September 12 - The Intelligent Universe!

 

Sir Frederick Hoyle

There is not a shred of objective evidence to support the hypothesis that life began in an organic soup here on earth. Indeed, Francis Crick, who shared a Nobel Prize for the discovery of the structure of DNA, is one biophysicist who finds this theory unconvincing. So why do biologists indulge in unsubstantiated fantasies in order to deny what is so patently obvious, that 200,000 amino acid chains, and hence life, did not appear by chance.

The answer lies in a theory developed over a century ago, which sought to explain the development of life as an inevitable product of the purely local natural process. Its author, Charles Darwin, hesitated to challenge the churches doctrine on the creation, and publically, at least, did not trace the implications of his ideas back in their bearing on the origin of life. However, he privately suggested that life itself may have been produced in "some warm little pond, "and to this day his followers have sought to explain the origins of terrestial life in terms of a process of chemical evolution from a primordial soup. But, as we have seen, this theory does not fit the facts.

The Intelligent Universe, page 23

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September 11 - Five Million Consecutive Times!

Dennis Edwards: Hoyle's strong mathematical arguments against the random development of life on earth did not bring him friendship in the devoutly Darwinian scientific community. Some believe it was Hoyle's vehement attacks against Darwinian evolution that caused him to be denied a Nobel Prize in Astronomy or Mathematics. Dave A. Schoch goes over some of the many difficulties in biological evolution in his book, The Assumptions Behind the Theory of Evolution. 
 

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September 9 - A Superintellect Has Monkeyed With Nature!

 

Dennis Edwards: As an astronomer and mathematician Hoyle calculated the possibility of life arising naturally through  a random process. Because of the discovery of the complex DNA molecule, he concluded that random events could not lead to the development of life on earth. Life was too complicated to be arrived at randomly. A super intelligence was in play and the fine-tuning of the nature could not be arrived at randomly. However, as a devote atheist, he developed the idea of panspermia or the idea that life was seeded on earth from a higher intelligent

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September 8 "The Product of Purposeful Intelligence"

 "The likelihood of the formation of life from inanimate matter is one to a number with 40,000 zeros after it. It is enough to bury Darwin and the whole General Theory of Evolution. There was no primordial soup, neither on this planet nor any other, and if the beginnings of life were not random, they must, therefore, have been the product of purposeful intelligence." Sir Frederick Hoyle (1915-2001 from his book Evolution from Space - 1984

Dennis Edwards: Hoyle was an atheist, but because of the mathmatical complications of life from the discovery of the DNA, he came to the conclusion that life did not arise of its own accord from a non directed Darwinian process. He developed the idea of panspermia, the idea that life was seeded from outer space by a higher intelligence. He was not accepted by the Darwinian evolutionary scientific community and denied a Nobel Prize because of his vehement attacks upon evolutionary theory. He is often quoted by creationist scientist because of his colorful arguments against random evolutionary theory.

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