Ward, “The Galactic Habitable Zone: Galactic Chemical Evolution”, Icarus 152 (2001):185-200) came from that scientific research. Gonzalez was part of a team of scientists working for NASA on a project trying to determine whether or not there is life “out there”.Īt least one peer-reviewed paper (G. 3 (1999): 3.18- 3.20), that peaked the book’s co-author’s (Jay Richards) interest. It was Gonzalez’s paper “Wonderful Eclipses,” Astronomy & Geophysics 40, no.

Guillermo Gonzalez, one of the authors of “The Privileged Planet”, was a (Carl) Sagonite. But if science is a search for the best explanation, based on the actual evidence from the physical world, rather than merely a search for the best materialistic or impersonal explanations of the physical world, how responsible is it to adopt a principle that makes one incapable of seeing an entire class of evidence?- page 270 In fact, no amount of evidence for apparent design could ever count as evidence of actual design. Which sparked a lengthy discussion, which at first I moved to Sandbox, but will now move here. In reality, like any other planet, our positions are relatively fixed for much longer than our lifetime and radiation from the stars would kill us if we got close enough to observe them, provided the gravitational forces or asteroid impacts don’t kill us first. Our atmosphere would shield us from almost any deadly radiation but not impede any signal we require for observing the universe. Our solar system’s orbit would take us close to other star systems so we could investigate them without having to build spaceships that take more than a scientist’s lifetime to get anywhere. We would also have a unique orbit both within our solar system, and as part of it. This position would also cut down on the effects of gravitational lensing. We would sit on “top” of the universe so we could see more star systems than having to look “through” a mass of stars.

Toronto posted this comment on another thread:Ī privileged planet, ( for observation of the universe ), would be one that could see “most” of the universe, i.e.

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