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no primeval soup ... life must therefore have been the product of purposeful intelligence
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By 1946 Hoyle had formulated the original and still generally accepted idea that the elements are generated in evolving stars and injected into the interstellar medium by [[supernova]] explosions. In 1957 he collaborated with William Alfred Fowler, Margaret Burbidge and Geoffrey Burbidge on an epoch-making paper on the nucleosynthesis of elements in stars.<ref>http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0275%2FHoyle</ref>
 
By 1946 Hoyle had formulated the original and still generally accepted idea that the elements are generated in evolving stars and injected into the interstellar medium by [[supernova]] explosions. In 1957 he collaborated with William Alfred Fowler, Margaret Burbidge and Geoffrey Burbidge on an epoch-making paper on the nucleosynthesis of elements in stars.<ref>http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0275%2FHoyle</ref>
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{{quotebox|"The likelihood (probability) of the 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. [http://www.discoveryevent.com/quotes1.htm]}}
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{{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. [http://www.discoveryevent.com/quotes1.htm]}}
    
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