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“The notion that not only the biopolymer 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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