Fred Hoyle (1915–2001) British astronomer
Arguing that living organisms could not have arisen by chance alone.
The Intelligent Universe (1983), p. 19
“The chance that higher life forms might have emerged in this way is comparable with the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junk-yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the materials therein.”
Hoyle on evolution, Nature, Vol. 294, No. 5837 (November 12, 1981), p. 105
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