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Imagine 1050 Blind Persons Each With A Scrambled Rubik's Cube, And Try To Conceive Of The Chance Of Them All Simultaneously Arriving At The Solved Form. You Then Have A Chance Of Arriving By Random Shuffling, Of Just One Of The Many Biopolymers On Which Life Depends. The Notion That Not Only The Biopolymers 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.
-Fred Hoyle
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Imagine 1050 Blind Persons Each With A

Fred Hoyle
Imagine 1050 Blind Persons Each With A Scrambled Rubik's Cube, And Try To Conceive Of The Chance Of Them All Simultaneously Arriving At The Solved Form. You Then Have A Chance Of Arriving By Random Shuffling, Of Just One Of The Many Biopolymers On Which Life Depends. The Notion That Not Only The Biopolymers 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.
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