THE PRIVILEGED PLANET: HOW OUR PLACE IN THE COSMOS IS DESIGNED FOR DISCOVERY By Guillermo Gonzales and Jay W. Richards Regnery, $27.95, 444 pages, illus. REVIEWED BY PHILIP GOLD Albert Einstein once ...

Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts Goes Big and Goes Winslow Homer in a Splendid Show A Catfight in a Snake Pit in Philly’s Art Museum NRPLUS Conference Call with Meir Soloveichik and Rich Lowry Dracula ...

DESPITE A STELLAR RESEARCH RECORD, Iowa State University astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez is being forced out of his job for the expression–outside the classroom–of an inconvenient personal belief. In ...

The June 3 editorial "Dissing Darwin" defended the Smithsonian's decision to drop its co-sponsorship of "The Privileged Planet," a film exploring the ways Earth and the cosmos are fine-tuned for life ...

Under fire, Smithsonian disavows presentation on Intelligent Design. In late May, 200 attractive Earth-shaped invitations landed quietly in mailboxes across North America. They announced, “The ...

“Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark,” wrote astronomer Carl Sagan in Pale Blue Dot (Random House, 1994). Reflecting on the image of Earth sent back from the Voyager 1 ...

"The requirements for producing a total eclipse of the sun are a luminous body, in our case, the sun, an eclipsing body, in our case, the moon, and then an observer platform, in our case, the surface ...

This 60-minute video documentary explores the conditions on Earth that allow for intelligent life and also make it a strangely well suited place for viewing and analyzing the universe.