Astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez Reads His Solar Eclipse Poem “Totality”

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

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

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🗓️ 29 July 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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On this episode, host Andrew McDiarmid welcomes astrophysicist Guillermo Gonzalez back to the program to read and discuss his poem "Totality: A Celestial Theater," written to commemorate the total solar eclipse that occurred in April 2024. You may already be familiar with Gonzalez's popular book The Privileged Planet, co-authored with Dr. Jay Richards, unpacking the arguments for our privileged place in the cosmos. You might also have heard about his new young adult novel The Farm at the Center of the Universe, co-written with Dr. Jonathan Witt. But you likely didn't know this accomplished scientist and author is also a poet! Listen as Gonzalez discusses and then reads his poem aloud. Source

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0:00.0	I d the future a podcast about evolution and intelligent design
0:12.1	welcome to ID the future I'm your host Andrew McDermott. Well today I welcome
0:17.0	back astrophysicist Germal Gonzales to discuss his experience of the
0:21.4	recent solar eclipse and the poem he wrote to commemorate the occasion.
0:27.2	Gonzales is a senior fellow at Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture.
0:32.0	He received his PhD in Astronomy in 1993 from the University of
0:36.1	Washington. He has done postdoctoral work at the University of Texas, Austin, and at the University
0:42.1	of Washington, and has received fellowships, grants and awards
0:45.7	from such institutions as NASA, the University of Washington, the Templeton Foundation,
0:51.1	the Scientific Research Society Sigma Psi, and the National Science Foundation.
0:55.8	Geremo, welcome back to ID the Future.
0:58.6	Well, I'll be here again.
1:01.1	Yeah, so we recently caught up with you and your co-author Jonathan Witt to discuss the young adult novel you wrote together,
1:08.0	The Farm at the Center of the Universe.
1:10.0	Enjoy that discussion.
1:12.0	And right before the launch of that book,
1:14.0	you co-hosted Discovery Institute's
1:16.0	Total Solar Eclipse experience,
1:18.0	an event that we hosted in Waxahatchi, Texas,
1:22.0	and it offered one of the best and most accessible viewing locations in the US
1:26.6	to take in this total solar eclipse that humanity got to enjoy recently. And as part of that event you treated participants to a reading of a poem you wrote for the occasion called
1:37.7	Totality, a Celestial Theater. In a few minutes we'll unpack some of the insight in your poem and I'll ask you to read if you will the poem in full for listeners
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