“In this compelling series of lectures on abiogenesis, James Tour’s riposte slices through both hype and myths using science to critique “science”, demonstrating how experts in the field truly remain clueless on the origin of life.” We recommend that inveterate yay-hoos find someone else to attack.
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New vid: Scientists speak out on intelligent design
Scientists from a number of disciplines and cultures speak up.
James Tour and Brian Miller on thermodynamics and the origin of life
In this podcast, Dr. James Tour and Dr. Brian Miller discuss science and faith, including a presentation by Dr. Miller, showing his extensive expertise in the application of thermodynamics and information theory to the problem of the origin of life.
FYI: Footage of the Arecibo Observatory collapse
Courtesy National Science Foundation
Michael Behe doesn’t answer his critics?
From ENST: West was surprised to realize just how voluminous Behe’s record of answering critics actually is.
We have more than 18 trillion feet (6 trillion metres) of DNA
Imagine, all that information in there doesn’t weigh anything. But it matters.
Reminder: James Tour’s lecture at Andrew’s University, September 10 10:00 aM in Britain…
We are reminded that viewers can chat in the combox while the vid is playing.
Fine-tuning of the universe while you watch
Classics from William Lane Craig’s shop: The reasons why fine-tuning of the universe isn’t a question of whether? but how? And why?
John West: Science and scientism in the Age of COVID
David Klinghoffer: As Dr. West explains, for all the blessings of science, there are problems with saying, as some literally have done, “In Fauci we trust.”
Bruce Gordon on the Argument for God from the Incompleteness of Nature
Based on Arguments for God: The Plantinga Project Edited by Jerry L. Walls and Trent Dougherty.
New vid: What is information?
The fact that anyone is taking information seriously is a big step forward.
Researchers made films to help explain the spliceosome
A friend tells us that Michael Lynch of the Biodesign Institute of Arizona State) has argued that the spliceosome is so complex, because it just couldn’t help being that way. Here’s a question: How did such an explanation get to be called “science”?
Stephen Meyer interview with Ben Shapiro
Today [oops –> recent], here: Starts with Wikipedia’s “pseudoscience” accusation. And, Creationism [in a cheap tuxedo]. END PS: Here is the smoking gun letter by Sir Francis Crick to his son, March 19, 1953, i.e. as he informed his son about his breakthrough:
VIDEO: Digital unwrapping and reading of the En Gedi OT scroll
News has posted on this recent technological development. It is worth taking a couple of minutes to watch the video describing and imaging what was done using AI technologies: Fascinating, what 3-d scanning can do. It also of course corroborates the known result from the main Dead Sea Scroll finds, that the OT text was Read More…
Today is 9-11-01 + 18 years, let us remember
We owe a debt of honour to remember. So, in absence of the full 9 -hour CNN feed that seems to no longer be there, first NBC live: Here is a timeline: Let us remember, and let us remember that September 11, 2001 was the 318th anniversary of the lifting of the last, 1683 Ottoman Read More…