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Intelligent Design the Future

Carl Sagan Wrong about “Pale Blue Dot,” Says Astrobiologist

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

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

4.31K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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On today’s ID the Future from the archive, astrobiologist Guillermo Gonzalez unpacks one of his chapters in the book The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, edited by episode host Casey Luskin. Gonzalez discusses the fine-tuning that makes Earth possible and why our existence is far from insignificant.

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0:00.0

I. Welcome to ID the Future. I'm Casey Laskin and today I'm speaking with Guillermo Gonzalez, a senior fellow at Discovery Institute, an astronomer with a PhD from the University of Washington who's had quite an accomplished career having discovered two extra solar planets,

0:27.0

published dozens of peer-reviewed scientific papers,

0:30.0

and helped develop new fine-tuning arguments such as the Galactic Habitable Zone.

0:34.0

Germo is the co-author with Jay Richards of the book The Privileged Planet,

0:38.4

how our place in the Cosmos is designed for discovery.

0:42.0

And our occasion for this podcast today is Germo's contributions to a new book that's being released in October 2021,

0:48.4

titled The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith,

0:52.0

exploring the ultimate questions about life in the

0:54.3

cosmos, which is being published by Harvest House. I'm a co-editor of the book along

0:58.7

with Bill Damsky and Joseph Holden, and we certainly hope you'll check it out.

1:02.3

It has contributions from leading ID scientists

1:05.2

including not just Germa but also Stephen Meyer, Michael Bihy, Douglas acts, Brian Miller,

1:11.2

Jonathan Wells, Walter Bradley, Robert Marks, and many others.

1:15.0

And it addresses numerous important topics related to science and faith.

1:19.0

So Germo, thank you so much for coming on the show with us today.

1:22.0

It's my pleasure.

1:23.4

Thanks for inviting me.

1:24.3

And I also want to thank you for your contributions to this book.

1:28.0

I think you had more essays in this book year

1:30.7

more than any other contributor who was not an editor for the volume.

1:34.1

So thanks for the work you did on this.

1:36.1

Sure.

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