Hoyle was an astrophysicist. He gave a few lectures in the 1970s at Rice on his nucleosynthesis research, thermonuclear and nova events, and solar neutrinos, with the two that I know of being in 1973 and 1975. As far as I know, he never lectured at Rice on evolutionary biology, and never presented any "fossil records" of any kind. I can't even imagine such an event.
Well, he did. I was there, even if you weren’t. It was in the 1980s, not the 1970s. He had just written “Diseases from Space,” and “Evolution from Space.”
You don’t have to believe it if you don’t want to. I really don’t give a rat’s hind end what you believe. That’s your choice.
But it all happened, exactly as I described.