Dear Gordana, "Law" is a slippery concept. Most physicists make the theological assumption that the laws of physics pre-existed the Big Bang. I rather doubt that. I see the laws as having evolved (precipitated?) out of inchoate configurations of processes. <https://www.ctr4process.org/whitehead2015/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/PhilPrax.pdf>
Under the prevailing metaphysics, miracles are impossible. For that matter, so is real change! If we switch metaphysical foundations, however, the boundary between law and miracle grows permeable. <http://people.clas.ufl.edu/ulan/publications/philosophy/3rdwindow/> Best wishes, Bob > To me the miracle is not so much order, as it is relation, and thus as > Loet says "order is always constructed (by us)"- > but the miracle is the very existence of anything (us, the rest of the > universe). > Why there is something rather than nothing (that would be much simpler)? > To me miracle is how it all started. From vacuum fluctuations? But where > the vacuum comes from? > But then, why should we call it a miracle? > Perhaps the better name is just natural law, finally equally inexplicable > and given, > but sounds more general and less mystic. > > Best, > Gordana > > > From: Fis > <fis-boun...@listas.unizar.es<mailto:fis-boun...@listas.unizar.es>> on > behalf of Loet Leydesdorff > <l...@leydesdorff.net<mailto:l...@leydesdorff.net>> > Organization: University of Amsterdam > Reply-To: "l...@leydesdorff.net<mailto:l...@leydesdorff.net>" > <l...@leydesdorff.net<mailto:l...@leydesdorff.net>> > Date: Monday 22 February 2016 at 20:36 > To: 'Bruno Marchal' <marc...@ulb.ac.be<mailto:marc...@ulb.ac.be>>, 'fis > Science' <fis@listas.unizar.es<mailto:fis@listas.unizar.es>> > Subject: Re: [Fis] Fis Digest, Vol 23, Issue 24 > > > All worldviews begin in a miracle. No exceptions. > > I agree. Nevertheless, we should, and can, minimize the miracle. > > 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. > > No "harmonia praestabilita", but ex post. No endpoint omega. No cosmology, > but chaology. > > With due respect for those of you who wish to hold on to religion or > nature as a given; however, vaguely defined. > > Best, > Loet > > _______________________________________________ > Fis mailing list > Fis@listas.unizar.es > http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis > _______________________________________________ Fis mailing list Fis@listas.unizar.es http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis
