Fred Hoyle's IFS Lecture December 1982

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1. I have only just come across this. I already knew that Hoyle was a great genius - THIS PROVES BEYONG DOUBT THAT HE IS THE GREATEST PHYSICISt THAT HAS EVER LIVED - AND THAT INCLUDES EINSTEIN
2. Hoyle ignores variation in the disease host population.  The evolution of the hosts in response to the disease mean that they will eventually become resistant.  
   
   That is, just as bacteria become resistant to penicillin so to would humans become resistant to any new disease.  
   
   https://biogeekery.wordpress.com/2013/02/25/human-resistance-to-infectious-diseases/
3. I am directly related to him
4. "Echoing the criticism made of his father’s habilis skulls, he added that Lucy’s skull was so incomplete that most of it was ‘imagination made of plaster of Paris’, thus making it impossible to draw any firm conclusion about what species she belonged to." -Sir Fred Hoyle, “Hoyle on Evolution”, Nature, vol. 294, 12 Nov. 1981, p. 105
5. Of course, it is for us, who evolved into a certain degree of observation, because of how we grew into this state, normal to mess up cause and effect like it has a motive. 1 second lasts '1 second', but if the Earth had been twice as big, a second would have lasted twice as long, but still 1 second, the same with any other degree of measurement. It is like asking the question 'What do you like better : blue or...?', and the space is left open with infinite options. Some people go 'I am glad I was born in the current age, I wouldn't have wanted to live in Medieval times. But without any reference, 'other than current' is totally irrelevant.
6. Moi, aussi, j'ai eu la visite de quelqu'un venu du passé. En effet, une personne inconnue m'a volontairement ensevelie sous un monceau de vers de terre et, ne pouvant m'en libérer toute seule, Jeanne d'Arc, en parfaite secouriste est venue me dégager.
7. A genius in his field  but not practical enough to use a handsign or something of the sort to the guy changing slides.
8. Panspermia theory is mentioned in one of David Humes books.
9. The theory Sir Fred Hoyle is propounding here is better explained in his book "The Intelligent Universe". He is probably the most brilliant man to have ever walked on earth. Great lecture. Very, very insightful.
10. I read Hoyle's 1982 book "Evolution from Space" where this theory is advanced in book form. Most scientists laugh at the theory then. Today many scientists hold that Hoyle's theory is now somewhat vindicated. That the building blocks of life did indeed arrive to the earth from outerspace via Comets and space rocks.