Fred Hoyle and a "super intellect"

[lesliedellow]

I think this forum could do with a new thread, so I will just post this quote from somebody who spent his life professing to be an atheist, but who seems to have ended up a deist.

Would you not say to yourself, “Some super-calculating intellect must have designed the properties of the carbon atom, otherwise the chance of my finding such an atom through the blind forces of nature would be utterly minuscule?" Of course you would. A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a super intellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature. The numbers one calculates from the facts seem to me so overwhelming as to put this conclusion almost beyond question. (Fred Hoyle)

 

[Strathos]

Okay....

What is the intended topic of discussion here?

 

[lesliedellow]

Okay....

What is the intended topic of discussion here?

Nothing in particular, but the existing threads were beginning to look a bit stale, and anything with overtones of "fine tuning" is a good way to wind up the atheists.

Or, more precisely, this had become the "Electric Universe" forum, and I thought it could do with a new thread.

 

[Strathos]

Well anything is better than more of that EU stuff.