scientists have NOT thrown up their hands in baffled wonderment and invoked a Conscious Designer: they have studied the phenomenon, in exquisite detail, and have a pretty good understanding of the process. So the conclusion of the OP is bunk (as most of us knew anyway:D).
 

shunyadragon

shunyadragon
Premium Member
I thought this thread was about delicate and easily offended young people

Edit: I voted that it makes sense, but I doubt a "conscious force" is truly at work
Not the "conscious force" at work here, but an "unconscious force." where the mind has been disengaged with reality.
 
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