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 video below). Both of these scientists have a high degree of relevant…
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…