Left side is a human lung. Right side is a tree. The tree breathes in what the lung breathes out. The lung breathes in what the tree breathes out. God's design is incredible.

Nov 6, 2025 · 4:05 PM UTC

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Who designed this God?
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It's nature's design which takes billions of years to reach to this perfection gradually.
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Both lungs and trees develop fractal branching patterns because that’s the most efficient geometry for diffusion, flow distribution, and space filling within constraints.
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How can you not believe with a million miracles like this everywhere you look?
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God isn't the term I'd use, but clearly biology is order, or a proof of negentropy, so that points to an obvious conclusion that whatever caused the universe to come into existence is likely the same mathematical principles that compels it to bare life, and that life is the universe waking up inside of itself. No god needed, just just nothing. And math says nothing turns itself into something.
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Another cool thing about lungs and trees is that they’re both fractals shaped by completely different natures but converge on these similar forms, requiring irrational constants like the golden angle. From an information view, their fractal dimension exceeds the bounds of 3D space, defying purely rational models. They accomplish this via iterative growth over time, compressing vast complexity into finite volume — and most bizarre of all, we can model this mathematically, but only with irrationality as a presupposition. There’s even more complex fractal models, such as fluid dynamics and electromagnetic waves, that rely on imaginary numbers (sqrt(-2)) — an axiomatic impossibility, but used to successfully simulate things like airplane turbulence. Nature is our witness to the limits of our own reason and rationality, and not to mention the epistemic miracle that we can actually know any of this.
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Wherever breath touches blood, the world’s spirit meets the human soul. The branching of the bronchi within the lungs is the image of a tree that has been turned inward; it is the cosmic tree growing within man. — GA 128, The Influence of Spiritual Beings upon Man (1911)
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Not bragging, but it makes my point: I have degrees in Physics and Electrical Engineering. The rigor of the sciences forms my foundation in an unshakable belief that we are all part of a miraculous creation - it defies logic that the practitioners of the "hard sciences" are evolutionists. . God is real, and Jesus is the way.
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That resemblance between a lung and a tree isn’t divine design, it’s fractal geometry at work. Both lungs and trees evolved to maximise surface area for gas exchange. In lungs, it’s oxygen in and carbon dioxide out through alveoli, where in trees, it's the reverse via stomata. So it's not evidence of a conscious designer, but of the same physical and mathematical laws shaping life everywhere.
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God did not design anything, this is nature.
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Absolutely amazing! This beautifully illustrates the harmony in God’s creation. The interdependence between trees and human lungs isn’t an accident, it’s conscious, purposeful, intelligent design. Truly: “The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands” (Psalm 19:1).
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The entire universe looks like that. I kid you not. Life is the meaning of everything and life is intended to do one thing.
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The human genome doesn't even include mitochondria 🤣 If I designed a biological thing, it would have all the code to do what it needed with no unused stuff hanging around that indicates not all mutations work.
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One of the dumbest creationist arguments. We already have far better evidence supported explanations for it. No need to make up a God anymore. And what about the abundant bad "design" in the universe. Going from "These two things look similar" to an omniscient God must have created it, is such an insane leap in logic.
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Neat but this is proof of evolutions derivation. God could've made evolution... but its not like we don't know how it happened.
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Also evolution, what nature mastered with trees also works in our lungs. We are all Earth and earth has birthed many "creatures" that share functional characteristics because they were first found to work. Not necessarily the best but it worked the best of the current options and dominated.
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So when human beings get cancers is that part of intelligent design too?
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Sehr nett. Die Ähnlichkeit ist weil ein paar wichtige Funktion gleich oder ähnlich sind und die physikalischen Gegebenheiten im Rahmen der chemischen Vorgaben unter den Möglichkeiten des biologischen Materials und Herstellungsprozesses ideal ausgenutzt werden. Also eine "ideale" Struktur, welche durch die gewaltige Prüfung der Evolution als einzige bestanden hat und somit übernommen werden kann. Aber in bestimmen Funktionsanforderungen bestehen Unterschiede. Man sieht hier nicht nur den Verlauf der Lungenvenen und Arterien sondern auch der Luft führenden Bronchien, welche ausser dem Transport eines Gasgemisches auch noch die Funktion der Reinigung der Bronchien / Luftwege gewährleisten sollte. ... Nur so zur Info. Very nice. The similarity is because a few important functions are the same or similar, and the physical conditions within the chemical specifications are ideally exploited within the possibilities of the biological material and manufacturing process. In other words, an "ideal" structure that is the only one to have passed the rigorous test of evolution and can therefore be adopted. But there are differences in certain functional requirements. Here, you can see not only the course of the pulmonary veins and arteries, but also the air-carrying bronchi, which, in addition to transporting a gas mixture, should also ensure the cleansing of the airways. ... Just for your information.
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This is our YOU-niverse. We are a soul system orbiting within the anatomy of nature itself. —- PDF / Book: revivalofwisdom.com/products…
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That's really cool
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yes, it’s incredible
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The percentage that trees convert CO2 is greatly overexaggerated. Algae and the health of the ocean is largely overlooked. Average ocean temp changes should be more concerning than they currently are.
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It truly is a masterpiece when you look at it like that. Seeing something so simple yet so profound really fills you with a sense of gratitude for this amazing world we get to be a part of.
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Nature display God's marvelous creation.
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Like the atom and planets.
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“Tree of Life”
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Yes, it is indeed!!
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I’ve seen this a bunch of times you definitely can’t deny the similarities
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❤️❤️❤️
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Funny how that works, something I think we often overlook in general.
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✨🙏💫👏✨
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Don't forget its complex roots, as well.
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If you want to learn more about the reasons for this, I highly recommend that you read the book Scale by physicist Geoffrey West.
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Yes, Lord Krishna is truly the greatest creator.
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Both have evolved to maximize surface area, that's it
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