{"id":1706,"date":"2010-01-16T21:30:48","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T03:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davintosh.com\/?p=1706"},"modified":"2010-01-16T21:30:48","modified_gmt":"2010-01-17T03:30:48","slug":"the-amazing-snowflake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/16\/the-amazing-snowflake\/just-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"The Amazing Snowflake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Sunday our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.central-baptist.org\/adult-communities\/frist-hour.html\">Adult Community<\/a> class at church began a study of our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.central-baptist.org\/images\/stories\/Information\/bgc_statement_of_faith.doc\">church&#8217;s Statement of Faith<\/a>. That document begins with the belief in the Word of God, so our study dealt with the ways that God reveals Himself to us; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gotquestions.org\/general-special-revelation.html\">General Revelation and Special Revelation<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>As part of the evidence of General Revelation, the teacher showed us some microphotographs of snowflakes, and I was amazed. Amazed that something so small and so commonplace (especially this year!) could be so beautiful and so complex. The photographs he used (and that I have linked below) came from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowcrystals.com\/\">SnowCrystals.com<\/a>, which is part of CalTech&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.its.caltech.edu\/~atomic\/snowcrystals\/photos\/w041219b055.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.its.caltech.edu\/~atomic\/snowcrystals\/photos\/x041219b055.jpg?resize=194%2C200\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"194\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.its.caltech.edu\/~atomic\/snowcrystals\/photos\/w031224a130.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.its.caltech.edu\/~atomic\/snowcrystals\/photos\/x031224a130.jpg?resize=231%2C200\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"231\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.its.caltech.edu\/~atomic\/snowcrystals\/photos\/w031230b033.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.its.caltech.edu\/~atomic\/snowcrystals\/photos\/x031230b033.jpg?resize=182%2C200\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"182\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;How full of the creative genius is the air in which these are generated!<br \/>\nI should hardly admire more if real stars fell and lodged on my coat.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n&mdash; Henry David Thoreau, 1856<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Sunday our Adult Community class at church began a study of our church&#8217;s Statement of Faith. That document begins with the belief in the Word of God, so our study dealt with the ways that God reveals Himself to us; General Revelation and Special Revelation. As part of the evidence of General Revelation, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12,2,10],"tags":[266,267],"class_list":["post-1706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-favorite-things","category-fun","category-just-stuff","category-the-world","tag-ice-crystals","tag-snowflakes"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}