A Privileged Place for Life and Discovery

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

Science, Philosophy, Astronomy, Society & Culture, Life Sciences

4 • 993 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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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 ›

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0:00.0	ID the future
0:05.0	future a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:12.0	Is our solar system unique and do we live on a privileged planet?
0:16.0	I'm Casey Luskin with ID the Future and today we have on the show with us
0:20.0	Germa Gonzalez, a research scientist at Telus One Scientific in Huntsville, Alabama.
0:25.7	Germo is a fellow with Discovery Institute.
0:28.5	He is well known as he is a co-author of the book, The Privileged Planet,
0:32.7	how our place in the Cosmos is designed for discovery.
0:35.7	He's made many important scientific contributions.
0:38.5	He's authored nearly 90 scientific peer-reviewed papers,
0:42.0	as well as a major college-level astronomy
0:44.7	textbook with Cambridge University Press. His work has led to the discovery of two
0:49.1	new planets outside of our solar system and his research has been featured in science,
0:54.4	nature, and on the cover of Scientific American. We're here with Guillermo today
0:58.6	talking about his most recent chapter that he's written, a chapter in the volume,
1:03.8	Science and Faith and Dialogue, published by the South African academic publisher
1:08.0	Aiosis, and Germo, your book chapter is titled
1:11.8	Local Fine Tuning and Habitable Zones.
1:14.2	In our recent podcast, we discussed some elements of the Circumceller Habitable Zone, which
1:19.4	you defined, and we wanted to come back and continue the conversation.
1:22.4	So thank you for joining us once again here.
1:24.8	Happy to be here.
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