Junkyard theory of evolution

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Before we can set about making it a better world, we should be able to understand the true nature of this world.

When I was enjoying my flight from London to Dubai (see 5th March 2010 blog), I could not help thinking of Fred Hoyle's discussion, in his book, "The Intelligent Universe" about how that moment came to be possible.

He wonders: Imagine all the compononents that go in to making a modern long range aircraft scattered amongst other waste in a huge metal junkyard. A hurricane happens to blow fiercely through that junkyard, and lo and behold, you have a shining new Boeing 747 ready to take to the skies.

Fred Hoyle says that that is a mathematical improbability. There has to be an intelligence
which brings about the existence of that Boeing 747.
Taking the idea further, he says the formation of a living molecule, formation of life, and its evolution, too is so complex that the idea of Darwinan evolution by "random mutations", that is, a total accidental getting together of varoius components, is equally improbable. He uses this example to support his assertion that there has to be an intelligence behind the organisation of atoms and molecules into a structure we call life, and its subsequent evolution into the myriad forms we see today.
According to him, there is an Intelligence, something that can think and create, much as man can, at the very basis of all Cosmos.

If we accept his line of reasoning, even if only as a thoretical possibility, it allows us to create our own world as we wish it to be, becuase we too are endowed with the same intelligence to think and to create.

Wishing you every happiness, Shree-1