"Published in his 1982/1984 books Evolution from Space (co-authored with Chandra Wickramasinghe), Hoyle calculated that the chance of obtaining the required set of enzymes for even the simplest living cell without panspermia was one in 1040,000. Since the number of atoms in the known universe is infinitesimally tiny by comparison (1080), he argued that Earth as life's place of origin could be ruled out. He claimed:
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.
Though Hoyle declared himself an atheist, this apparent suggestion of a guiding hand led him to the conclusion that "a superintellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and ... there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature." He would go on to compare the random emergence of even the simplest cell without panspermia to the likelihood that "a tornado sweeping through a junk-yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the materials therein" and to compare the chance of obtaining even a single functioning protein by chance combination of amino acids to a solar system full of blind men solving Rubik's Cubes simultaneously." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hoyle#Rejection_of_Earth-based_abiogenesis)
Több érdekesség is olvasható a wikis összefoglalóban.
Először is a tény, hogy Hoyle az összes (hibás) valószínűségi érvelését pusztán a földi abiogenezis ellen és a saját pánspermia-elképzelése mellett vetette be. Semmiféle teremtő istenről egy büdös szót nem említ!
Másodszor, hogy magát egyértelműen ateistának deklarálja. ("I am an atheist, but as far as blowing up the world in a nuclear war goes, I tell them not to worry." - Jane Gregory (2005). "Fighting for space". Fred Hoyle's Universe. Oxford University Press. p. 143.)
