Tag: Hoyle’s Fallacy

Hoyle’s Junkyard and the Origin of Life

Hoyle’s Junkyard and the Origin of Life

| July 22, 2012

A prominent Christian website promoting Biblical Creationism has asked its followers to challenge teachers, professors and anyone else with 15 Questions about the Theory of Evolution.   Their campaign is called Question Evolution. Although the questions do not actually challenge the Theory of Evolution, they are questions that certainly deserve carefully thought out answers.   We hope to provide a […]

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Fred Hoyle’s Junkyard Fallacy

Fred Hoyle’s Junkyard Fallacy

| July 22, 2012

The eminent astronomer and cosmologist Sir Fred Hoyle was a proponent of a theory called Panspermia, where his belief was that life on earth was deliberately seeded by organic molecules by an alien intelligence.    It is an interesting theory, and since we have already seen the absorption spectra of organic molecules in outer space, […]

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