Tag: Privileged Planet
Gliese 581g: A Black Eye for Believers in Habitable Earth-like Exoplanets
NASA released an image, an "artist’s conception," that made Gliese 581g look like quite the garden spot.
Telling Theists What They Think: Philosopher Versus Philosopher at the New York Times
It’s like some of these guys are conducting a disputation in their head against the ghost of childhood religion.
Cosmos Finale Takes One Last Shot at the “Delusion that We Have Some Privileged Position in the Universe”
It was a fitting end, in keeping with what we’ve seen already in the series.
Dennis Prager: "Every Natural and Physical Law Is Exquisitely Tuned to Produce Life, and Ultimately Man, on Earth"
There’s someone called Keith Dalton, aka "Mr. Deity," who appears in a series of self-made videos mocking religion.
Is Earth’s Apparent Design for Life Simply the "Most Severe Case of Observational Bias in the History of Science"?
Astrobiologist David Waltham claims that the only explanation we need to explain our infinite good fortune is anthropic selection or observer bias.