James Tour Talks Origin-of-Life Dealbreakers

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 3 April 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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On today’s ID the Future, distinguished synthetic organic chemist James Tour of Rice University explains why the goal of synthesizing life from non-life in conditions similar to those of the early Earth appears further away than ever. It’s not an illusion, he explains. The illusion was how close OOL researchers thought they were 50-70 years ago. They were never close, and the more we learn about how mind-bogglingly sophisticated even the simplest cells are, and how the complexity is essential for biological life, the more we realize just how far we are from constructing a plausible scenario for the mindless origin of the first life. Tour points out that even granting a great deal of intelligent design in the form Read More ›

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0:00.0	I. D. The Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design. Have chemists solved the origin of life? I'm Casey Luskin with ID the Future and today we have on the show with us Dr. Jim Tour. Dr. Tour needs no reduction for many of our listeners, but he is professor of material science
0:26.0	and nanone engineering at Rice University, an eminent scientist with hundreds of peer-reviewed publications.
0:31.6	He holds a PhD in synthetichetic, Organic, and Organitalic Chemistry from
0:35.9	Purdue University and did postdoctoral work at the University of Wisconsin at Stanford.
0:41.4	His website, Dr. James Tour, Dr. James Tour.com, has links to his many social media sites, including
0:48.0	his YouTube channel, which has a wealth of information and criticisms of the chemical origin of life.
0:53.4	So I highly encourage our listeners to go to dr James tour
0:57.3	dot com. So Dr tour it's a real pleasure to have you on the show with us today.
1:01.6	Thank you Casey appreciate that and And let me just clarify, my professional
1:06.4	website is J.M. like Mitchell, J.M. tour.com. And my social media channel is d r.
1:14.8	James tour dot org okay well thank you for clarifying that to go check those
1:20.3	out and be sure to find dr. Tours' YouTube channel. So the occasion for us
1:25.5	having you on ID the Future today is that you recently published a chapter in the
1:30.4	newly released book Science and Faith and Dialogue
1:33.0	published by the South African academic publisher Aiosis.
1:36.5	Now this book is open access,
1:38.5	but your chapter is therefore free to download.
1:40.5	And I encourage folks to do that.
1:42.0	It's titled, Our Present Proposals on the Chemical Evolutionary
1:45.8	Mechanisms accurately pointing towards the first life. It's a very nice summary of
1:51.0	your own research as well as curtain problems with the origin of life
1:54.4	theories. So I'd like to get into that, but first you are a synthetic chemist Dr. Tour. So I'd like to ask you,
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