The Problem of Earth Privilege: It's Getting Worse

Episode 1722 March 13, 2023 00:22:41
The Problem of Earth Privilege: It's Getting Worse
Intelligent Design the Future
The Problem of Earth Privilege: It's Getting Worse

Mar 13 2023 | 00:22:41

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Show Notes

On today’s ID the Future, astrobiologist Guillermo Gonzalez, co-author of The Privileged Planet, provides a rapid survey of some of the growing evidence that Earth is finely tuned in numerous ways to allow for life. He draws a helpful distinction between local fine tuning and universal fine tuning. And he tells us about the many extra-solar planets astronomers have discovered in recent years and how all that new data continues to undermine the misguided assumption (encouraged by the misnamed “Copernican Principle”) that Earth is just a humdrum planet. Far from it, Gonzalez argues. The conversation is occasioned by Gonzalez’s essay Read More ›

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