James Tour: A Flyover of the Challenges Facing Abiogenesis

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 19 May 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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To coincide with James Tour's highly anticipated debate with YouTuber Dave Farina, we pulled this gem out of the archive for your listening pleasure! On this episode of ID the Future, distinguished synthetic organic chemist Dr. James Tour of Rice University takes us back to the basics of origin of life studies. What is abiogenesis? How does it differ from evolution? How is life defined? What are the characteristics of life? What challenges do researchers face in trying to create life from non-life? Along the way, Tour provides a fast flyover of the many grave problems of blindly evolving the first living cell from prebiotic materials. If you enjoy this primer, watch more of Dr. Tour's Intro to Abiogenesis video series on YouTube.

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0:00.0	ID the future
0:05.0	future a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:12.0	Greetings I'm Tom Gilson. How hard really is the problem of life's first origin, assuming
0:18.4	no intelligent design guiding it? Very hard, says the highly celebrated synthetic chemist, Dr. James Tour. Dr.
0:26.9	Tour has developed a full 13 session video series on the origin of life problem and he's posted it at his YouTube channel titled Dr James Tour.
0:37.0	Earlier on ID The Future, we presented the prologue to that series.
0:42.0	Today, with his permission permission we shared the first
0:44.5	actual session in that series Dr. Tours overview of the huge magnitude of the
0:50.6	problem.
0:51.6	But we'll be doing now this introduction to what is a biogenesis and how does that differ from evolution because many people don't know they're confused on this so let's go through that
1:03.6	well the reasons for this lecture just before we get started this lecture
1:07.1	series on a biogenesis let me just touch on this
1:10.1	day frina posted a video entitled,
1:12.7	Elucidating the Agenda of James Tour, a defense of A biogenesis.
1:17.2	You can see in the description box below for the link.
1:20.8	After watching that video, I was confused about almost every slide and statement
1:26.0	that Dave Farina presented. It really was. There were numerous gross scientific
1:32.4	inaccuracies, not just
1:34.0	inaccuracies, not just little things, big things, in his claims. In my opinion, it's my opinion.
1:39.5	Since others might likewise be confused, I'll use the Farina video with time stamps as the launch point for the
1:45.7	series of lectures. So you'll see a little number like it might say 10.23. That means at 10 minutes
1:51.9	and 23 seconds that's where that quote came from. And then, look, I'm
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