Tour and Miller Tackle Cells as Computers, Alien Life and More

Episode 1395 December 18, 2020 00:27:56
Tour and Miller Tackle Cells as Computers, Alien Life and More
Intelligent Design the Future
Tour and Miller Tackle Cells as Computers, Alien Life and More

Dec 18 2020 | 00:27:56

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Show Notes

Today’s ID the Future is Part 3 of a conversation between Rice University chemist/inventor James Tour and Brian Miller, research coordinator for Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. In this concluding portion of their conversation, Miller fields questions Tour pulls from his mailbag. They cover everything from how simple can a cell get and still survive and reproduce to questions of design detection, bouncing cosmologies, the possibility of alien life, and the similarities between computers and cells in how they process information. The interview is borrowed, with permission, from Tour’s Science and Faith podcast, available here.

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