After considering what he thought of as a very remote probability of evolution he
concluded:
“ If one proceeds directly and straightforwardly in this matter, without being
deflected by a fear of incurring the wrath of scientific opinion, one arrives at
the conclusion that biomaterials with their amazing measure or order must be
the outcome of intelligent design. No other possibility I have been able to
think of...[9] ”
Hoyle calculated that the chance of obtaining the required set of enzymes for even the
simplest living cell was one in 10^40000. Since the number of atoms in the known universe
is infinitesimally tiny by comparison (10^80), he argued that even a whole universe full of
primordial soup would grant little chance to evolutionary processes. He claimed:
The notion that not only the biopolymer 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.
