Theological Misinterpretations of Current Physical Cosmology

Foundations of Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 523-543

  Grünbaum, Adolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/BF02071219     Document Type: Article

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