Tag: The Privileged Planet

aliens in the desert take a selfie. Generative AI

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 15, 2025

Categories
Planetology
Scientific Reasoning
Technology
Tagged
, alien civilizations, astrobiologists, Avi Loeb, BBC, Carl Sagan, David Kipping, extraterrestrials, Gizmodo, Hayabusa2, Jacob Haqq Misra, John Gertz, Jonathan O’Callaghan, Matt Williams, NASA, OSIRIS-REx, Principle of Mediocrity, Ravi Kopparapu, Rolf Dobelli, Science Alert, Science Focus, SETI, solar system, technology, technosignatures, The Privileged Planet}

The Search for Extraterrestrials: Keeping Hope Alive

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 15, 2025

Planetology, Scientific Reasoning, Technology

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The question looms: How much can science avoid facts while retaining the character of science? Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
August 11, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Little Book of Coincidence in the Solar System, amplitude, asteroids, coincidences, comets, earth, ellipse, fine-tuning, geocentric model, geometric patterns, Golden Ratio, Guillermo Gonzalez, heliocentric model, inferior conjunction, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, Jay Richards, John Martineau, kinetic energy, Mars, Mercury, moons, NASA, Newton’s laws, orbital paths, physics, planets, quantum effects, semimajor axes, solar system, sun, The Privileged Planet, trigonometry, Venus}

Geometric Design in the Solar System

_{Eric Hedin
August 11, 2025

Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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My favorite example of such geometric design arises from the mean orbits of our innermost two planets, Mercury and Venus. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 6, 2025

Categories
Astronomy
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Allan CP, Aristotle, atheists, bifurcation, children, Christian civilization, Christians, civilization, Emma Camp, Evangelicals, gender ideology, Guillermo Gonzalez, materialists, New Atheism, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Reason Magazine, Richard Dawkins, Roman Catholicism, Socrates, surgical sexual mutilation, The Privileged Planet, The Science Dilemma, theism, theists, tradcath, wokeness}

Jay Richards on an Icon of Intelligent Design and 20 Years of a Bifurcating Culture

_{David Klinghoffer
August 6, 2025

Astronomy, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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If wokeness leads to promoting surgical sexual mutilation of children, maybe we need to rethink the whole thing. Read More ›

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Date
March 22, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, astrobiologists, Casey Luskin, clock-maker, Cosmic Habitable Age, deism, designer, fine-tuning, fingernails, galactic habitable zone, Guillermo Gonzalez, ID the Future, intelligent design, Jay Richards, podcast, Science and Faith in Dialogue, Stephen Dedalus, The Privileged Planet, theism}

Does Cosmic Fine-Tuning Suggest Theism or Deism?

_{Science and Culture
March 22, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Casey Luskin continues his conversation with astrobiologist Guillermo Gonzalez about the many ways Earth’s place in the cosmos is finely tuned for life. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
March 15, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, Copernican principle, earth, extra-solar planets, fine-tuning, Guillermo Gonzalez, intelligent design, local fine-tuning, Marcos Eberlin, planets, Science and Faith in Dialogue, Stephen Meyer, The Privileged Planet, theism, universal fine-tuning}

The Growing Evidence of Earth’s Privilege

_{Andrew McDiarmid
March 15, 2025

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

2}

Astrobiologist Guillermo Gonzalez begins a two-part conversation with host Casey Luskin. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 8, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, asteroid belt, Carl Zimmer, cosmos, DOGE, Enceladus, Europa, Europa Clipper, evolution, Ganymede, habitability, intelligent design, Jupiter, Madagascar, NASA, New York Times, Saturn, The Privileged Planet, Titan}

Hey DOGE, Take a Look at NASA

_{David Klinghoffer
February 8, 2025

Evolution, Physical Sciences

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For the materialist, atheist evolutionary viewpoint to be valid, life must be easy to evolve, so aliens MUST be out there somewhere. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
February 2, 2025

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, “consensus science”, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Christianity, Darwinism, Enlightenment, faith and science, Guillermo Gonzalez, intelligent design, Jay Richards, Jonah Goldberg, Jordan Peterson, Living in Wonder, Matthew Crawford, New York Times, Paul Kingsnorth, podcast, religion, Return of the God Hypothesis, Rod Dreher, Stephen Meyer, The Privileged Planet, universe}

Ross Douthat on the Universe’s Remarkable Intelligibility

_{Peter Biles
February 2, 2025

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics

3}

Suppose that science itself suffers if we preemptively rule out certain conclusions. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
January 13, 2025

Categories
Origin of Life
Planetology
Rare Earth
Tagged
, algae, aliens, astrobiologists, bacteria, C.S. Lewis, chance, Christianity, European Space Agency, extraterrestrial life, Guillermo Gonzalez, Holy Grail, intelligent design, Jay Richards, materialists, methodological materialism, Milky Way, NASA, natural laws, natural selection, space exploration, The Privileged Planet}

God and the Odds of ET

_{Jonathan Witt
January 13, 2025

Origin of Life, Planetology, Rare Earth

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There is a rational and intellectually defensible strategy for maintaining a measure of optimism about the possibility of extra-terrestrial life. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
December 31, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Ann Gauger, atheism, Brian Miller, Brown University, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, citation bluffing, Darwin Day, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinian materialism, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, Dave Farina, Debating Design, Douglas Axe, Emily Reeves, Ernst Mayr, Finding Darwin's God, Francis Collins, Guillermo Gonzalez, Icons of Evolution, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Jonathan McLatchie, junk DNA, Kenneth Miller, Marcos Eberlin, Michael Behe, Nature’s Destiny, No Free Lunch, Oxford University, Oxford University Press, Professor Dave, proteins, PZ Myers, Richard Dawkins, Robert Laughlin, Signature in the Cell, Stanford University, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, The Design Inference, The Edge of Evolution, The Privileged Planet, Thomas Nagel, University of Chicago, University of Minnesota, What Darwin Didn’t Know}

No. 2 Story of 2024: Darwinists Devolve

_{John G. West
December 31, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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One sign of a robust scientific theory is the quality of its most prominent proponents. But serious advocates of Darwinism have become an endangered species. 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 ›