Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing
Volume 6, Issue 2 , Pages 57-63 , March 2010

The Possibility of the Impossible: Miracles, Wonder, and Thomas Jefferson's Razor

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PII: S1550-8307(09)00408-X

doi: 10.1016/j.explore.2009.12.003

Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing
Volume 6, Issue 2 , Pages 57-63 , March 2010