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Pope Benedict and Nature’s Genius

Jonathan Witt and Benjamin Wiker
October 1, 2007
Part 1: The Limits of Scientism The public conversation about the evidence for design in nature has grown more heated of late even as it has grown more complicated. While newspaper reporters continue to serve up easily digestible sound bites, the controversy has developed into one far more … » Go

Whose “War” Is It, Anyway?

Casey Luskin
September 15, 2006

While intelligent design scientists and researchers see their efforts to develop the emerging theory of intelligent design as a search for objective answers, journalist Chris Mooney sees an army dedicated to destroying science itself. These mild-mannered scientists, who base their research on … » Go

The Privileged Planet

Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay W. Richards
February 1, 2004
Co-authored by two Discovery Institute Fellows, astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez and philosopher Jay W. Richards, The Privileged Planet presents a new form of design argument which can be applied to the level of the cosmos. Design proponents have long held that the physical constants of nature and … » Go

Scientists Should Keep Minds Open

Jay W. Richards and Guillermo Gonzalez
November 21, 2005
By now, everyone who follows the news has heard about intelligent design (ID). Contrary to caricatures, it’s a theory that draws on insights in well-established fields such as information and probability theory, forensics, and the philosophy of science. Design theorists argue that certain … » Go

Introduction to The Privileged Planet

Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay W. Richards
April 26, 2005

Even more mysterious than the fact that our location is so congenial to diverse measurement and discovery is that these same conditions appear to correlate with habitability. We don’t think this is merely coincidental. It cries out for another explanation, an explanation that suggests … » Go

Just Lucky, I Guess

Robert Irion
January 1, 2005
This article, published by California Wild Magazine, contains a review of The Privileged Planet by Discovery Institute Center for Science & Culture Senior Fellows Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay Richards: The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos is Designed for Discovery, by Guillermo … » Go

Do we live on a “privileged” planet?

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December 1, 2004
The Privileged Planet Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay W. Richards, 444 pages, Regnery Publishing, Washington, D.C., 2004; ISBN 0-89526-065-4; hardcover, $27.95. Is there life elsewhere in the universe? The Privileged Planet gives a new spin to the argument that conditions on Earth are essentially … » Go

Review of The Privileged Planet

Discovery Institute
October 21, 2004
The Privileged Planet. Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay W. Richards. Washington, D.C. Regnery Publishing Inc., 2004. 446 pages. $27.95 hardcover. Do we owe our existence on Earth to chance or design? Do we occupy a privileged spot in space and time, primed for life and discovery? Astronomer Guillermo … » Go

The Gods Must Be Tidy!

Jonathan Witt
August 1, 2004
When as a boy I read “The Scouring of the Shire” near the end of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, I could not understand why Tolkien felt the need to tack on such an anti-climactic and shabby bit of evil. Only later, as I began to notice modernity’s penchant for … » Go

Are We Alone?

Jay W. Richards and Guillermo Gonzalez
May 1, 2004
The American taxpayers recently footed the bill for a risky $800 million NASA mission. The good news? It worked. In January, two NASA landers bounced to their destinations and released their rovers Spirit and Opportunity to prowl the Martian landscape. These remarkable little robots were not … » Go