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According to recent developments in cosmology we seem bound to find a model universe like the observed universe, almost independently of how we suppose it started. Such ideas, if valid, provide fresh justification for the procedures of current cosmological theory.
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MCCREA, W. A Philosophy for Big-Bang Cosmology. Nature 228, 21–24 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/228021a0
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