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Who Did It? Did God Do It? The very idea that the universe had a beginning was so troubling to Sir Fred Hoyle that when he was promoted to Lecturer in Mathematics at Cambridge in 1948, he published two papers on steady-state cosmology, in which he presented a serious alternative to the Big Bang theory. That led him to speculate about human life on Planet Earth. Eventually he proposed what is now called the Anthropic Principle. His theory is based more on philosophy than science, but modern quantum physics seems to follow a similar tendency. Its basic tenant is that the universe cannot exist without a consciousness to observe it. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"87568","attributes":{"alt":"Sir Fred Hoyle 1915 - 2001 (Free Use)","class":"media-image","height":"700","style":"width: 400px; height
