Re: [asa] truth with love award

Merv,
You're thinking of Robert Jastrow in /God and the Astronomers/, page 116.
Fred Hoyle was a frustrated adherent to Steady State to the end. The
3-degree radiation that demonstrated the Big Bang did not sit at all well
with him, so he tried to get around it. The attempts were considered
unsuccessful, but he persisted.
Dave

On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 09:35:58 -0500 Mervin Bitikofer <mrb22667@kansas.net>
writes:
> Don, was Fred Hoyle the one who lamented something to the effect ----
>
> the "big bang" theory is like scientists ascending a last series of
>
> smaller peaks only to find theologians already sitting on the
> summit?
> I don't know much about Hoyle, but it sounds like Mitton's book
> would be
> a good place to learn.
>

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Received on Sat Jul 29 14:50:22 2006