Tag: gold

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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
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

7}

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 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 ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 18, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Ball State University, bronze, copper, crust, Darwinian processes, Eric Hedin, foresight, gold, human nature, ID the Future, iron, metals, microbes, planning, platinum, podcast, preparation, renewable energy, silver}

The Story of Metals Points to Nature’s Foresight, Planning, Preparation

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 18, 2024

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

2}

A confluence of conditions conspired to bring metals to Earth and make them accessible to humans. But can a Darwinian process take the credit? Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 20, 2024

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Geology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences
Physics
Rare Earth
Technology
Tagged
, agriculture, Andrew McDiarmid, Brian Miller, cooking, earth, Earth’s surface, evidence, fire, food, foresight, gold, hunting, ID the Future, intelligent design, iron, likelihood ratio, physicists, plate tectonics, soil, technological advancement, universe, water cycle}

How Earth is Designed for Human Technology

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 20, 2024

Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Physics, Rare Earth, Technology

3}

Is all this a coincidence? We think that’s a stretch. One or two fortunate parameters might be called a fluke. Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
April 11, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, clouds, corona, Dallas, Discovery Institute, forecast, gold, heart, light, mind, Moon, planets, poetry, sky, solar eclipse, soul, sun, totality, Waxahachie}

Solar Eclipse Right Brain Meanderings

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
April 11, 2024

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

4}

Monday in Waxahachie started grey and misty. The forecast for the time of totality was still uncertain. Read More ›

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Date
October 15, 2020

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, appendix, astrophysics, biochemists, cancer, cells, chemical reactions, copper, detoxification, earth, elements, French National Centre for Scientific Research, gold, heavy elements, human beings, intelligent design, iron, Live Science, lysosomes, magnesium, manganese, metabolism, Michael Denton, Nature Communications, nucleosynthesis, The Miracle of the Cell, therapeutics, tonsils, transition metals, zinc}

Does Gold Have a Purpose? Science Hints at Answers

_{Evolution News
October 15, 2020

Biology, Chemistry, Intelligent Design, Physics

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A gold rush makes sense. But a copper rush? Not so much. And yet, perhaps there is more to gold than aesthetics. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
July 30, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, aluminum, ambient temperatures, copper, ductility, Earth’s crust, fire, Fire-Maker series, fitness, gold, iron, lead, machinery, mantle, metallurgy, metals, rocks, silver, steam engine, Stone Age}

In Praise of Copper, a Gift from Nature

_{Michael Denton
July 30, 2020

Intelligent Design

5}

If the conductivity of copper were ten times less, wires would have to be ten times the cross-sectional area to provide the same conductivity. Read More ›