Quote by Fred Hoyle on the Probability of Life and Higher Intelligence

„Once we see, however, that the probability of life originating at random is so utterly minuscule as to make it absurd, it becomes sensible to think that the favorable properties of physics, on which life depends, are in every respect deliberate.... It is, therefore, almost inevitable that our own measure of intelligence must reflect higher intelligence -even to the limit of God.“

Fred HoyleFred Hoyle discusses the low probability of random life origin and the assumption of higher intelligence up to God.
PreviousNext

Sir Fred Hoyle was a British astronomer and mathematician who also wrote science fiction.

This statement by Fred Hoyle addresses the improbability of life originating by chance and links it to the idea of a higher intelligence.


Translation or original: 🇩🇪Click here

Quelle: Hier klicken

i

3.0 / 5

Quote image featuring Fred Hoyle on the probability of life and higher intelligence

Fred Hoyle (1915–2001) was a British astronomer known for his work in theoretical astrophysics, notably for his contributions to the theory of nucleosynthesis in stars. He was also a prolific science fiction writer and science communicator.

Fred Hoyle quote about superintelligence and natural lawsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
/
0 Comments
"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." Fred Hoyle
Read more
Inspirational quote image featuring Fred Hoyle on the origin of lifeCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
/
0 Comments
"The likelihood of the formation of life from inanimate matter is 1 to a number with 40,000 noughts after it (1040,000).... It is big enough to bury Darwin and the whole theory of evolution. There was no primeval soup, neither on this planet nor any other, and if the beginnings of life were not random, they must therefore have been the product of purposeful intelligence." Fred Hoyle
Read more
Quote by Dr. George Wald about the origin of life and evolutionCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
/
0 Comments
"When it comes to the origin of life, we have only two possibilities as to how life arose. One is spontaneous generation arising to evolution; the other is a supernatural creative act of God. There is no third possibility...Spontaneous generation was scientifically disproved one hundred years ago by Louis Pasteur, Lazzaro Spallanzani, Francesco Redi and others. That leads us scientifically to only one possible conclusion -- that life arose as a supernatural creative act of God...I will not accept that philosophically because I do not want to believe in God. Therefore, I choose to believe in that which I know is scientifically impossible, spontaneous generation arising to evolution." Dr. George Wald
Read more
Fred Hoyle quote about the origin of life and the improbability of random formationCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
/
0 Comments
"Life cannot have had a random beginning. ... The trouble is that there are about two thousand enzymes, and the chance of obtaining them all in a random trial is only one part in 10 to the 40,000 power, an outrageously small probability that could not be faced even if the whole universe consisted of organic soup." Fred Hoyle
Read more
Quote image featuring Fred Hoyle's perspective on evolution and probabilityCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
/
0 Comments
"The chance that higher life forms might have emerged through evolutionary processes is comparable with the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junk yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the material therein." Fred Hoyle
Read more
0 replies

Leave a Reply

Want to join the discussion?
Feel free to contribute!

Leave a Reply

Quote by Georges I. Gurdjieff on Mindfulness and SkillQuote image featuring Georges I. Gurdjieff on mindfulness and skillCopyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkJames M. Buchanan quote about anarchism and practical thinkingCopyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkQuote by James M. Buchanan on Anarchism and Pragmatism