Fred Hoyle: Intelligent Design Advocate

I would like to correct a common misconception about the astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle. It is widely known that Hoyle was a proponent of panspermia, the notion of intergalactic "seeding" of planet Earth advocated by a number of atheists such as Francis Crick and Professor Brig Klyce. But it is important to recognize that panspermia need not be tantamount to an end-run around theism to a negation of God.

Hoyle is often regarded as a panspermia atheist, and his book The Intelligent Universe (1983...