Books by Guillermo Gonzalez
Intelligent Design
Books that present evidence for Intelligent Design
The Privileged Planet
Are we just an accident of cosmic evolution? Is Earth a “lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark” as the late Carl Sagan put it? Or is there more to the story? In this provocative book, Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay W. Richards marshal a staggering array of scientific evidence to counter the modern dogma that Earth is nothing more than the winner of a blind cosmic lottery. Amazon link.
The Farm at the Center of the Universe
Why did Isaac’s father have to die so young? Isaac’s older cousin Charlie—a science teacher—says he knows why. Nature is pitiless. There's no God. No afterlife. Just atoms in the void and the struggle for survival. Charlie says a week at their grandparents’ farm will prove it. But at the farm, both of them get more than they bargained for. And soon Isaac finds himself caught in a battle of wits between two men and facing a choice he alone can make.
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The Expanding Universe of the Farm
Isaac is back on the farm—but everything has changed.
A year after the summer that opened his eyes to the patterns hidden in nature, Isaac returns to his grandparents' farm carrying a grief he can barely name. His father is gone, and the questions that once felt like adventures now feel urgent. What makes us more than atoms? Can a machine ever truly know something? Is there a part of us that survives when everything else falls apart?
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Destined to Explore
Destined to Explore argues that humanity’s drive to journey outward is no accident, but the natural expression of a world uniquely fitted for life, discovery, and expansion. Tracing the long arc of exploration from the first migrations on foot to ocean voyaging, scientific instruments, rockets, and the threshold of the stars, Guillermo Gonzalez shows how Earth’s extraordinary endowment has made civilization—and exploration—possible in a way that goes far beyond mere survival.
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Astronomy
Textbook
Observational Astronomy, 2nd edition
The long-awaited second edition of this well-received textbook gives a thorough introduction to observational astronomy. Starting with the basics of positional astronomy and systems of time, it continues with charts and catalogs covering both historically important publications and modern electronic databases. The book builds on a fundamental discussion of the basics of light and the effects of the atmosphere on astronomical observations.
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