Sort-of "Creationist" Fred Hoyle on This Day in History

This Day In History: English astronomer Fred Hoyle died on this day in 2001. Hoyle was an interesting enigma in science. He rejected the Big Bang Theory, though he would not consider himself a Christian nor a creationist. In his book, "The Intelligent Universe" he wrote: “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 chance that after its passage a fully assembled 747, ready to fly, will be found standing there? So small as to be negligible, even if a tornado were to blow through enough junkyards to fill the whole Universe.” (Similar arguments in this vein are the "Watchmaker analogy" or "Irreducible complexity")

He also added, "as biochemists discover more and more about the awesome complexity of life, it is apparent that its chances of originating by accident are so minute that they can be completely ruled out. Life cannot have arisen by chance."

With all this, and his rejection of Darwinism, an associate of Hoyle (Chandra Wickramasinghe) wrote in 2003: "In the highly polarized polemic between Darwinism and creationism, our position is unique. Although we do not align ourselves with either side, both sides treat us as opponents. Thus we are outsiders with an unusual perspective—and our suggestion for a way out of the crisis has not yet been considered."

See: 300 Books on Darwinism, Eugenics, Creation & Evolution on DVDrom
https://thebookshelf2015.blogspot.com/2015/09/300-books-on-darwinism-eugenics.html

Read (or download) Fred Hoyle's "Frontiers Of Astronomy"