Tag: solar system
Local Fine-Tuning and Habitable Zones
In considering fine-tuning, physicists assume that the constants and initial conditions (and possibly the physical laws) could have been different.
New Study: The Milky Way Is Exceptional
“You might have to travel a half a billion light years from the Milky Way, past many, many galaxies, to find another cosmological wall with a galaxy like ours.”
Bijan Nemati on Another Big Space Telescope, and Our Privileged Planet
Nemati describes how the instrument his company is building for the telescope is designed to aid in the search for earth-like planets beyond our solar system.
Religious Intuition Can Lead to Scientific Discovery: The Cases of Copernicus and Ferguson
ID is not religion. But even if we were to concede falsely that it is, such a characterization is irrelevant to the question of whether it is true.
Search for Habitable Planets Is a Design Detection Exercise
The extent of habitable space within all space can serve as a determinant of the plausibility of naturalism vs intelligent design.