Occupation: Astronomer Birth: June 24, 1915 Death: August 20, 2001
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 rand….
A commonsense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that t….
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 t….
The chance that higher life forms might have emerged through evolutionary processes is comparable with the chance that a tornado sweeping through a j….
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 fo….
Science today is locked into paradigms. Every avenue is blocked by beliefs that are wrong, and if you try to get anything published by a journal toda….
I have always thought it curious that, while most scientists claim to eschew religion, it actually dominates their thoughts more than it does the cle….
A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics..
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 D….
Some super-calculating intellect must have designed the properties of the carbon atom, otherwise the chance of my finding such an atom through the bl….
It is ironic that the scientific facts throw Darwin out, but leave William Paley, a figure of fun to the scientific world for more than a century, st….
On scientific grounds this big bang assumption is much less the palatable of the two. For it is an irrational process that cannot be described in sci….
It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example..
In short there is not a shred of objective evidence to support the hypothesis that life began in an organic soup here on the Earth..
There is a coherent plan to the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for..
We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates our birth a….
A junkyard contains all the bits and pieces of a Boeing 747, dismembered and in disarray. A whirlwind happens to blow through the yard. What is the c….
Perhaps the most majestic feature of our whole existence is that while our intelligences are powerful enough to penetrate deeply into the evolution o….
It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup of any kind.... Furthermore, no geological evidence indicates ….
Words are like harpoons. Once they go in, they are very hard to pull out..
The big bang theory requires a recent origin of the Universe that openly invites the concept of creation..