
The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos is Designed for Discovery
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Todd Barsness
Is Earth merely an insignificant speck in a vast and meaningless universe? On the contrary: The Privileged Planet shows that this cherished assumption of materialism is dead wrong. In this provocative book, Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay W. Richards present a staggering array of evidence that exposes the hollowness of this modern dogma. They demonstrate that our planet is exquisitely fit not only to support life, but also to give us the best view of the universe, as if Earth were designed both for life and for scientific discovery. Readers are taken on a scientific odyssey from a history of tectonic plates, to the wonders of water and solar eclipses, to our location in the Milky Way, to the laws that govern the universe, and to the beginning of cosmic time. The Privileged Planet contains astounding findings that should lead any individual to reevaluate and even to reconsider our very purpose on what so many have dismissed as nothing more than an accident of cosmic evolution.
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Well said!
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What to say about the narrator? He's got a wonderfully intelligible voice, a smooth and consistent delivery, and I can understand every word he says. His narration seems to have no edits and no breaks in continuity. In that he's marvelous. On the flip side, it destroys the illusion when he clearly doesn't understand what he's reading. Today as I listened he kept talking about "eddies" in relationship to extra terrestrial civilizations. I kept wondering about these eddies until I figured out he meant "E.T.s". So I guess he's never heard of E.T.s. Two days ago as I was listening, he misread "causal" as "casual" at least six times in five sentences. I can cut him slack for not knowing how to pronounce Brahe (as in Tyco), but you'd think everybody has heard his name pronounced, too.
So, I guess my thinking is that the book is good enough you should really listen and the narration is tolerable if you're more tolerant than I am.
Marvelous evidence meets wonky narrator
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Is intelligent design the same as creationism? No, is the answer given. Is earth the product of an undirected process such as natural selection acting on random variations or the product of an intelligent cause?
I purchased the video after listening to the book, stunning and elaborate.
Amazing
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Outstanding book on a great topic
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Planet
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Foremost, this book supports our natural instinct to ask “why” and find meaning in our place and existence in this world. This world is governed by two Faiths. One is faith in the works of a Creator-Designer. Other is faith in Humanities rationalizations about the happenstance and circumstance of our existence.
This book exposes the depth and breadth and scope of “faith” proselytized and evangelized by God-skeptics whose allegiance is to human egocentrism. This book solidifies the ground upon which the scientifically literate, curious, rational, and open-minded are free to choose pursuit of a Faith that yields the most meaningful, eternal, hopeful, personal and human life-affirming outcome.
Book Designed for Discovery - You Are Special
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Thoroughly informative
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