On November 28, 2023, Lee Cronin and James Tour had a debate regarding the origin of life research (Harvard Cambridge Faculty Roundtable). Tour argued that Origin of Life research is a scam that has made absolutely no progress in understanding how non-living things could give rise to living things via mindless natural mechanisms, while Cronin…
I just finished watching three interesting discussions between Rob Stadler and James Tour comparing the potential and limits of Darwinian-style naturalistic evolution vs. what one should expect if intelligent design were required to explain the diversity between major kinds of living things (see videos below). Both of these scientists have a high degree of relevant…
Getting back to Creationism, I just have to recommend a very interesting and informative in-depth discussion of some of the fundamental reasons that the creationist perspective is the most rational, most scientific, and even the most mathematically sound, interpretation of the world and the universe in which we find ourselves. Dr. Anthony Bosman is currently…
James M. Tour is an American synthetic organic chemist, specializing in nanotechnology. Tour is the T. T. and W. F. Chao Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, and Professor of Computer Science at Rice University in Houston, Texas, United States. Dr. Tour is one of the world’s top synthetic organic chemists in…
James Tour is the T. T. and W. F. Chao Professor of Chemistry, as well as Professor of Computer Science and Professor of Materials Science and NanoEngineering at Rice University. He has over 590 research publications and over 100 patents. He states the following (beginning at 3:05 in the video linked below) in his March…