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The “Hubble Tension” and the Big Bang

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
April 28, 2024}

One thing I am fairly certain about: overthrowing the Big Bang theory is not in the offing.

Solar Eclipse Right Brain Meanderings

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
April 11, 2024}

Monday in Waxahachie started grey and misty. The forecast for the time of totality was still uncertain.

Safe Viewing of the April 8 Solar Eclipse

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
April 7, 2024}

Unfortunately, there are some unscrupulous people selling fake eclipse glasses. This may not seem like a big deal to some.

A Crowd-Sourced Solar Eclipse Experiment

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
March 27, 2024}

The Sensor Logger phone app can record and store the readings from any combination of your phone’s sensors.

Profound Impact of the Summer Seminars on ID — Application Deadline March 31

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
March 18, 2024}

The program, to be held at the spectacular Glen Eyrie Castle in Colorado, is intended primarily for undergrads and graduate students.

A Portal to the Heavens: Preparing for the Solar Eclipse

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
March 5, 2024}

While this is not a science experiment per se, be sure to talk with people soon after totality and note commonalities in what you hear.

Dallas Conference: Astrobiology Reveals Earth as a Rare Jewel

_{Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay W. Richards
January 22, 2024}

We are learning that Earth’s rare qualities are important for its habitability. More, Earth offers us an exceptional platform for scientific discoveries.

Scientists Behaving Badly: Suppressing Intelligent Design Was Only the Start

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
December 4, 2023}

The best that each of us can do to fight back is to continue educating as many people as possible.

The Big Bang Survives Two Tests

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
November 2, 2023}

M92 is one of about 160 known globular star clusters in the Milky Way galaxy and is estimated to contain about 330,000 stars.

Local Fine-Tuning and Habitable Zones

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
April 6, 2023}

In considering fine-tuning, physicists assume that the constants and initial conditions (and possibly the physical laws) could have been different.

New Study: The Milky Way Is Exceptional

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
January 30, 2023}

“You might have to travel a half a billion light years from the Milky Way, past many, many galaxies, to find another cosmological wall with a galaxy like ours.”

Do We Live on a Privileged Planet?

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
October 25, 2021}

Yes, rainbows are beautiful, but are they good for anything? Indeed, they have been very important for science.

Eclipse Miracle — An ID Book for Children

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
June 7, 2021}

It is encouraging to me that someone else came to the same basic conclusion as I did following my observation of a total solar eclipse in India in 1995.

Reader’s Question: Planets in the Early Universe

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
June 7, 2020}

The problem with the early universe is that it was a much more dangerous place.

Is Space Travel Our Destiny?

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
April 16, 2020}

I was motivated to do this study after two papers were published in 2018 on the difficulty of launching rockets from super-earths.

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.