Guillermo Gonzalez

Guillermo Gonzalez is an astronomer and a professor at Iowa State University. He was denied tenure by the university in April, 2007, one of only three out of 66 professors to be denied tenure that year. Faculty members involved in the tenure process acknowledged that Gonzalez's pro-Intelligent Design viewpoints, including Gonzalez's authorship of the book The Privileged Planet, was a factor in the decision. Gonzalez was denied tenure despite the fact that he had had 68 peer-reviewed science articles published, 25 of which were written since he joined the university in 2001, and that his research had been mentioned in prestigious publications such as Scientific American.

Gonzalez's critics point out that in his 6 years at Iowa State, Gonzalez has received no grants other than a grant from the Discovery Institute which was for the purpose of writing his book, The Privileged Planet. Additionally, although he is published, most of the research discussed in his publications is from work done while he was a post-doctoral candidate prior to arriving at Iowa State. And perhaps most important in the decision not to grant tenure, in the past six years Gonzalez has failed to graduate a single PhD candidate.

Gonzalez was interviewed alongside fellow astronomer Jay Wesley Richards on the topic of evidence of the universe's design by Lee Strobel in Strobel's book The Case for a Creator.