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A revised design: Teleology and big questions in contemporary cosmology

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A Review of John D. Barrow and Frank J. Tipler, The Anthropic Cosmological Principle, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1986; pp. xx + 706.

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Gale, G. A revised design: Teleology and big questions in contemporary cosmology. Biol Philos 2, 475–491 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00127702

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