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James Tour
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Watch It Now: Tour and Cronin at Harvard

Above all, major props to Lee Cronin for showing up at all. That took courage. He earns my admiration. Read More ›
Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace
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New Thoughts on Evolution: Views of Professor Alfred Russel Wallace, O.M., F.R.S.

"The scales on the wings of a moth," he said quietly, "have no explanation in Evolution. They belong to Beauty, and Beauty is a spiritual mystery." Read More ›
Michael-Denton
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Happy Thanksgiving! Here Are Michael Denton’s Top 3 Reasons for Optimism About ID

One reason, he says, is the “relentless” growth of the ID movement, in academia and around the world. This conversation is itself evidence on the latter point. Read More ›
James Tour
Photo: James Tour, via YouTube (screenshot).

James Tour and Lee Cronin to Discuss Origin of Life at Harvard Roundtable

Props to Professor Lee Cronin for agreeing to participate. Wish you could be a fly on the wall? Here's good news. Read More ›
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Dembski and Tour: Why Chance Doesn’t Have a Chance

Proponents of an evolutionary explanation for life and the universe credit natural processes with a seemingly unlimited amount of time and boundless creativity. Read More ›
Long Story Short
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New Long Story Short Video Examines Information and the Origin of Life

Does the required information for life come from purely natural processes, or from an intelligent mind?  Read More ›
Long Story Short
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Couldn’t Life’s Information Have Accumulated Gradually? No, and New Long Story Explains Why Not

It turns out there are five separate qualities to life and its information that make this comforting rationalization impossible to uphold. Read More ›
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On Origin of Life, Chemist James Tour Has Successfully Called These Researchers’ Bluff

Tour issued his challenge in reply to the false claims made by YouTubers, like Dave Farina, about how these hurdles to life’s origin had been fully addressed. Read More ›
Lee Cronin
Photo: Lee Cronin, by Alfienoakes, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

I’m Baffled by Lee Cronin, and I’m Not Alone

Do you know those prank mirror illusions where an object seems to be sitting in a dish ready to be picked up, but you reach for it and there’s nothing there? Read More ›
James Tour
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Photo: James Tour, in a scene from Science Uprising, via Discovery Institute.

Meyer, Tour: “Molecules Don’t Care About Life!”

Rice University chemist James Tour is still on a roll in showing up the empty boasts of origin-of-life researchers. Read More ›

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