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Guillermo Gonzalez (born 1963 in Havana, Cuba) is an astrophysicist, proponent of intelligent design, and an assistant professor at Ball State University, a public research university, in Muncie, Indiana. 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, which also promotes intelligent design. ==Education, work and academics== Gonzalez obtained a BS in 1987 in Physics & Astronomy from University of Arizona and his Ph. D. in Astronomy from the University of Washington in 1993 and has done post-doctoral work at the University of Texas, Austin and the University of Washington. He has received fellowships, grants and awards from NASA, the University of Washington, Sigma Xi, and the National Science Foundation.〔(Guillermo Gonzalez ) at the International Society for Complexity, Information, and Design. Accessed November 13, 2006〕 He introduced the Galactic Habitable Zone concept.〔(The Galactic Habitable Zone I. Galactic Chemical Evolution ), Guillermo Gonzalez, Donald Brownlee, Peter Ward, arXiv〕〔Robert Roy Britt, (Amid the Universe's Chaos, a Few Habitable Places ), Space.com, 28 May 2002〕 He currently teaches at Grove City College, an evangelical Christian school, and was previously an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Iowa State University until May 2008. Gonzalez was a regular contributor to ''Facts for Faith'' magazine produced by Reasons To Believe, an old earth creationist group.〔(The Measurability of the Universe––a Record of the Creator’s Design ) By Guillermo Gonzalez, Facts for Faith Issue 4, 2000.〕 In addition to his work for the Discovery Institute and International Society for Complexity, Information, and Design, he is a researcher for the Biologic Institute, which is funded by the institute for research into intelligent design. In 2004 he published ''The Privileged Planet'' and its accompanying video, which takes the arguments of the Rare Earth hypothesis and combines them with arguments that the Earth is in prime location for observing the universe. He then proposes that the Earth was intelligently designed. William H. Jefferys, a Professor of Astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin, reviewed the book writing "the little that is new in this book isn't interesting, and what is old is just old-hat creationism in a new, modern-looking astronomical costume." Co-author Jay Richards responds to such criticism with the following statement: "It has absolutely nothing to do with biological evolution. We are talking about the things that you need to produce a habitable planet, which is a prerequisite for life. It doesn't tell you anything about how life got here." A documentary based on the book was produced by the Discovery Institute.〔(Privileged Planet official webpage )〕 His primary research interest is studying radial velocity and transit techniques in extrasolar planets.〔 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Guillermo Gonzalez (astronomer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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