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Classical Philosophy and Modern Belief

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The Importance of Random Chance in the Creation of the Universe

Starting in the 1960s, physicists and philosophers began noting that the characteristics of the subatomic particles seem to have been fine-tuned to an astonishingly high degree. And so these numbers that describe the universe at the atomic level could have been different, but they're just right for a universe full of evolution and intelligent life. But by amazing coincidence, we're talking like one chance in billions. Now here's where the multiverse comes in. A group of scientists said, yes, if you look at the universe, it does look designed. It's too big of a coincidence. So what if we suppose that our universe is just one universe out of an infinity of universes, each with

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