Starry Fight

COURTESY GUILLERMO GONZALEZ

Astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez has studied the universe and decided there's nobody here but us earthlings

Skeptic James Randi in his library, where intelligent design books are shelved under C for creationism

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• Discovery Institute
• Smithsonian Institution
• Religious Concepts
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Gonzalez has done his best to keep the controversy from his mother and sister in Hialeah. "I don't want them to know that my career is in danger," he explains. But privately he worries that the squabbles will jeopardize his chances of receiving tenure. He also puzzles over the firestorm his work has created. "I'm just a regular scientist who believes in God and has remained open to evidence of design in the universe," he says, his voice tinged with exasperation. "It's not like I'm some crazed Bible-thumping, fire-breathing creationist."