This brings me to the second confusion engendered by my choice of words. There are many seeming “miracles” of nature that appear so daunting that many have given up trying to find an explanation of how we came to be and, instead, blame it all on God. But the question I really care about, and the one that science can actually address, is the question of how all the “stuff” in the universe could have come from no “stuff,” and how, if you wish, formlessness led to form. That is what seems so astounding and nonintuitive. It seems to violate everything we know about the world—in particular the fact
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