No Place Like Home: A Reading From The Privileged Planet

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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On this episode of ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid reads an exclusive excerpt from the newly revised, rewritten, and updated twentieth anniversary edition of The Privileged Planet. In 2004, astronomer Dr. Guillermo Gonzalez and author Dr. Jay Richards issued a daring hypothesis: that a pattern exists between the requirements for advanced life in the universe and the requirements for fruitful scientific discovery. They argued that this pattern was more conspiracy than coincidence. Now, twenty years later, a new edition of The Privileged Planet brings fresh analysis, new supporting evidence, and a completely revised text. In this episode, McDiarmid reads the Foreword to the 2024 Edition and the Introduction to the book. 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. The Future. I'm your host Andrew McDermott. Today I'm reading for you an exclusive
0:18.0	excerpt from the revised, rewritten, an updated 20th anniversary edition of the privileged planet by Dr.
0:25.0	Germo Gonzalez and Dr. J Richards. In this provocative book first published in 2004,
0:32.0	Gonzales and Richards
0:33.2	marshal a staggering array of scientific evidence
0:36.1	to counter the modern dogma that Earth is nothing more than the
0:39.5	winner of a blind cosmic lottery.
0:42.3	When the privileged planet was first published in 2004, it garnered both praise and rage.
0:48.0	But its argument has stood the test of time.
0:51.0	In this completely revised 20th anniversary edition, Gonzales and Richards
0:56.5	show how thousands of discoveries of extrasolar planets over the last two decades have only
1:02.1	strengthened their case.
1:03.9	They take readers on a mind expanding journey through our solar system and beyond.
1:09.0	Along the way they explore the mystery of total solar eclipses, the crucial role of water and carbon, the
1:15.1	fine-tuning of physics that makes advanced life possible, and the beginning of cosmic time.
1:21.4	From our cozy blue planet to the edge of the known universe, they show how earth-like planets
1:26.8	are exquisitely fit not only to sustain life, but to provide the best platform to discover the hidden wonders of the Cosmos.
1:35.0	The privileged planet compels us to reconsider our place in the universe.
1:39.0	Far from a cosmic fluke, our world is ingeniously designed, not just for life, but for discovery.
1:46.7	And let me share just one of the endorsements the book has received so far.
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