>>1182498The beauty you're referring to consists mostly of mathematically significant patterns and ratios found in naturally formed objects.
These patterns, fractals and spirals, reliably result in anything procedurally generated. You may have seen fractal computer artwork with the same patterns, or heard of procedural generation used in game development to easily generate large amounts of non-repeating complexity for terrain or textures.
Procedural generation is just the accumulation of complexity from simple starting conditions according to simple rules. Simple enough to naturally occur, it turns out (like "If you don't survive long enough to breed, your genes aren't passed on")
Products of natural processes do look very designed. Snowflakes for example are geometrically intricate, rdially symmetrical and no two are alike.They are hexagonal because water molecules consist of three atoms, so they interlock into hexagonal grids during crystallization at sufficiently low temperatures.
They are fractally laid out because their growth is a kind of procedural generation against the constraint of air temperature, seeking the path of least resistance (also why your blood vessels, CNS and other branching networks in your body are fractally laid out)
No two are alike because they pass through different thermal conditions on the way down, affecting the freezing of each differently. But if you didn't know any of this, you'd conclude they are obviously sculpted by an invisible supernatural artist just because they look too complex to form by themselves and you don't know of any other plausible way for it to happen.
That's the error in reasoning you're making with respect to every other example of complexity and beauty in nature. As with the snowflake, there is in every case a provable, sensible explanation for the natural formation of natural objects, you just don't know those explanations. So your brain saves itself some calories by concluding it happened by magic.
