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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Roger Tennant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sea Changes | 8/24/1981 | See Source »

...have been the work of "some infant deity who afterwards abandoned it, ashamed of his lame performance." Turned inside out, the proof is really a question: Could this intricate universe have evolved by pure trial and error? The last major philosopher to promote the argument, Britain's F.R. Tennant, wrote in 1934: "Presumably the world is comparable with a single throw of the dice. And common sense is not foolish in suspecting the dice to have been loaded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Modernizing the Case for God | 4/7/1980 | See Source »

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