Jay Richards on New Expanded Edition of The Privileged Planet

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🗓️ 2 September 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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In 2004, Dr. Jay Richards and Dr. Guillermo Gonzalez published a bold hypothesis: not only is Planet Earth well-suited for advanced life like ourselves, it's also finely tuned for scientific discovery. Materialists put this down to cosmic coincidence, but the array of evidence Richards and Gonzalez marshal in support of their argument suggests otherwise. On this episode of ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid speaks with Dr. Jay Richards about his work on a revised, rewritten, and updated 20th anniversary edition of The Privileged Planet. Source

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0:00.0	I.
0:03.0	I D. The Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:12.0	Welcome to I. I'm your host Andrew McDermott. Well today I'm
0:16.2	excited to sit down with Dr. J Richards to discuss his work on a revised,
0:20.7	rewritten, an updated 20th anniversary edition of the privileged planet, the 2004 book
0:26.8	he co-authored with Dr. Germel Gonzalez.
0:30.3	Dr. Richards is director of the Devost Center and William E Simon Senior Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation.
0:37.0	He's also a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, an editor at large of the Stream. He's the author or editor of more of the stream.
0:43.0	He's the author of more than a dozen books,
0:46.0	including money, greed, and God, and the human advantage.
0:50.0	Jay, it's all good to have you back on the show.
0:52.0	Thanks so much, Andrew.
0:53.0	Good to be with you.
0:54.0	Well, our topic today is a new edition of the Privilege Planet,
0:58.0	which contains responses to critics,
1:00.0	lots of updated facts,
1:02.0	some new arguments, and completely rewritten and improved text throughout.
1:07.0	But before we get to that, let's just set the stage a little bit and remind listeners how the privileged planet originally came to be and what you
1:14.4	set out to do with the book. Yeah it came to be in lots of coincidences
1:19.9	actually I was working full-time at Discovery Institute in so around 1999 in downtown Seattle and read a piece in the Wall Street Journal that was published by this postdoc in astronomy at the University of
1:34.7	Washington, which for non-Siaatellites is about three miles away from downtown Seattle.
1:40.1	It's a guy named Guillermo Gonzalez, and called just called him and said oh this is great.
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