How a Perfect Solar Eclipse Suggests Intelligent Design

Episode 1044 August 18, 2017 00:18:09
How a Perfect Solar Eclipse Suggests Intelligent Design
Intelligent Design the Future
How a Perfect Solar Eclipse Suggests Intelligent Design

Aug 18 2017 | 00:18:09

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Show Notes

On this episode of ID: The Future, CSC Senior Fellow Jay Richards explains how perfect solar eclipses are the tip of an iceberg-size design argument found in a book he co-wrote, The Privileged Planet. The conditions for a habitable planet (right distance from the right size star, a big but not too big moon that is the right distance away to stabilize Earth’s tilt and circulate its oceans) are also conditions that make perfect solar eclipses from the Earth’s surface much more likely. And perfect eclipses aren’t just eerie and beautiful. They’ve helped scientists test and discover things, and are part of a larger pattern: The conditions needed for a habitable place in the cosmos correlate with the conditions well suited for scientific discovery. As Richards notes, this correlation is inexplicable if the cosmos is the product of chance. But if it’s intelligently designed with creatures like us in mind, it’s just what we might expect.

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