Boris Norris
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It was not known if Hoyle actually said that but it was attributed to him by Chandra Wickramasinghe.You are probably right about the error in the source I quoted. Dawkins does not seem alert enough to realize that the mathematical probability of life beginning on earth by sheer undesigned, unplanned, uncaused accident is all but nil. I did find this, however:
What he said was this.
The probability of life originating on earth is no greater than the chance of a hurricane sweeping through a scrapyard, would have the luck to assemble a Boeing 747.
From that it's fair to assume he possibly believed it didn't originate on earth.
Natural selection is not a theory of chance. It is exactly the opposite.
The beginning of life on Earth was a deliberate process and no chance at all. First life responded to it's environment and chemical reactions etc. That is beyond me but it was not by chance.
Our ancestors can be traced by DNA and the common elements in the cosmos which we are made of. That is not chance.
In fact, 158000000 generations ago, we were fish, believe it not which you probably won't.