Some Intelligent Design Quotes From An Atheist: Fred Hoyle
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Hoyle agreed with Darwin that life could not have originated by chance. But Hoyle, being an atheist, could not accept Darwin's opinion that God created the first living things.
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Charles Darwin, last sentence in On the Origin of Species, 1872
So Hoyle fell back on the atheist alternative, "intelligent design."
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Charles Darwin, last sentence in On the Origin of Species, 1872
So Hoyle fell back on the atheist alternative, "intelligent design."