Tag: Privileged Planet
Royal Support for ID: UK Funds SETI Project
SETI has a new patron: the Astronomer Royal of Great Britain, Sir Martin Rees. Does this mean the British will finally use intelligent design to do scientific research?
Setting the Record Straight about Guillermo Gonzalez’s Denial of Tenure by Iowa State University
The real reasons Gonzalez did not get tenure at ISU were simple: discrimination and intolerance.
The Fine-Tuning of the Universe for Life Just Got Finer
Formed by the burning of helium in red giant stars, carbon and oxygen are two elements on which all life is predicated.
Check This Out: New Hubble “Extreme Deep Field”
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
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.