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Date
January 15, 2021

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, 'Oumuamua, aliens, astronomer, Avi Loeb, design detection, design filter, explanatory filter, extraterrestrial life, extraterrestrials, Harvard University, intelligent design, Live Science, Michael Egnor, podcast, solar system, William A. Dembski}

Avi Loeb: “Nature Does Not Produce Such Things”

_{Science & Culture
January 15, 2021

Physical Sciences

2}

Loeb describes his journey to a radical position on the strange interstellar visitor that’s been dubbed 'Oumuamua. Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
June 7, 2020

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Big Bang, earth, evolution, galaxy, heavy elements, life, planets, Research, solar system, sun, supernova, universe}

Reader’s Question: Planets in the Early Universe

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
June 7, 2020

Physical Sciences

3}

The problem with the early universe is that it was a much more dangerous place. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 13, 2020

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, BIO-Complexity, Circumstellar Habitable Zone, earth, exoplanets, fuel, gravity, Guillermo Gonzalez, Industrial Revolution, Jay Richards, NASA, rockets, solar system, The Privileged Planet}

Guillermo Gonzalez Extends “Privileged Planet” Arguments to Space Travel

_{Casey Luskin
May 13, 2020

Physical Sciences

3}

A skeptic might ask, “Couldn’t a more technologically advanced civilization develop new sources of fuel that require less mass?” Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
April 16, 2020

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, Abraham Loeb, atmosphere, BIO-Complexity, distance, Hubble Space Telescope, hydrogen, Milky Way, Neptune, oxygen, rockets, solar system, The Privileged Planet, Uranus}

Is Space Travel Our Destiny?

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
April 16, 2020

Physical Sciences

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I was motivated to do this study after two papers were published in 2018 on the difficulty of launching rockets from super-earths. Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
April 14, 2020

Categories
Astronomy
Planetology
Rare Earth
Tagged
, __k-review, American Scientist, astrobiology, Christopher McKay, Discovery Institute, earth, extraterrestrial intelligence, extraterrestrial life, galactic habitable zone, Hugh Ross, Icarus, intelligent design, Jay Richards, meteorites, Milky Way, Science (journal), SETI, solar system, The Privileged Planet, University of Washington}

Rare Earth at Twenty — And My Connection

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
April 14, 2020

Astronomy, Planetology, Rare Earth

5}

In principle, the conjoining of the many Rare Earth factors could overwhelm the available probabilistic resources and serve as evidence for Earth’s design. Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
January 16, 2020

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, Africa, Biomimetics, earth, explanatory filter, Gabon, geologists, geysers, intelligent design, No Free Lunch, oxygen, physicists, solar system, specified complexity, universal probability bound, William A. Dembski}

Natural and Artificial Nuclear Reactors: Evidence of Purpose in Energy Production?

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
January 16, 2020

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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In 1972 French physicists discovered that natural nuclear fission reactors were in operation about two billion years ago in Oklo, Gabon in Africa. Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
January 7, 2020

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, Apollo 8, beauty, butterflies, Carl Sagan, color, crystals, earth, Earthrise, flowers, insects, Mars, Moon, natural selection, Neptune, peacock, rainbows, sexual selection, solar system, surprise, Uranus, Venus}

Earth — The Mystery of Our Colorful Home

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
January 7, 2020

Physical Sciences

3}

Certainly, there is no logical reason why life should be wedded to the transcendental value of beauty. Read More ›

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Author
James Le Fanu

Date
September 9, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Tagged
, __edited, Big Bang, Boeing 747, C.S. Lewis, cells, chemical elements, double helix, earth, electromagnetism, fly, Fred Hoyle, geneticists, gravity, Harvard University, humanities, John Polkinghorne, man, mouse, neuroscientists, Nobel Prize, plate tectonics, Sapientia, science, scientism, solar system, speed of light, tornado, universe, William Provine, World War II}

Between Sapientia and Scientia — Michael Aeschliman’s Profound Interpretation

_{James Le Fanu
September 9, 2019

Bioethics, Biology

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Science, the dominant way of knowing of our age, now finds itself caught between a rock and (very) hard place. Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
July 18, 2019

Categories
Astronomy
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, earth, Earth’s crust, fossil fuels, galaxies, Hubble Space Telescope, humans, hydrogen, intelligent design, Milky Way, minerals, Moon, oxygen, solar system, stars}

Remembering the First Manned Moon Landing at 50; What Does the Future Hold?

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
July 18, 2019

Astronomy, Physical Sciences

7}

I remember watching the Apollo moon landings on TV from 1969 to 1972 as a child. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 3, 2019

Categories
Astronomy
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, 'Oumuamua, alien life, carbon-based life, CNN, cosmic fine-tuning, earth, Harvard University, image, McGill University, Michael Egnor, Neil deGrasse Tyson, planetary fine-tuning, prestige, Science Uprising, scientists, solar system, Toronto, UFOs, Undark}

‘Oumuamua Revisited: Prospect of Intelligent Aliens Puts Materialists in a Pickle

_{David Klinghoffer
July 3, 2019

Astronomy, Physical Sciences

5}

A mysterious oblong object, ‘Oumuamua, was observed a couple of years ago, transiting across the Solar System. Read More ›