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It has long been that the human race considered themselves to be the center of the universe, and everything is meant to be at their disposal to do with whatever they desire. Is that no longer the case? Don’t be so sure. How often do you think about the cause and effect of things? For a long time, humans felt no need to consider such questions, since God was the cause of everything and the effects were to dealt with not to be understood.
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Nowlan, R.A. (2017). Everything has Causes. In: Masters of Mathematics. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-893-8_27
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