There is a pretty good scientific explanation for why it can be found in plant life and the rest just seems to be confirmation bias, wishful thinking, sharpshooter fallacy, etc. Still very interesting subject with the huge amount of pop culture claims attributed to it.

I could also use a bacon cheeseburger as proof of a creator about as effectively. The Fib shows up all over the place in nature because it is also part of nature. Not a real stretch of the imagination or any kind of mathematical "magic" there.

Did it have anything to say about distribution of matter in the universe resembles a mandelbrot?

I'd say that a lack of intelligence about design doesn't prove the man made theory of intelligent design.

wow! I gave that example to my son. Now, I have to retract.

My creative process professor this past spring semester at school told us that the golden ratio was created by an intelligence because "it couldn't just happen out of nothing". He had a habit of spewing right-wing BS and creationist BS at us.