More from Casey Luskin on Our Intelligently Designed Planet—Plus Q&A

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

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

4 • 993 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Today’s ID the Future continues geologist Casey Luskin’s presentation about how Earth is fine tuned in numerous ways for life, a talk he gave at the 2022 Dallas Conference on Science and Faith. Here in the second half, he highlights the many ways Earth’s precise mix of atmospheric gases is strikingly fit for life. On top of that (or rather, beneath that), Earth’s active geology and water-rich surface—unique in our solar system—are masterful at helping maintain our life-friendly atmosphere over long ages. Luskin argues that these and other finely tuned characteristics of planet Earth strongly suggest intelligent design. He then offers an additional design argument, this one aesthetic in nature, and then takes questions from the audience. Part 1 of his talk Read More ›

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0:00.0	I d the future a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:12.4	Is it incredible good fortune or is there no such thing as luck?
0:17.0	Greetings I'm Tom Gilson and today on ID the future we hear Casey Luskin speaking on the Good Earth.
0:25.0	Insights from geology on the design of our planet for life.
0:29.6	It's a talk he gave at the 2022 Dallas Conference on Science and Faith.
0:34.3	In this second portion of the talk he continues the theme of the first part
0:39.3	heard in an earlier ID the future episode, this planet we live on is astonishingly well suited for life and beautiful besides.
0:50.0	Casey Luskin holds a doctorate in geology from the University of Johannesburg with a specialty in paleomagnetism
0:56.8	and plate tectonics.
0:59.0	He's done geological research with the Scripps Institution for Oceanography, and he's the Associate Director of the Center for Science and Culture at Discovery Institute.
1:10.0	As a bonus for this episode, we'll also hear a most interesting Q&A session that followed
1:16.1	his talk in Dallas.
1:18.1	Okay, so let's talk about the atmosphere.
1:21.5	So many aspects of the Earth's atmosphere are well designed for life. So everybody take a deep breath, right?
1:26.0	Isn't it wonderful that we have this air to breathe? We take air for granted, but we don't
1:31.3	appreciate just how many aspects of Earth's atmosphere were specially crafted so we could be here and take those deep breaths.
1:38.0	So let's talk first about the idea of atmospheric pressure.
1:41.0	Atmospheric pressure, if you think back to your high school physics,
1:44.8	is the force per unit area exerted against an object
1:48.2	by the air as gravity pulls that air downward
1:51.6	towards the earth.
1:52.6	Okay?
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