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Evolution from Space: A Theory of Cosmic Creationism Paperback – January 12, 1984

by Sir Fred Hoyle (Author), Chandra Wickramasinghe (Author)

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From Simon & Schuster, Evolution from Space is Sir Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe's theory of cosmic creationism in this daring and fascinating sequel to Lifecloud and Diseases from Space.

Evolution from Space presents the revolutionary theory that mathematics can establish the probable existence of God and suggests that life began in space under the direction of a great intelligence.

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Sir Fred Hoyle FRS was an astronomer who formulated the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis. He also held controversial stances on other scientific matters—in particular his rejection of the "Big Bang" theory, a term coined by him on BBC radio, and his promotion of panspermia as the origin of life on Earth.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition (January 12, 1984)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0671492632
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0671492632
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.48 x 9.25 inches

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Francis A. Andrew

Evolution from Space. A review by Francis A. Andrew, Zarqa, JORDAN.

Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2011

Evolution From Space by Sir Fred Hoyle and N. Chandra Wickramasinghe is a ground-breaking work which surely serves to cast doubt on Darwinian evolution and cause biologists to look afresh at life's origins. Every chapter is full of surprises. Why do we find globin genes in legumes? Why are bacteria able to survive in conditions which are not found on Earth? And why do flies see at wavelengths of 2,537 Angstrom - a wavelength which does not exist naturally on Earth? The answer to this question is one of the biggest surprises in the book - insects come from outer space. The authors argue that there is simply no selective pressure for insects and microorganisms to evolve these adaptive properties on Earth, so an extraterrestrial environment for the selective pressure factors must logically be considered.
Hoyle and Wickramasinghe demonstrate the mathematical impossibility of amino acids in a single gene rearranging themselves to become functional within a Darwinain evolutionary timescale.
Their way of explaining the absence of intermediate species in the fossil record ( an awkward fact for Darwinian evolution which insists on a gradual process involving intermediate species ) is also quite novel. Evolution per saltum ( by a jump ) is caused by fresh inputs of cosmic genes which rain down on the Earth and which are acquired by species best able to use them.
Unlike so many scientists, Hoyle and Wickramasinghe do not dodge the fundamental question of the Universe ( and life in particular ) being controlled by some form of Intelligence - or God. In the final chapter, the authors postulate a theory which involves a sequence of Intelligences: one which "...designed the biochemicals and gave rise to the origin of carbonaceous life". Another higher level of Intelligence was responsible for controlling "...the coupling constants of physics." And how many of these Intelligences are there? "But like a convergent mathematical sequence of functions it has an idealised limit.....it is this idealised limit that is God...." And the authors' final conclusion is that God is the Universe.

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Christopher R. Travers

Interesting and historically important work

Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2010

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Fred Hoyle's reputation in science is fairly mixed. On one hand, he solved an important astrophysics problem. Prior to his work, physicists couldn't explain the larger amounts of carbon and elements heavier than carbon (nitrogen, oxygen, etc) in the universe. Instead it seemed that fusion should not be possible beyond the formation of helium. Hoyle proposed a mechanism where three Helium nuclii fuse to form a carbon nucleus. This solved the problem and he is generally credited with that.

On the other hand, you have his opposition to big bang theory and, well, this book, which really ought to be seen as the founding of contemporary intelligent design theory. There's much more to this book than that, however, and it's worth reading in it's own right.

Hoyle makes three basic hypotheses:

1) Life came to earth from space
2) Genes from space carried in on viruses are constantly impacting the genetics of life on earth.
3) Life is so improbable that it must have been intelligently designed.

I think the third point is the least persuasive. At best one can argue that intelligent design is a superior theory to the theory that all enzymes were created through random shuffling of amino acid blocks. However the random shuffle theory has never been particularly scientifically accepted. Furthermore the Darwinist theory he was arguing against isn't even close to current evolutionary theory. Consequently I think one has to discount this theory, or at least suggest it's an argument against a straw man.

The evolutionary theory he argues against may have been current in the 1970's but it's not current today. He approaches evolution as a linear, progressive process instead of a complex, nonlinear, adaptive process. Claims that no evolutionary potential is left in mice is evidence of an idea that evolutionary potential is something inherent in the genome. Many of his complaints, from rapid speciation to a lack of transitional fossiles are based on this fundamental poor assumption. However, his survey of older pre-Darwin ideas is interesting in part because it allows for those who are interested in the history of ideas to see how in some areas, current thought has returned to ideas which were supposedly disproven by Darwin's hypothesis (for example, the idea that evolution speeds up when animals are under stress is one such pre-Darwinian idea that the field has returned to). I suppose it proves Heisenburg ( Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science ) right. Scientific theory is not implied by data but a combination of assumption and data.

At the same time, I think that his theories about genetic material coming from space may have some merit. Something like 8% of the human genome appears to be of viral origin, and more evidence is slowly surfacing interplanetary space is full of organic chemicals. Additionally it's become more and more clear that microbes can survive in outer space. It may not be as large of a change as he suggests but it may be a change nonetheless.

The main virtue of this work though is that despite the fact that the author was a reputable scientist, his critique essentially transformed the creationism capm in the culture wars into the intelligent design camp. It's interesting for this reason beyond any others.

This is not a book to be read uncritically. There's a lot wrong with it, but it's also an interesting and thought provoking read nonetheless, and hence I'd certainly recommend it.

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John C. Landon

A classic Darwin critique

Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2003

Noone realizes it but this work is a classic on the issue of Darwinism. It has been 'refuted' so many times and still survives one must wonder if it doesn't scare Darwinists. One doesn't have to accept their perspective to see that the statistical difficulties of the original Darwinian theory were fatal, and should have been seen all along.
Attempts to deal with statistics in the Darwinian field have left a generation confused on the subject. The paradigm, to survive, has to keep the troops muddled.

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kindle version is useless

Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2018

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Rahasya-Lotus Guide

Some really good early thinking here but you will need to be ...

Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2015

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Some really good early thinking here but you will need to be interested in this subject and have some basic understanding about it. It will stretch your mind and your thinking as far as what is possible...where did we come from? I approached this subject in the third part of my book To Believe Or Not To Believe: The Social and Neurological Consequences of Belief Systems

Rahasya Poe, Lotus Guide

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POORLY REPRODUCED Kindle edition of "Evolution from Space" by Fred Hoyle

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BUYER BEWARE ... I think Amazon needs to check the Kindle version of "Evolution from Space [Kindle Edition]
By: Sir Fred Hoyle, It is absolutely appallingly digitally rendered to be nearly unreadable. Symbols are displayed wrong, the text is confusingly reproduced and the paragraphing and punctuation distorted. It does not read well at all. I feel embarrassed to have recommended it to my wife. this book needs to be correctly re-rendered in digital format.

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