Author: Guillermo Gonzalez

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
January 15, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Technology
Tagged
, civilization, earth, fluid flow, gold, habitability, jewelry, life, lubricants, mantle, minerals, mining, planets, subduction zones, sulfur}

Earth’s Gold-Mining Machine

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
January 15, 2025

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Technology

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Earth operates an extraordinary natural factory that concentrates gold from barely detectable amounts into rich deposits that humans can mine. How? Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
December 19, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, artificial intelligence, brain, butterflies, creativity, DNA, embryonic development, flowers, folds, information content, large language models, nucleotides, origami, simulations, spinal cord}

Life and Origami: Lessons from the Art of Paper-Folding

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
December 19, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The differences between an origami figure and a living thing are more instructive than their similarities. Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
November 25, 2024

Categories
Environment & Climate
Physical Sciences
Technology
Tagged
, catastrophism, Christians, climate change, climate scientists, denial, Department of Energy, earth, Europe, Francis Collins, guilt by association, Holocaust deniers, human flourishing, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Judith Curry, NASA, temperature, The Road to Wisdom, William Happer}

Francis Collins Employs Climate Change as a Cudgel

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
November 25, 2024

Environment & Climate, Physical Sciences, Technology

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Collins identifies as a Christian, but he seems to have missed a glaring instance of design in the Earth system. Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
October 14, 2024

Categories
Astronomy
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Planetology
Tagged
, Alabama, americans, aurora, aurora borealis, beauty, Casey Luskin, cemetery, comets, faith and science, Halloween, intelligent design, Jay Richards, photography, Sky & Telescope, sunset, The Privileged Planet, total solar eclipse}

Comet Caps a Year of Natural Beauty

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
October 14, 2024

Astronomy, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Planetology

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I took a set of images of comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS last night, which was the first sighting I had of it. It's visible to the unaided eye. Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
October 9, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Planetology
Tagged
, earth, Europa, Europa Clipper, intelligent design, Jupiter, life, moons, planets, spacecraft, stars}

Two Poems for Europa, Jupiter’s Lifeless Moon

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
October 9, 2024

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Planetology

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Ms. Limón’s poem doesn't quite capture the aliveness of Earth and the likely deadness of Europa. So, here's one that better reflects these themes. Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
October 7, 2024

Categories
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, astrobiologists, David Coppedge, earth, Enceladus, Europa, Europa Clipper, European Space Agency, geysers, hydrothermal vents, Jay Richards, Jupiter, life, magnetic field, Moon, oceans, organic molecules, Saturn, seafloor, solar system, The Privileged Planet, Washington University, water, water vapor}

Europa Clipper: The Moon Mission Making Waves

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
October 7, 2024

Life Sciences, Physical Sciences

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Astrobiologists hope this mission will help answer a couple of big questions in astrobiology. Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
September 12, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Technology
Tagged
, Anthropic Principle, black holes, cosmogony, Cosmological Natural Selection, elements, evolution, evolutionary theory, intelligent design, intelligent life, Jay Richards, Lee Smolin, life, planets, scientific discovery, silicon, stars, superconductivity, The Privileged Planet, universes}

Were We Made to Make Black Holes?

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
September 12, 2024

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Technology

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I want to compare our book with a 2020 paper by Jeffery Shainline of the National Institutes of Standards and Technology. Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
September 10, 2024

Categories
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, alchemy, ancient Greeks, Benjamin Wiker, compounds, elements, gold, human vision, hydrogen, ions, Jonathan Witt, matter, oxygen, reactions, sun, Svante Arrhenius, The Privileged Planet, water, William Nicholson}

Weird Water and Its Role in the Rise of Chemistry

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
September 10, 2024

Chemistry, Intelligent Design

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Water has been crucial in the transition from alchemy to the science of chemistry. Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
September 5, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, anthropic fine-tuning, creation, creator, entropy, fine structure constant, initial conditions, John Templeton Foundation, particle physics, Robin Collins, signal, The Privileged Planet, Yale University}

Robin Collins’s “Fine-Tuning for Discoverability” Argument

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
September 5, 2024

Cosmology, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics

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In November 2000 we each presented at the “Science and Evidence for Design in the Universe” symposium at Yale University. Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
September 3, 2024

Categories
Geology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Rare Earth
Technology
Tagged
, advanced life, atmosphere, biosphere, coal, copper, Donald Brownlee, earth, earthquakes, fossils, Global Positioning System, gold, Hawaiian Islands, iron, Jay Richards, magnetic field, Peter Ward, plate tectonics, salt, The Privileged Planet, uranium}

Plate Tectonics and Scientific Discovery

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
September 3, 2024

Geology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Rare Earth, Technology

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Plate tectonics is important for advanced life in multiple ways and planets with plate tectonics are very rare. Read More ›