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“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.”

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Fred Hoyle
Fred Hoyle

Fred Hoyle was a British astronomer born on June 24, 1915, and died on August 20, 2001. He made significant contributions to the field of astrophysics, particularly in the areas of stellar evolution and cosmology. more

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