Tag: Guillermo Gonzalez

Night scene of the Milky Way and stars at Zion National Park

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
March 15, 2023

Categorized
Physics and Cosmology

Tagged
astrobiology, Atheism, correlation between habitability and discoverability, cosmic fine tuning, cosmic habitable age, deism, discoverability, earth-like planets, exoplanets, extra-terrestrial life, fine tuning, Galactic Habitable Zone, Guillermo Gonzalez, Intelligent Design, local fine tuning, Pantheism, perfect solar eclipses, rainbows, red dwarf stars, science-friendly universe, sun-like stars, The Privileged Planet, Theism}

A Privileged Place for Life and Discovery

_{Guillermo Gonzalez

March 15, 2023

Physics and Cosmology}

On this ID the Future host and geologist Casey Luskin continues his conversation with astrobiologist Guillermo Gonzalez about the many ways Earth’s place in the cosmos is fine tuned for life. In this second half of their conversation, Gonzalez zooms out to discuss the galactic habitable zone and the cosmic habitable age. Luskin says that the combination of exquisite cosmic and local fine tuning strongly suggests intelligent design, but he asks Gonzalez whether he thinks these telltale clues favor theism over deism? That is, does any of the evidence suggest a cosmic designer who is more than just the clockmaker God of the deists who, in the words of Stephen Dedalus, “remains within or behind or beyond or above his Read More ›

World environment and earth day concept with glass globe and eco friendly enviroment

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
March 13, 2023

Categorized
Physics and Cosmology

Tagged
active geology, Casey Luskin, circular orbits, Circumstellar Habitable Zone, earthlike planets, exoplanets, gas giant planets, Guillermo Gonzalez, habitable planets, local fine tuning, planetary obliquity, planetary rotation, plate tectonics, Privileged Planet, sun-like stars, superearths, transparent atmosphere, universal fine tuning}

The Problem of Earth Privilege: It’s Getting Worse

_{Guillermo Gonzalez

March 13, 2023

Physics and Cosmology}

On today’s ID the Future, astrobiologist Guillermo Gonzalez, co-author of The Privileged Planet, provides a rapid survey of some of the growing evidence that Earth is finely tuned in numerous ways to allow for life. He draws a helpful distinction between local fine tuning and universal fine tuning. And he tells us about the many extra-solar planets astronomers have discovered in recent years and how all that new data continues to undermine the misguided assumption (encouraged by the misnamed “Copernican Principle”) that Earth is just a humdrum planet. Far from it, Gonzalez argues. The conversation is occasioned by Gonzalez’s essay in a newly released anthology, Science and Faith in Dialogue.

Panoramic view of the Earth, sun, star and galaxy. Sunrise over planet Earth, view from space. Elements of this image furnished by NASA

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
October 24, 2022

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
Casey Luskin, Circumstellar Habitable Zone, crustal recycling, earth, Earth’s core, Earth’s crust, Earth’s magnetic field, Earth’s mantle, earthlike planets, Geology, Guillermo Gonzalez, habitable planets, How to Build a Habitable Planet, Intelligent Design, Lucky Planet Carl Sagan, Mars, nebular hypothesis, paleomagnetism, planetary science, plate tectonics, rare earth, Science and faith, solar wind, terraforming, terrestrial planets, The Privileged Planet, Venus}

Casey Luskin on the Intelligent Design of Earth for Life

_{Casey Luskin

October 24, 2022

Intelligent Design}

On today’s ID the Future geologist Casey Luskin explains how Earth contains many intricate geological processes required for life. He argues that, taken together, this points to intelligent design rather than dumb luck. This episode is the first half of a talk Dr. Luskin presented at the 2022 Dallas Conference on Science and Faith. Stay tuned for Pt. 2 and a Q&A with his original audience.

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 20, 2022

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
antibiotic resistance, Apologetics 315, appearance of design, bacterial flagellum, BioLogos, Brian Auten, Brian Josephson, cancer research, Casey Luskin, Chad Gross, Charles Townes, chemotaxis, cosmology, cures for cancer, Darwinian Evolution, evolutionary creationism, fine tuning, foresight, Francis Collins, Galactic Habitable Zone, Guillermo Gonzalez, Günter Bechly, ID 3.0, Intelligent Design, intelligent design research, Marcos Eberlin, nano-drills, nanobots, peer-reviewed intelligent design papers, population genetics, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Romans 1, State Museum of Natural History, Stephen Meyer, Stockholm Syndrome, Stuttgart Germany, systems biology, teleology, theistic evolution, unguided evolution, waiting times project, Wikipedia}

Casey Luskin on Why He Favors ID over Theistic Evolution

_{Casey Luskin

July 20, 2022

Intelligent Design}

Today’s ID the Future continues intelligent design theorist Casey Luskin’s conversation with Apologetics 315 podcast hosts Brian Auten and Chad Gross. Here in Part 2, Luskin give a peek behind the scenes of ID 3.0, the current research program inspired by the intelligent design framework. Luskin is then asked to explain his reservations about theistic evolution, and Luskin points out the evidential, rhetorical, and logical problems he sees with the brand of theistic evolution advocated by Francis Collins and Biologos. What about the future of the intelligent design movement? Luskin says he’s optimistic, both because of the exciting research and publication breakthroughs of late, and because of the many converts he’s seeing to the ID framework. According to Luskin, many of these Read More ›

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Author
Michael Newton Keas

Date
July 13, 2022

Categorized
Academic Freedom

Tagged
Bob Marks, Caroline Crocker, critical dialogue, Expelled, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, gatekeeping, generosity, Gollum Effect, Guillermo Gonzalez, honesty, humility, intellectual virtues, Johannes Kepler, moral virtues, peer review, philosophy of science, Richard Sternberg, scientific progress, Smithsonian Institution, theoretical virtues, Times Higher Education, Tycho Brahe, virtue, Wikipedia}

The Gollum Effect in Science, from Tycho Brahe to Today

_{Michael Newton Keas

July 13, 2022

Academic Freedom}

On this ID the Future, host Andrew McDiarmid sits down with historian and philosopher of science Michael Keas to discuss a recent article at Times Higher Education, “My Precious! How Academia’s Gollums Guard Their Research Fields.” The article looks at how scientific progress is being impeded by a culture in which scientists jealously guard their research instead of sharing it. Keas says the problem seems to have gotten worse in recent years but isn’t a new one. He illustrates with the story of Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler. Brahe, a sixteenth-century Danish astronomer, sat on his astronomical research for years, rather than sharing it with Johannes Kepler, his assistant. Kepler only got hold of it when Brahe died unexpectedly shortly Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
November 8, 2021

Categorized
Life Sciences

Tagged
abiogenesis, binary star systems, Casey Luskin, Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, Guillermo Gonzalez, interstellar panspermia, interstellar transport times, Jupiter, Lord Kelvin, meteor impacts, Milky Way, moon, origin of life, panspermia, planet Earth, Svante Arrhenius, undirected panspermia}

It Came from Outer Space? Astrobiologist: Not Likely

_{Guillermo Gonzalez

November 8, 2021

Life Sciences}

On today’s ID the Future astrobiologist Guillermo Gonzalez and host Casey Luskin discuss the idea of undirected panspermia. Gonzalez explains the basic idea and what the best current evidence says about its plausibility. The occasion is his chapter on panspermia in the new anthology A Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, co-edited by Casey Luskin, associate director of Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. Undirected panspermia is the idea that the first life on our planet came from outer space, carried by chance processes from a faraway living planet on space dust, asteroids, or comets either from within our solar system, or from another star system to here. The idea of panspermia was inspired by the extreme difficulty of Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
November 1, 2021

Categorized
Life Sciences

Tagged
astronomy, Atheism, atmosphere, atmospheric fine tuning, birth of science, Boyle, Carl Sagan, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, circumstellar habitable zoon, Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, Copernicus, Descartes, discoverability, earth, Faraday, fine tuning, Galactic Habitable Zone, Galileo, Guillermo Gonzalez, habitability, Intelligent Design, Kepler, light spectrum, Materialism, Maxwell, Milky Way, moon, Newton, pale blue dot, perfect solar eclipses, planetary fine tuning, prisms, Privileged Planet, purposelessness, rainbows, scientific revolution, solar eclipses, spectroscopy, transparent atmosphere}

Carl Sagan Wrong about “Pale Blue Dot,” Says Astrobiologist

_{Guillermo Gonzalez

November 1, 2021

Life Sciences}

On today’s ID the Future, astrobiologist Guillermo Gonzalez unpacks one of his chapters in the new book The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, edited by episode host Casey Luskin. Gonzalez and Luskin look at how our atmosphere as well as the sun, moon, distance from our host star, and position in the Milky Way are all curiously fine tuned not only for life but also for allowing Earth’s human inhabitants to observe and discover things near and far about nature. It’s as if a master designer made the Earth not merely for life but for curious and intelligent beings. What about the fact that Earth is such a tiny part of a vast universe, a “pale blue dot” as Read More ›

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Author
Michael Newton Keas

Date
July 15, 2020

Categorized
Physics and Cosmology, Science

Tagged
__edited, Carl Sagan, Copernican Principle, Copernican revolution, Copernicus, dehumanization, design for discovery, fifth element, Fontenelle, Galileo, Guillermo Gonzalez, heliocentrism, history of science, Johannes Kepler, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Privileged Planet, quintessence}

Cosmos: Possible Worlds and the Copernican Demotion Myth

_{Michael Newton Keas

July 15, 2020

Physics and Cosmology, Science}

On this episode of ID the Future, host Jay Richards interviews historian of science Michael Keas about a new documentary claiming that Copernicus’s heliocentric model of the solar system “demoted” humans from the place of honor at the center of everything. Neil deGrasse Tyson champions this persistent myth in episode 8 of the new National Geographic series Cosmos: Possible Worlds. The reality is quite different. As Keas explains, in Copernicus’s day, the Earth was thought to be at the bottom of the universe, the “sump” where all the filth collected, while the starry heavens were considered the place of honor. Keas and Richards trace the history of the demotion myth and discuss how Copernicus, Kepler, and other luminaries of the Read More ›

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Author
Walter Bradley

Date
February 5, 2020

Tagged
__edited, abiogenesis, Biochemical Predestination, biological evolution, Brian Miller, chemical evolution, Clifford Matthews, Dean Kenyon, Directed panspermia, Fritz Schaefer, Graham Gutz, Guillermo Gonzalez, James M. Tour, origin of life, panspermia, Richard Lemon, Robert Jastrow, Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence, Walter Thompson}

Walter Bradley on the New Mystery of Life’s Origin, Pt. 2

_{Walter Bradley

February 5, 2020}

On this episode of ID the Future, Robert Marks continues his conversation with Walter Bradley, co-author (with Charles Thaxton and Roger Olsen) of the groundbreaking 1984 work The Mystery of Life’s Origin. A revised and expanded edition of the book has just been released with new contributions from James Tour, Guillermo Gonzalez, Stephen Meyer, and others, but today Bradley and Marks discuss the book’s first release, including the cultural context that made finding a non-religious publisher an uphill battle, and discussion of some of the endorsements and early reviews, including one drive-by and four positive responses from distinguished scientists Robert Jastrow, Dean Kenyon, Robert Shapiro, and Fritz Schaefer. Bradley and Marks also discuss some scholars who more recently have testified Read More ›

Technician holding blood tube test in the research laboratory / doctor hand taking a blood sample tube from a rack with machines of analysis in the lab background

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
July 31, 2017

Tagged
__edited, Atheism, biology, Darwin, Darwinism, Empirical, Evolution, Falsification, Guillermo Gonzalez, Intelligent Design, Jonathan Witt, Privileged Planet, Science, Signature in the Cell, Stephen C. Meyer, Testable}

Intelligent Design is Testable

_{Jonathan Witt

July 31, 2017}

On this episode of ID: The Future, CSC Fellow Jonathan Witt explains how Intelligent Design is testable, contrary to the objections of critics. He discusses predictions from biology and astrobiology, and points listeners to an extended list of testable ID predictions available online.