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Evolution from space

by Fred Hoyle, Chandra Wickramasinghe

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Accession 17142 ISBN 0586084215 Publisher Granada (in Paladin Books)
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In this startling book, Hoyle and Wickramasinghe argue that the evolutionary course of life on Earth has always been subject to cosmic influences. Its complexity attests to a guiding intelligence; in the final analysis, God is a mathematical probability. -- Publisher's description.

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