Constantine wanted to know why the heavens were not filled with all the offspring of the immortal Roman gods since they had been procreating for centuries. Good question. Since Constantine became the Roman emperor after A. D. 312, he could get away with verbally asking what others were only allowed to think about.
Here are his exact words as recorded by his mentor, Eusebius of Caesarea.
Again, this supposition has gained credit with the ignorant multitude, that marriages, and the birth of children are usual among the gods. Granting, then, such offspring to be immortal, and continually produced, the race must of necessity multiply to excess: and if this were so, where is the heaven or the earth, which could contain so vast and still increasing a multitude of gods?1
There is a box in our culture today that we are told to get into and not to come out. It’s the box of evolution, Darwinian mythology. It says that we cannot ask why it appears that intelligent design is behind the creation. “Nature” seems to speak of a Designer behind some of its design. Today’s science students and scientists themselves are not supposed to mention such a designer since evolution teaches that random selection, just chance, made all things come to be. Evolutionists are in the majority. (Some professionals are intimidated if they refuse the Darwinian mythology.)
One such design is found in the beautiful Fibonacci sequence (structure or pattern). Math teachers present it to math students. The pattern gets its name from the Italian mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci, ca. AD 1175 to 1250. Fibonacci taught us his sequence of adding two previous numbers to get the third number. (0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34…) We see it often in the pine cone, pineapple crust, sunflower seed line-up, spirals such as sea shells, broccoli, cauliflower, and many flower petals.
He just identified it for us. Now it is up to us to “blow the whistle” on evolutionists who want us to keep quiet, to keep from speaking out to expose the “random chance” part of evolution.
Can we learn something from Constantine and our Italian mathematician friend, Fibonacci?
1A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church. Eds. Philip Schaff, and Henry Wace. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1971, p. 563. (“CHAPTER IV. On the Error of Idolatrous Worship.”)