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  1. “Large Number Coincidences and the Anthropic Principle in Cosmology,” inConfrontation of Cosmological Theories with Observational Data, ed. M.S. Longair (Dordrecht: Reidel, 1974), pp. 291–298. See also J.D. Barrow and F.J. Tipler,The Anthropic Cosmological Principle (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986).

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  2. See S.W. Hawking, “Quantum Cosmology,” inThree Hundred Years of Gravitation, eds. S.W. Hawking and W. Israel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987), 631–651.

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  3. The Miracle of Theism (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982). The quotations are from chapter thirteen which is devoted to a discussion of neoplatonism. See also J. Leslie, “Mackie on Neoplatonism's ‘Replacement for God’,”Religious Studies 22 (1986): 325–342.

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  4. They form the main subject-matter of myValue and Existence (Oxford: Blackwell, 1979), which further includes discussion of neoplatonist philosophy from antiquity to modern times. See also J. Leslie, “The World's Necessary Existence”,International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 11 (1980): 207–223.

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  5. This may be the most intriguing theme in A.C. Ewing'sValue and Reality (London: Allen and Unwin, 1973), see chapter 7 in particular.

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  6. Philosophical Problems of Space and Time (Dordrecht: Reidel, 1973, 2nd edition).

  7. Details are given in myUniverses (London and New York: Routledge, 1989), which also summarizes the evidence of fine tuning, and in the contributions of Linde, Wheeler, Tryon and others to my edited volumePhysical Cosmology and Philosophy (New York: Macmillan, 1990). G. Gale surveyed the field for pages 189–206 of the volume, under the title “Cosmological Fecundity: Theories of Multiple Universes”. The volume further includes essays on the fine tuning by B.J. Carr, R. Swinburne and others.

  8. Times Literary Supplement (3 July 1992): 3–5. Another non-technical comparison of neoplatonist, multiple-universe and other theories of creation fills chapter seven of J.J.C. Smart'sOur Place in the Universe (Oxford: Blackwell, 1989).

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Leslie, J. Creation stories, religious and atheistic. Int J Philos Relig 34, 65–77 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01317097

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