Guillermo Gonzalez (astronomer)

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. As one of very few practicing scientists, he is of note among Intelligent Design proponents. His research is on studying late stages of stellar evolution using spectroscopy. He is a pioneer of the Galactic Habitable Zone concept.

He obtained a Ph.D. in Astronomy from the University of Washington in 1993.

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.

External links

• The Priviledged Planet Official Website
• Gonzalez on the Galactic Habitable Zone on Space.com
• U of Iowa professor Tara Smith's critical summary of a presentation by Gonzalez about Intelligent Design on The Panda's Thumb Weblog