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<div>To me the miracle is not so much order, as it is relation, and thus as Loet says “order is always constructed (by us)”-</div>
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<div>but the miracle is the very existence of anything (us, the rest of the universe).</div>
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<div>Why there is something rather than nothing (that would be much simpler)?</div>
<div>To me miracle is how it all started. From vacuum fluctuations? But where the vacuum comes from?</div>
<div>But then, why should we call it a miracle? </div>
<div>Perhaps the better name is just natural law, finally equally inexplicable and given, </div>
<div>but sounds more general and less mystic.</div>
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<div>Best,</div>
<div>Gordana</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Fis <<a href="mailto:fis-bounces@listas.unizar.es">fis-bounces@listas.unizar.es</a>> on behalf of Loet Leydesdorff <<a href="mailto:loet@leydesdorff.net">loet@leydesdorff.net</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Organization: </span>University of Amsterdam<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span>"<a href="mailto:loet@leydesdorff.net">loet@leydesdorff.net</a>" <<a href="mailto:loet@leydesdorff.net">loet@leydesdorff.net</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Monday 22 February 2016 at 20:36<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>'Bruno Marchal' <<a href="mailto:marchal@ulb.ac.be">marchal@ulb.ac.be</a>>, 'fis Science' <<a href="mailto:fis@listas.unizar.es">fis@listas.unizar.es</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: [Fis] Fis Digest, Vol 23, Issue 24<br>
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<p style="margin-left:.5in">All worldviews begin in a miracle. No exceptions.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">I agree. Nevertheless, we should, and can, minimize the miracle. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 84, 106);">Why would one need a worldview? The whole assumption of an order as a Given (in a Revelation) is religious. Order is always constructed (by us) and can/needs to be
explained. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 84, 106);">No “harmonia praestabilita”, but ex post. No endpoint omega. No cosmology, but chaology.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 84, 106);">With due respect for those of you who wish to hold on to religion or nature as a given; however, vaguely defined.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 84, 106);">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 84, 106);">Loet<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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