Tag: Habitable Zone

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Eric Hedin

Date
March 29, 2021

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anthropic fine tuning, axial tilt, chance, dumb luck, earth, earth-like planets, extrasolar planets, fine tuning, Galactic Habitable Zone, giant stars, habitability, habitable planets, Habitable Zone, Intelligent Design, main sequence G-type stars, Mars, Martian moons, moon, Privileged Planet, rare earth, red dwarfs, stellar habitable zone, sun, supergiant stars}

Our Finely Tuned Planet Suggests More than Dumb Luck

_{Eric Hedin

March 29, 2021

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Today’s ID the Future spotlights Canceled Science: What Some Atheists Don’t Want You to See with a focus on the book’s look at our privileged planet Earth, and how its location in the galaxy and solar system, as well as various unusual features, makes it strikingly fit for life. Is it just “dumb luck,” as one scientist put it? Host Eric Anderson continues his multi-part conversation with the book’s author, Biola physics professor Eric Hedin, who suggests that “dumb luck” is more of a cop-out than an explanation, and that when one takes all the evidence together, a better explanation for our finely tuned place in the cosmos is a fine-tuner, a designing intelligence. It’s just a taste of the deeper yet extremely accessible dive Hedin makes in his new book, available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers.

Distant planet system in space with exoplanets 3D rendering elements of this image furnished by NASA

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Author
Bijan Nemati

Date
July 24, 2019

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__edited, Albert Einstein, Arthur Eddington, astrobiology, Big Bang, cosmological constant, exoplanets, extrasolar planets, fine-tuning, flat universe, Fred Hoyle, gas giants, Habitable Zone, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Kepler planets, NASA, rare earth, red dwarfs, SETI}

Bijan Nemati on Finding Another Earth

_{Bijan Nemati

July 24, 2019

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On this episode of ID the Future, Bijan Nemati, formerly of CalTech’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and now at the University of Alabama, Huntsville, tells what science is learning about how hard it is to find a planet like Earth. Anywhere. The more we learn about the conditions necessary for a planet to host life, the more we see we may need to search at least tens of thousands of Milky Way galaxies to expect to find another one — at least if it all depends on blind luck. This talk is part of bonus material included with the new, thought-provoking series Science Uprising.

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
July 3, 2019

Tagged
Circumstellar Habitable Zone, exoplanets, fine-tuning, Habitable Zone, The Priviledged Planet}

The Circumstellar Habitable Zone Just Shrank

_{Guillermo Gonzalez

July 3, 2019

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On this episode of ID the Future, Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Jay Richards speaks with astrobiologist Guillermo Gonzalez about new research just reported in the Astrophysical Journal. The research suggests that the circumstellar habitable zone for terrestrial planets around stars is narrower than previously thought. This zone around stars, often referred to as the “goldilocks zone,” is where planets are not too hot and not too cold to support liquid water on the surface and, with it, complex life. But there’s another factor, previously underappreciated, which greatly curtails how much further a planet can be situated from its host star without running into trouble. It makes earth’s position that much more fine-tuned for life and, as Richards and Gonzalez discuss, may also strengthen the design argument they put forward in their book The Privileged Planet, now available as an audiobook.

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Author
Jay Richards

Date
August 18, 2017

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__edited, anthropic fine tuning, astronomy, Circumstellar Habitable Zone, Eclipses, Goldilocks Zone, Habitable Zone, Intelligent Design, Predictions, Privileged Planet}

How a Perfect Solar Eclipse Suggests Intelligent Design

_{Jay Richards

August 18, 2017

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On this episode of ID: The Future, CSC Senior Fellow Jay Richards explains how perfect solar eclipses are the tip of an iceberg-size design argument found in a book he co-wrote, The Privileged Planet. The conditions for a habitable planet (right distance from the right size star, a big but not too big moon that is the right distance away to stabilize Earth’s tilt and circulate its oceans) are also conditions that make perfect solar eclipses from the Earth’s surface much more likely. And perfect eclipses aren’t just eerie and beautiful. They’ve helped scientists test and discover things, and are part of a larger pattern: The conditions needed for a habitable place in the cosmos correlate with the conditions well suited for scientific discovery. As Richards notes, this correlation is inexplicable if the cosmos is the product of chance. But if it’s intelligently designed with creatures like us in mind, it’s just what we might expect.