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James Tour
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Tour-Cronin Debate: Does Charisma Carry the Day?

Was Tour overly aggressive at the roundtable? Having watched and then re-watched the event, I don’t think that was at all the case. Read More ›
canary
Image: A canary, Serinus canaria, by John Gerrard Keulemans, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Anti-Hate Group, Canary Mission, Exposes “Science Educator” Professor Dave

The idea that Jews, alone among indigenous peoples, have no right to defend themselves on their land, is at once anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. Read More ›
Lee Cronin
Photo: Lee Cronin, via YouTube (screenshot).

Another War of Words: Jim Tour and Lee Cronin at Harvard

Tour didn’t shout. He didn’t call anyone an “idiot.” He never called Cronin a “bad chemist.” And Tour’s scientific challenges were entirely reasonable. Read More ›
Seattle waterfront
Photo: Seattle waterfront, by Ron Clausen, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Stepping in It: An Alternative to the Academic Wasteland

I walked out onto the sidewalk, enjoying the salty mist and the majestic Olympic Mountains. Then I looked down. Read More ›
Lee Cronin
Photo: Lee Cronin, via YouTube (screenshot).

An Outstanding Year for Intelligent Design 

I saw on multiple occasions the impact the truth about design can make in individual lives. Recently at U.C. Berkeley, I spoke about the evidence for a Creator. Read More ›
James Tour
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Cronin-Tour at Harvard: How Researchers Smuggle Design into Their Theories

Cronin presented his Assembly Theory as a framework for understanding life’s origin. I believe he is correct but not in the way he intends. Read More ›
Lee Cronin
Photo: Lee Cronin, via YouTube (screenshot).

A Few Thoughts on the Cronin-Tour Debate

Under the theory of an unguided process of chemical and biological evolution, should a threshold of complexity, clearly identifying life, be expected? Read More ›
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 ›
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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