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William H. Jefferys

Index William H. Jefferys

William H. "Bill" Jefferys (born 1940) is an American astronomer. [1]

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Anthropic principle

The anthropic principle is a philosophical consideration that observations of the universe must be compatible with the conscious and sapient life that observes it.

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Exotic probability

Exotic probability is a branch of probability theory that deals with probabilities which are outside the normal range of.

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Fine-tuned Universe

The fine-tuned Universe is the proposition that the conditions that allow life in the Universe can occur only when certain universal dimensionless physical constants lie within a very narrow range of values, so that if any of several fundamental constants were only slightly different, the Universe would be unlikely to be conducive to the establishment and development of matter, astronomical structures, elemental diversity, or life as it is understood.

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Guillermo Gonzalez (astronomer)

Guillermo Gonzalez (born 1963 in Havana, Cuba) is an astrophysicist, proponent of the pseudoscientific principle of intelligent design, and an assistant professor at Ball State University, a public research university, in Muncie, Indiana.

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Harlan James Smith

Harlan James Smith (August 25, 1924 – October 17, 1991) was an American astronomer.

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Harold Jeffreys

Sir Harold Jeffreys, FRS (22 April 1891 – 18 March 1989) was a British mathematician, statistician, geophysicist, and astronomer.

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List of mathematicians (J)

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List of statisticians

This list of statisticians lists people who have made notable contributions to the theories or application of statistics, or to the related fields of probability or machine learning.

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List of University of Texas at Austin faculty

This list of University of Texas at Austin faculty includes current and former instructors and administrators of the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), a major research university located in Austin, Texas that is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System.

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Occam's razor

Occam's razor (also Ockham's razor or Ocham's razor; Latin: lex parsimoniae "law of parsimony") is the problem-solving principle that, the simplest explanation tends to be the right one.

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Rich Rosen

Rich Rosen (born May 13, 1956) is a software developer and an author on the subject of web development, who gained notoriety as an early high-volume contributor to Usenet newsgroups.

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The Privileged Planet

The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos is Designed for Discovery is a 2004 book by Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay Richards, in which the authors claim scientific evidence for intelligent design.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Jefferys

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