Chapter Nine: The Mystery Of The Possibility Of Life
CHAPTER NINE: THE MYSTERY OF THE POSSIBILITY OF LIFE
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2. Fred Hoyle, “The Universe: Past and Present Reflections,” Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics 20 (1982): 1–35, with quote from 16.
3. Bernard J. Carr and Martin J. Rees, “Fine-Tuning in Living Systems,” International Journal of Astrobiology 3 (2003): 79–86.
4. See esp. R. J. P. Williams and J. J. R. Fraústo da Silva, The Chemistry of Evolution: The Development of Our Ecosystem (Boston: Elsevier, 2006); idem, The Natural Selection of the Chemical Elements: The Environment and Life’s Chemistry (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996).
5. Robin Collins, “The Multiverse Hypothesis: A Theistic Perspective,” in Universe or Multiverse? ed. Bernard Carr (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), 459–80.