Guillermo Gonzalez

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Rare Earth at Twenty — And My Connection

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
April 14, 2020}

In principle, the conjoining of the many Rare Earth factors could overwhelm the available probabilistic resources and serve as evidence for Earth’s design.

What Astrobiology Teaches about the Origin of Life

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
March 30, 2020}

It is possible that there is no surviving evidence anywhere on Earth of our planet’s first life.

Freeman Dyson: The Passing of an Iconoclastic Physicist

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
March 2, 2020}

Dyson was careful to take an open-minded approach: not fully endorsing design, yet not rejecting it either.

Natural and Artificial Nuclear Reactors: Evidence of Purpose in Energy Production?

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
January 16, 2020}

In 1972 French physicists discovered that natural nuclear fission reactors were in operation about two billion years ago in Oklo, Gabon in Africa.

Earth — The Mystery of Our Colorful Home

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
January 7, 2020}

Certainly, there is no logical reason why life should be wedded to the transcendental value of beauty.

A Crisis in Cosmology?

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
October 17, 2019}

It’s too bad biologists are not as open about crises in their theories. It’s the sign of a healthy science.

Remembering the First Manned Moon Landing at 50; What Does the Future Hold?

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
July 18, 2019}

I remember watching the Apollo moon landings on TV from 1969 to 1972 as a child.

Plate Tectonics: Why Life Is Served on Plates

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
May 23, 2019}

The ground under your feet is literally moving. The continents are drifting apart near an average rate of one inch per year.

On the 15th Anniversary of The Privileged Planet: An Update

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
March 28, 2019}

The basic thesis of TPP is that the best places for intelligent observers are also the best places for observing.

Confirming the Big Bang: The Recent Decades

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
March 7, 2019}

The Big Bang theory also gives us an age for the universe. The latest estimate, based on several cosmological observations, is 13.80 +/- 0.02 billion years.

Confirming the Big Bang: The Early Decades

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
March 4, 2019}

Cosmologists have come a long way since Edwin Hubble published that ratty looking plot of galaxy recession velocities versus distance.

Exoplanets and the Fermi Paradox

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
February 22, 2019}

Contrary to first impressions, exoplanet discoveries actually strengthen the impact of the Fermi Paradox.

Earth Rock from the Moon: Treasure in the Lunar Attic Confirms a Design Prediction

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
January 28, 2019}

The Discovery Principle led me to consider looking to the Moon to study the origin of life empirically.

Of Lunar Eclipses and the Dark Ages Myth

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
January 21, 2019}

Last night Americans across the continent were treated to a most beautiful and informative natural phenomenon.

Proper Credit — Who Discovered Hubble’s Law?

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
January 17, 2019}

Many leading scientists of the day realized the implication of the cosmic expansion — there was a beginning!

Key Figures in Intelligent Design Measure the Impact of Discovery Institute

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
December 12, 2011}

On this special year-end episode of ID The Future, David Boze celebrates the impact of the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science & Culture in supporting scientific research and defending academic freedom for scientists, scholars, and others in the intelligent design movement. Boze interviews astronomer Dr. Guillermo Gonzalez, Biologic Institute director Dr. Douglas Axe, and author and Discovery Institute senior fellow Dr. David Berlinski. Says Berlinski: “Nobody else is doing what the Discovery Institute has been able to do, and that is really put an entire scientific establishment on the defensive, forced for the first time to respond to some very significant criticism…” Support the search for truth! Make a donation to ID The Future …

Discussing the New Exoplanet With Astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
May 20, 2011}

Have scientists discovered a planet with possible life on it? On this episode of ID the Future, Anika Smith interviews astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez, co-author of The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos is Designed for Discovery. As the co-originator of the Galactic Habitable Zone, Dr. Gonzalez knows better than anyone what it takes for a planet to sustain life. Listen in as he tells us whether the newly discovered exoplanet Gliese 581d is …

Order Without Design?

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
May 22, 2009}

New Scientist, is calling The Universe: Order without design by Carlos Calle “excellent.” Why? There’s nothing new here, just the same old multiverse stuff that has been critiqued. The author combines a bunch of highly speculative, mostly metaphysical, controversial theories to reach his conclusions: eternal inflation, string theory and colliding branes. There will ALWAYS be speculative, untestable “cosmological” theories, so someone can always point to the latest ones and say, “See no need for a beginning or fine-tuning by a designer–the latest science says so!” These speculative theories have half-lives measured in years, unlike the now well-established Big Bang theory. In any case, multiverse speculations do not explain those aspects of …