The chances for life on this planet are 100 percent. I have almost no doubt about it. [1]
These words were spoken by Steven Vogt, an astronomer at the University of California in regards to his team’s ‘discovery’ of the exoplanet Gliese 581g. The announcement of this planet was widely reported due to the fact that it is supposedly resides in the ‘Goldilocks Zone’ where water could exist. For the evolutionists, this means that life could exist on the planet. However, further analysis of the data calls into question the existence of the planet. So why did Steven Vogt so prematurely state his own belief about the possibility of life on the planet? Is he motivated by pure scientific endeavor? Or is there some bias in his thinking? On this month’s episode, I discuss the discovery of the planet and some of the issues surrounding it, including the above words of Steven Vogt.
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[1] This Just In, http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/30/100-percent-chance-for-life-on-newly-found-planet/, accessed 1/29/11.
The star Gliese 581
