Neville tells his audience that just the month before, astrophysicist Fred Hoyle — whom he names as one of the three foremost astrophysicists of the day — addressed a gathering of fellow astrophysicists and admitted he may have been wrong. Neville cites this against a student named Allen Stewart, who had dismissed Christianity as incompatible with a scientific mind, using Hoyle's own admission to undercut the claim that top scientists could never accept it.