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pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. Worlds without end : the many lives of the multiverse . . . in which are discussed pre-, early-, and postmodern multiple-worlds cosmologies : the sundry arguments for and against them : the striking peculiarities of their adherents and detractors : the shifting boundaries of science, philosophy, and religion : and the stubbornly persistent question of whether creation has been “designed” / Mary-Jane Rubenstein. in which are discussed pre-, early-, and postmodern multipleworlds cosmologies the sundry arguments for and against them the striking peculiarities of their adherents and detractors the shifting boundaries of science, philosophy, and religion and the stubbornly persistent question of whether creation has been “designed” Mary-Jane Rubenstein Columbia University Press New York Columbia University Press Publishers Since 1893 New York Chichester, West Sussex Copyright © 2014 Columbia University Press All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rubenstein, Mary-Jane.

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