"Fred Hoyle is a distinguished astronomer, as you pointed out. When he speaks about biological phenomena, I would not say that he speaks ex cathedra. As a matter of fact, one of the statements that Fred Hoyle made with Chandra Wickramasinghe is that actually insects are smarter than we think they are, but they're just not letting us know." Eugene Scott in "Resolved: That evolutionists should acknowledge creation" _Firing Line_, 4 December 1997, p. 42.