Guillermo Gonzalez (astronomer)

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Guillermo Gonzalez is an astrophysicist and assistant research professor at Iowa State University. He is a senior fellow of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, considered the hub of the Intelligent Design movement, and a fellow with the International Society for Complexity, Information and Design. He is notable as one of very few practicing scientists among Intelligent Design proponents. His primary research interest is studying the late stages of stellar evolution using spectroscopy, though he is also doing research on extrasolar planets.^[1] He is a pioneer of the Galactic Habitable Zone concept.

Gonzalez obtained his Ph.D. in Astronomy from the University of Washington in 1993 and has done post-doctoral work at the University of Texas, Austin and the University of Washington. He has received fellowships, grants and awards from NASA, the University of Washington, Sigma Xi, and the National Science Foundation.^[2]

[edit] Books

• The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos Is Designed for Discovery (with Jay Richards),
  Regnery Publishing, Inc., Washington D.C., March 2004, ISBN 0-89526-065-4

This book takes the arguments from the Rare Earth hypothesis and combines them with arguments that the Earth is in prime location for observing the universe to propose that the Earth was intelligently designed.

[edit] External links

• The Privileged Planet Official Website
• Gonzalez on the Galactic Habitable Zone on Space.com
• Faculty at Iowa State Department of Physics & Astronomy
• U of Iowa professor Tara Smith's critical summary of a presentation by Gonzalez about Intelligent Design on The Panda's Thumb Weblog
• Gonzalez's account of controversy on the ISU campus over The Privileged Planet

[edit] References

1. ^ Guillermo Gonzalez Iowa University faculty page. Accessed Nov. 13, 2006
2. ^ Guillermo Gonzalez at the International Society for Complexity, Information, and Design. Accessed Nov. 13, 2006