James Tour and Stephen Meyer on the Origin of Life, Pt. 1

Episode 1355 September 14, 2020 00:17:19
James Tour and Stephen Meyer on the Origin of Life, Pt. 1
Intelligent Design the Future
James Tour and Stephen Meyer on the Origin of Life, Pt. 1

Sep 14 2020 | 00:17:19

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Show Notes

On this episode of ID the Future,  James M. Tour and Stephen C. Meyer begin a discussion about the hard problems facing researchers trying to discover how the first life could have come about naturalistically. Meyer is the director of the Center for Science and Culture; Tour is a world-renowned synthetic organic chemist with over 700 research publications and multiple major recognitions, including TheBestSchools.org naming him one of the 50 most influential scientists in the world today. Though he doesn’t sign on to ID theory, he says he’s sympathetic with the idea, and certainly not impressed with any naturalistic explanations for the origin of life. In this first of a three-part series, they explore problems ranging from the extreme improbabilities associated with protein assembly, to what precisely has gone missing in the nanosecond when a cell dies. The episode is excerpted from a longer interview Dr. Tour conducted with Meyer as part of his excellent new video series The Science & Faith Podcast: Follow the Evidence.

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