James Tour (continued)
The Eric Metaxas Show
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🗓️ 20 March 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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James Tour, world-famous nanoscientist, continues his discussion of the origins of life at a recent Socrates in the City event in Houston, Texas.
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| 0:45.2 | And now here's your Ralph Cramden of the Airways, Eric Matt, Texas. |
| 0:53.9 | Today's program is a special airing of my Socrates in the city conversation with the amazing Dr. James Tour of Rice |
| 0:56.1 | University. He's unbelievable and what he has to say is unbelievably important. So here it is. |
| 1:04.7 | Or many people argue about evolution and all that kind of stuff. But nobody ever talks about |
| 1:09.4 | how you get life from non-life. |
| 1:13.3 | It's one thing to talk about, we have some life, and how can it modify? How can it change? How does that happen? |
| 1:19.1 | How do you go from a single cell to a lizard? But to talk about there's no life and then suddenly there's life. |
| 1:25.9 | So scientists today would say life appeared |
| 1:29.4 | four billion years ago, we know that. Yes, it appeared immediately after the cooling of the earth. |
| 1:36.7 | When I see immediately, sub 100 million, maybe 50 million years, which on a geological time scale |
| 1:42.9 | is very, very rapidly. There's evidence for life |
| 1:46.9 | immediately upon the cooling of the earth after the heavy bombardment when the earth was |
| 1:52.1 | pelted with many meteorites that actually filled our surface of our planet with many different |
| 1:58.9 | elements. So scientists, when you ask them how life began, they will tell you, yes, we know it began |
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