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  2. Junkyard tornado - Wikipedia

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    The junkyard tornado argument has been taken out of its original context by theists to argue for intelligent design, and has since become a mainstay in the rejection of evolution by religious groups, even though Fred Hoyle declared himself an atheist, [1] and even though the junkyard tornado argument is considered a fallacy in its original ...

  3. Fred Hoyle - Wikipedia

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    Sir Fred Hoyle FRS (24 June 1915 – 20 August 2001) [1] was an English astronomer who formulated the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis and was one of the authors of the influential B 2 FH paper.

  4. Sir Fred Hoyle - Wikipedia

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  5. The World's Last Night and Other Essays - Wikipedia

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    Hoyle would have been part of that academically distinguished, but silly, minority. Lewis also mentioned Professor Hoyle (1915–2001) in his essay “The Seeing Eye” (1963). In “The Seeing Eye,” Lewis challenged the conclusion of the Russian cosmonauts, who concluded that there was no God, since they did not find Him in outer space.

  6. Ultimate Boeing 747 gambit - Wikipedia

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    Astrophysicist Fred Hoyle, who was an atheist, anti-theist and advocate of the panspermia theory of life, [n 1] is reported as having stated that the "probability of life originating on Earth is no greater than the chance that a hurricane, sweeping through a scrapyard, would have the luck to assemble a Boeing 747." [2]

  7. List of agnostics - Wikipedia

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    Fred Hoyle (1915–2001): English astronomer and mathematician. [358] Edwin Hubble (1889–1953): American astronomer who played a crucial role in establishing the field of extragalactic astronomy and is generally regarded as the leading observational cosmologist of the 20th century. Hubble generally is known for Hubble's law.

  8. Bampton Lectures (Columbia University) - Wikipedia

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    (17) 1964 – Fred Hoyle: Man in the Universe (18) 1965 – Robert Hanna Felix: Mental Illness: Progress and Prospects (19) 1966 – Alasdair C. MacIntyre: Fate of Theism/Atheism and Morals (20) 1966 – Paul Ricœur: On Interdiction and Accusation (21) 1968 – John Newenham Summerson: Victorian Architecture: Four Studies in Evaluation

  9. Messenger Lectures - Wikipedia

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    The Messenger Lectures are a series of talks given by scholars and public figures at Cornell University.They were funded in 1924 by a gift from Hiram Messenger of "a fund to provide a course of lectures on the Evolution of Civilization for the special purpose of raising the moral standard of our political, business, and social life", to be "delivered by the ablest non-resident lecturer or ...