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It Is No More Likely That Our World Has Evolved Out Of Chaos Than That A Hurricane, Blowing Through A Junk Yard, Should Create A Boeing.

Hoyle's Enduring Insights Into Stars, Nucleosynthesis, And The Large-scale Universe Rank Among The Greatest Achievements Of 20th-century Astrophysics. Moreover, His Theories Were Unfailingly Stimulating, Even When They Proved Transient.

A Commonsense Interpretation Of The Facts Suggests That A Superintellect Has Monkeyed With Physics, As Well As With Chemistry And Biology, And That There Are No Blind Forces Worth Speaking About In Nature. The Numbers One Calculates From The Facts Seem To Me So Overwhelming As To Put This Conclusion Almost Beyond Question.

Imagine 1050 Blind Persons Each With A Scrambled Rubik's Cube, And Try To Conceive Of The Chance Of Them All Simultaneously Arriving At The Solved Form. You Then Have A Chance Of Arriving By Random Shuffling, Of Just One Of The Many Biopolymers On Which Life Depends. The Notion That Not Only The Biopolymers But The Operating Program Of A Living Cell Could Be Arrived At By Chance In A Primordial Organic Soup Here On The Earth Is Evidently Nonsense Of A High Order.

When I Was Young, The Old Regarded Me As An Outrageous Young Fellow, And Now That I'm Old The Young Regard Me As An Outrageous Old Fellow.