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==Origin of life==

==Origin of life==

Hoyle, a life-long atheist, was positively anti-theistic;<ref>see "Conflict in the Cosmos: Fred Hoyle's Life in Science (Simon Mitton, Joseph Henry Press, 2005) and "How is Where the Wind Blows: Chapters from a Cosmologist;s Life" (Fred Hoyle, University Science, 1994)</ref> instead of accepting a Divine hand in things, he proposed a ''deus ex machina'' alien intervention<ref>see "Evolution from Space: a Theory of Cosmic Creationism (Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe, Simon and Schuster, 1984)</ref> more in keeping with one of his many science fiction novels <ref>http://www.hoyle.org.uk/FH/Fiction.html</ref> than with faith and logic.

Hoyle, a lifelong atheist, was positively anti-theistic;<ref>see "Conflict in the Cosmos: Fred Hoyle's Life in Science (Simon Mitton, Joseph Henry Press, 2005) and "How is Where the Wind Blows: Chapters from a Cosmologist;s Life" (Fred Hoyle, University Science, 1994)</ref> instead of accepting a Divine hand in things, he proposed a ''deus ex machina'' alien intervention<ref>see "Evolution from Space: a Theory of Cosmic Creationism (Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe, Simon and Schuster, 1984)</ref> more in keeping with one of his many science fiction novels <ref>http://www.hoyle.org.uk/FH/Fiction.html</ref> than with faith and logic.

{{quotebox|"The likelihood (probability) of the [[spontaneous generation|spontaneous formation]] of life from inanimate matter is one to number with 40,000 noughts after it...  It is big enough to bury Darwin and the whole [[theory of evolution]].  There was no [[primeval soup]], neither on this planet nor on any other, and if the beginnings of life were not random, they must therefore have been the product of purposeful intelligence."  Sir Fredrick Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe, Evolution from Space  (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984), p. 148.<ref>http://www.discoveryevent.com/quotes1.htm</ref>}}

{{quotebox|"The likelihood (probability) of the [[spontaneous generation|spontaneous formation]] of life from inanimate matter is one to number with 40,000 noughts after it...  It is big enough to bury Darwin and the whole [[theory of evolution]].  There was no [[primeval soup]], neither on this planet nor on any other, and if the beginnings of life were not random, they must therefore have been the product of purposeful intelligence."  Sir Fredrick Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe, Evolution from Space  (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984), p. 148.<ref>http://www.discoveryevent.com/quotes1.htm</ref>}}