The Problem of Earth Privilege: It’s Getting Worse

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

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

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🗓️ 13 March 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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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.

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0:00.0	I. Hello and welcome to ID the Future. I'm Casey Luskin with Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture in Seattle, Washington.
0:20.0	Today on the show we have with us Guermo Gonzalez.
0:23.0	Guermo is a research scientist at Telus One Scientific in Huntsville, Alabama.
0:27.5	He earned a PhD in astronomy from the University of Washington in 1993
0:32.0	and is authored nearly 90 peer-reviewed scientific papers.
0:35.0	He's also a co-author of a major college-level astronomy textbook and his work has led to
0:40.3	the discovery of two new planets and has been featured in journals such as science,
0:44.8	nature, and on the cover of Scientific American.
0:47.7	In 2004, Giammer Gonzalez co-authored the book The Privileged Planet, How Our Place in the Cosmos is designed for discovery,
0:55.2	a book that is probably familiar to many ID the future listeners. His latest writing is a book chapter
1:00.5	in the volume Science and Faith and Dialogue, published by a South African academic
1:05.4	publisher Aiosis. And his chapter is titled Local Fine Tuning and Habitable Zones.
1:10.4	Germo is also a fellow with Discovery Institute, and it's great to have you on the show with us,
1:15.0	Guiramo.
1:16.0	Thanks for having me.
1:17.0	Yes, well we wanted to have a conversation with you about your chapter in this new volume,
1:21.8	science and faith and dialogue, which by the way is an open access book.
1:25.6	We'll be sure to post a link to it in the description of this podcast so folks who are interested
1:30.1	in reading Germo's chapter can download it for free. But we want to talk about your chapter
1:34.7	about local fine-tuning and habitable zones. And so I'd like to just ask you a start-off question here,
1:40.4	Guirmo. When you talk about fine-tun tuning, what do you mean by fine tuning? And you define this
1:46.9	concept of global versus local fine tuning. So what is the difference between global and local fine-tuning?
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