What life origin theory did Fred Hoyle promote?
Panspermia
Abiogenesis
Catastrophism
Evolution
Answer
Fred Hoyle was a cosmologist who proposed the steady state model of the universe. He also promoted the panspermia theory of life's origin, which suggests that life on Earth was brought here from outer space. Hoyle believed that the chances of life arising by chance on Earth were so small that it must have come from somewhere else.
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