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The Privileged Planet

the Search for Purpose in the Universe
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Jun 19, 2014naturalist rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
incorrectly cataloged in the 500s : Science, should be in the 200s : Religion & Mythology Based on the book: The Privileged Planet : How Our Place in the Cosmos is Designed for Discovery by Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay W. Richards Regnery Publishing, 2004, ISBN 0-89526-065-4 see: Wikipedia article on Jay Richards: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Richards and, Discovery Institute profile of Jay Richards: http://www.discovery.org/p/9and, Wikipedia article on Guillermo Gonzalez: ..... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillermo_Gonzalez_(astronomer) and, Discovery Institute profile of Guillermo Gonzales: http://www.discovery.org/p/33 and, Iowa State University tenure denial: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillermo_Gonzalez_(astronomer)#Reasons_for_denial and, “The Irony of Gonzalez’ New Job” By Ed Brayton, posted July 10, 2008 at Sb Science Blogs http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2008/07/10/the-irony-of-gonzalez-new-job/ and, “Gonzales Loses Iowa State Tenure Case” posted February 9, 2008 at Uncommon Liberty http://uncommonliberty.blogspot.ca/2008/02/gonzales-loses-iowa-state-tenure-case.html?m=0 and, “Affirmative Action for Intelligent Design: “Martyr” Gonzalez continues to make a fool of himself” posted at The Bad Idea Blog https://badidea.wordpress.com/2007/12/19/affirmative-action-for-intelligent-design-martyr-gonzalez-continues-to-make-a-fool-of-himself/ and, #155: Guillermo Gonzalez in the Encyclopedia of American Loons http://americanloons.blogspot.ca/2011/02/155-guillermo-gonzalez.html and related, Marcello Truzzi 1935-2003, professor of sociology at New College of Florida and later at Eastern Michigan University, founding co-chairman of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP), a founder of the Society for Scientific Exploration, and director for the Center for Scientific Anomalies Research. Truzzi was an investigator of various protosciences and pseudosciences and, as fellow CSICOP cofounder Paul Kurtz dubbed him "the skeptic's skeptic". He is credited with originating the oft-used phrase "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcello_Truzzi