Image credit: Discovery Institute. Is Earth a rare jewel or an insignificant speck? The science of astrobiology is revealing that the Earth and the Solar System are anything but run-of-the-mill. We are learning that Earth’s rare qualities are important for its habitability. More than that, Earth offers us an exceptional platform to make wide-ranging scientific discoveries. Join Jay W. Richards and me on February 17 at the Dallas Conference on Science and Faith as we speak on “How Earth Is Designed for Scientific Discovery.” Find more information here including a link to register
Photo by Nathan Jacobson, © Discovery Institute (CC BY-SA 4.0) Senior Fellow , Center for Science and CultureGuillermo Gonzalez is a Senior Fellow at Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture. He received his Ph.D. in Astronomy in 1993 from the University of Washington. He has done post-doctoral work at the University of Texas, Austin and at the University of Washington and has received fellowships, grants and awards from such institutions as NASA, the University of Washington, the Templeton Foundation, Sigma Xi (scientific research society) and the National Science Foundation. In 2024, he co-authored the YA novel The Farm at the Center of the Universe Photo by Ashlee Best, © Discovery Institute (CC BY-SA 4.0) Senior Fellow at Discovery, Senior Research Fellow at Heritage FoundationJay W. Richards, Ph.D., is the Director of the DeVos Center and William E. Simon Senior Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, and a Senior Fellow at Discovery Institute. Richards is author or editor of more than a dozen books, including the New York Times bestsellers Infiltrated (2013) and Indivisible (2012); The Human Advantage ; Money, Greed, and God , winner of a 2010 Templeton Enterprise Award; The Hobbit Party with Jonathan Witt; The Privileged Planet with Guillermo Gonzalez, coming out in a second edition in 2024; The Price of Panic: How the Tyranny of Experts Turned a Pandemic Into a Catastrophe with Douglas Axe and William Briggs; and Eat, Fast, Feast . His most recent book, with James Robison, is Fight the Good Fight: How an Alliance of Faith and Reason Can Win the Culture War . Share
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