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“John Leslie’s absolute classic: Universes. This is one of the earliest books reflecting on the enigma of fine-tuning as the evidence was starting to develop. It was written in the ’80s…Universes is one of these ground-breaking books. Probably, in terms of the contemporary evidence of fine tuning, A Fortunate Universe is better, but Leslie is such an interesting, heterodox thinker. He doesn’t fit into the categories of traditional religious philosopher or secular atheist philosopher. Leslie takes the multiverse very seriously, so he’s not got a definite view. He has also developed a view which he calls axiarchism. This is the view that the universe exists because it is good. The way we typically think of this is that ‘there’s a good God who created the universe for a good purpose’; but he thinks instead that it’s just a brute fact that the universe exists because it is good.” Read more...
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