Quote by Fred Hoyle on the Carbon Atom and Intelligent Design

„Some super-calculating intellect must have designed the properties of the carbon atom, otherwise the chance of my finding such an atom through the blind forces of nature would be utterly minuscule.“

Fred HoyleFred Hoyle emphasizes the low probability of the carbon atom arising without intelligent design.
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Sir Fred Hoyle was a British astronomer and mathematician who also wrote science fiction.

This quote reflects Fred Hoyle's view on the implied necessity of intelligent design in nature, particularly regarding the carbon atom.


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Fred Hoyle quote about the properties of the carbon atom and intelligent design

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.

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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." Fred Hoyle
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