Carl Sagan Wrong about “Pale Blue Dot,” Says Astrobiologist
Intelligent Design the Future
Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture
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🗓️ 19 January 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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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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