James Tour: Primordial Soup Bluffing Goes Right to the Top

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 22 May 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Today’s ID the Future from the vault features another installment in James Tour’s hard-hitting and evidence-based YouTube series on abiogenesis. Here, Dr. Tour, a world-leading synthetic organic chemist at Rice University, describes the early Earth primordial soup concept for the origin of first life (OOL) and shows why it’s simplistic, bogus, and doesn’t represent the current science on the issue. He also reviews survey data showing just how misinformed the public is about how far scientists have gotten in creating life in the lab. One critic of Tour protested that the simplistic primordial soup story might be found in highly simplified textbooks for sixth graders but isn’t peddled at higher levels. Tour provides evidence to the contrary.

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0:00.0	I. D. The Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:12.4	Misconceptions about misconceptions.
0:14.7	Hello I'm Tom Gilson and today on ID the future we hear another segment
0:20.0	in Dr. James Tours 13 session video series on the origin of life problem.
0:25.8	Widely regarded as one of the world's leading scientists, Dr. Tourser has spoken in the past
0:32.3	about misconceptions regarding the so-called
0:35.2	primordial soup from which frankly too many people think the first life
0:41.1	originated.
0:42.8	In this session, which we share here with his permission,
0:46.4	he addresses another scientist's misconception
0:49.7	about that very common misconception.
0:54.6	The video today will talk about the primordial soup and what's the layperson's understanding.
1:01.2	Okay, let me again stress why I'm doing these and I'll be past this in a moment so if you're just joining us for the first time now you know why I'm doing this series on A biogenesis
1:11.4	Dave Farina posted a video entitled elucidating James Tour, a defense of A biogenesis.
1:15.0	After watching that video, I was confused about almost every slide and statement that Dave Farinham presented.
1:25.3	There were numerous gross scientific inaccuracies in his claims in my opinion, and I think
1:30.7	in every slide.
1:33.0	Since others might be confused, I will use the Farina video with time stamps
1:38.0	as the launch point for this series of lectures.
1:40.3	So you'll see a little time stamp so it might say like 6.25. That means it's 6 minutes and 25 seconds in that video in that Farina video.
1:49.0	That's where I'm getting that quote from.
1:53.0	I'm thankful to Dave Farina in his attempts to teach the late person about scientific topics on his YouTube channel, Professor Dave explains.
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