John Leslie’s Universes (Routledge, £10.99, ISBN 0 415 13955 4) argues
that there is strong evidence of the “fine-tuning” of the cosmos. In other
words, the conditions for the evolution of life are exquisitely ordered. He
suggests that the only explanation is that there is a designer at work, called
God, or an abstract creative force. The reader will require stamina.
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