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The most significant thing about Fred Hoyle and the Big Bang is that, at the time the theory was propounded, he was very sceptical. I understand that he coined the term in a faintly derogatory way, as he believed at the time in the "Steady State Theory" - the idea that the universe was infinite in age.

Hoyle's objections to the Big Bang theory are philosophical: naturalism finds it much easier to accommodate an infinitely old universe than a universe that had its origin at a point in space-time, as this suggests a "prior" or "external" cause. It is one of the areas where pure philosophical naturalism still blushes and clears its throat nervously.

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