My daughter wants to know: What makes flowers grow so pretty?

I've explained about the science involved and the attraction of pollen-spreading bees and birds, etc.



She is interested in a more mystical or spiritual answer, I think.



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My daughter wants to know: What makes flowers grow so pretty?
Why we find beauty in a baby, a lover, or fresh strawberries is easily explained by evolution. But why we find beauty in flowers and all of nature is not so easily explained. Why do we have this sense of beauty? Perhaps it, not curiosity, escaped with all the pains from the bottom of Pandora's box.
Reply:right on Regwah, thumbs up to you
Reply:oh it all happens by chance... somehow out of the blue these plants start growing for no reason and they develop perfectly symetrical features and beautiful designs...

In a few million years even houses will build themselves and monkeys will be giving lectures about quantum physics to kindergarteners.

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if that explanation doesn't seem plausible, I'd say to look for a "who" not a "what".

ah... someone said that flowers were designed to attract polinators...

hmm... maybe there is a designer.

nah... my house just developed over a long period of time from a grain of sand.
Reply:Keep in mind, other than bees and birds, humans also artificially pollinate flowers. Gardeners and floriculturalists have bred flowers to be pretty for at least hundreds of years.
Reply:just tell her the girl that grows it has beauty that rubbs off on the flowers
Reply:Flowers are designed to attract pollinators, generally insects and insects, like us, tend to be attracted to bright showy flowers.
Reply:It's gods way of showing off.



peace and love
Reply:Simply, because for thousands of years humans have always wanted beautiful flowers and thus made so many of the flowers that are in existence today.
Reply:Maybe something that is open is more attractive than something that is closed.