If a god creates a world in which certain propositions are true, then by that very act he also creates a world in which all the propositions that follow from them come true. And similarly he could not create a world in which the proposition 'p' was true without creating all its objects.

This book examines these questions not in the abstract but shows their historic roots and the answers emerging from the scientific and political controversies ...

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