The Privileged Planet

Dr. Jay Richard with the Discovery Institute in Seattle spoke Monday at Biola's Christian Apologetics Defending the Faith series.

Dr. Richards presented a quick and 'dirt' cumulative case argument for intelligent design. I though his argument was very interesting. To sum it up, his argument for intelligent design is "habitability correlates with measurability...The same narrow circumstances that allow us to exist also provides us with the best overall conditions for scientific discovery."

Earth's habitability allows us to pursue scientific discoveries, such as observations of a solar eclipse (this was the example Dr. Richards used).

There is a book and DVD out, which explains this hypothesis more in depth called The Privileged Planet. It sound like something I will have to check out.