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The privileged planet : how our place in the cosmos is designed for discovery / Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay W. Richards

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Washington, DC : Regnery Pub. ; Lanham, MD : National Book Network [distributor], c2004Description: xv, 444 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0895260654 (acidfree paper)
  • 9780895260659 (acidfree paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • ARCH YNDC 523.2 G643P 22
Contents:
Section 1: Our local environment -- Wonderful eclipses -- At home on a data recorder -- Peering down -- Peering up -- The pale blue dot in relief -- Our helpful neighbors -- Section 2: The broader universe -- Star probes -- Our galactic habitat -- Our place in cosmic time -- A universe fine-tuned for life and discovery -- Section 3: Implications -- The revisionist history of the Copernican revolution -- The Copernican principle -- The anthropic disclaimer -- SETI and the unraveling of the Copernican principle -- A universe designed for discovery -- The skeptical rejoinder
Summary: Arguing that life may be rarer than some astronomers and philosophers have said, the author details the delicate balance of factors that make life possible on this planet and reveals the rarity of these conditions in the universe
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Archives Archives SAIACS Archives Room Yandell Collection ARCH YNDC 523.2 G643P (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan 064810

Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-416) and index

Section 1: Our local environment -- Wonderful eclipses -- At home on a data recorder -- Peering down -- Peering up -- The pale blue dot in relief -- Our helpful neighbors -- Section 2: The broader universe -- Star probes -- Our galactic habitat -- Our place in cosmic time -- A universe fine-tuned for life and discovery -- Section 3: Implications -- The revisionist history of the Copernican revolution -- The Copernican principle -- The anthropic disclaimer -- SETI and the unraveling of the Copernican principle -- A universe designed for discovery -- The skeptical rejoinder

Arguing that life may be rarer than some astronomers and philosophers have said, the author details the delicate balance of factors that make life possible on this planet and reveals the rarity of these conditions in the universe

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