J. B. S. Haldane/Addendum

Beetles

 * "When a reporter asked the famous biologist J.B.S. Haldane what his biological studies had taught him about God, Haldane replied, ´The creator, if he exists, must have an inordinate fondness for beetles,´ since there are more species of beetle than any other group of living creatures."


 * He [J.B.S. Haldane] must have been one of the first to point out the dangers of solar flares and to suggest that space voyages should be made during periods of minimum solar activity. And, with his tongue firmly in his cheek, he suggested that we should take seriously the hypothesis that life has a supernatural origin-from which he concluded that, as there are 400,000 species of beetles on this planet, but only 8,000 species ofhigher animal forms, ´the Creator, if he exists, has a special preference for beetles, and so we might be more likely to meet them than any other type of animal on a planet that would support life.'