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Date
October 2, 2012

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, David Berlinski, The Privileged Planet}

Check This Out: New Hubble “Extreme Deep Field”

_{Science & Culture
October 2, 2012

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Some 5,500 galaxies in a tiny patch of dark sky — for most of human history, who could have imagined such things?

Alfred Russel Wallace’s Down-to-Earth Astrobiology

_{Michael Flannery
September 14, 2012

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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For Wallace the conditions required for life (much less the complex diversity of life found on earth) were so many that they make the likelihood of extraterrestrial life highly improbable. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 13, 2012

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, The Privileged Planet}

Privileged Planet Update: Jupiter Takes One for the Home Team

_{David Klinghoffer
September 13, 2012

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Leading physicist George Wetherill argued that we owe our planetary survival to the gas giant. Read More ›

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Author
Tessa Rath

Date
September 11, 2012

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __k-review, events, The Privileged Planet}

San Diego: Are You Ready for the (Free!) Science and Faith Conference on Saturday?

_{Tessa Rath
September 11, 2012

Faith & Science

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Here is a brief sneak peek into a few of the scheduled presentations. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 25, 2012

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, The Privileged Planet, video}

More Views of a Privileged Planet

_{David Klinghoffer
July 25, 2012

Physical Sciences

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This is the second video I've recommended to you in as many weeks that offers an awesome and surprisingly poignant view of the turning Earth as seen from space. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 16, 2012

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, The Privileged Planet, video}

Privileged Planet: Our Thin, Exquisitely Delicate Atmosphere

_{David Klinghoffer
July 16, 2012

Physical Sciences

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It takes a time-lapse moving picture like this (courtesy of NASA and editor Alex Rivest) to get a really clear sense of the film of gases that surrounds our planet. Read More ›

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Date
February 3, 2012

Categories
Astronomy
Tagged
, __edited, development, embryology, extraterrestrials, Guillermo Gonzalez, habitable zone, information, planet, science, The Privileged Planet}

Stop Us If You’ve Heard This One Before

_{Science & Culture
February 3, 2012

Astronomy

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So this astronomer walks into a bar and says, "It's the holy grail of exoplanet research..." Read More ›

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Date
January 18, 2012

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, evolution, Genesis, Illustra Media, Joe Thornton, Richard Lenski, Robert Jastrow, Stephen Hawking, The Privileged Planet, video}

God and the Astronomers, Revisited

_{Science & Culture
January 18, 2012

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Physical Sciences

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"A point of creation would be a place where science broke down. One would have to appeal to religion and the hand of God." Guess who said that? Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
January 12, 2012

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Genesis, Illustra Media, Robert Jastrow, Stephen Hawking, The Privileged Planet}

Is James Shapiro a Design Theorist?

_{William A. Dembski
January 12, 2012

Cosmology, Intelligent Design

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Shapiro is as dismissive of Darwinism as any ID proponent. On the other, he constantly gives public notice that he is not on the side of ID. Read More ›

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Date
December 23, 2011

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, __k-review, aliens, chance, intelligent design, John Gribbin, Kepler, probability, Richard Dawkins, The Privileged Planet, William A. Dembski}

Professor Angry and the Argument from Probabilistic Resources

_{Science & Culture
December 23, 2011

Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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An anonymous professor at the University of Minnesota tries to knock down not an actual argument for intelligent design but the most simplistic parody. Read More ›