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• Earlier theories ... were based on the hypothesis that all the matter in the universe was created in one big bang at…
• One [idea] was that the Universe started its life a finite time ago in a single huge explosion, and that the present…
• The universe is a put-up job.
• It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup of any kind.... Furthermore, no geological evidence…
• Life cannot have had a random beginning. ... The trouble is that there are about two thousand enzymes, and the chance of…
• The chance that higher life forms might have emerged through evolutionary processes is comparable with the chance that a tornado sweeping through…
• It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example.
• Once we see, however, that the probability of life originating at random is so utterly minuscule as to make it absurd, it…
• The likelihood of the formation of life from inanimate matter is 1 to a number with 40,000 noughts after it (1040,000).... It…
• Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, we shall, in an emotional sense, acquire an additional dimension...
• There is a coherent plan to the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
• I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible.

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