God, the Multiverse, and Everything: Modern Cosmology and the Argument from Design. By Rodney D. Holder. Pp. viii + 211. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004. isbn 0 7546 5116 9. £45
Most philosophers of religion and theologians are probably by now familiar, at least in outline, with the revived teleological argument which sees evidence of a creator in the ‘fine tuning’ of the universe to produce life. The argument in its strongest form asserts that only a universe very like our...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2006
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2006, Volume: 57, Issue: 1, Pages: 405-407 |
| Review of: | God, the multiverse, and everything (Aldershot [u.a.] : Ashgate, 2004) (Gould, Graham)
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| Summary: | Most philosophers of religion and theologians are probably by now familiar, at least in outline, with the revived teleological argument which sees evidence of a creator in the ‘fine tuning’ of the universe to produce life. The argument in its strongest form asserts that only a universe very like ours—i.e. immensely large and immensely old compared with the dimensions of the earth and the span of human existence—could produce life at all in accordance with the laws of physics and the initial conditions on which these laws operate. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flj031 |