James Tour is the famous chemist who debunks far-fetched origin of life claims. Steve Meyer is the author of Signature in the Cell and Darwin’s Doubt.
The Science & Faith Podcast – James Tour and Steve Meyer: Life’s Origin: Lab + Information = Mind
In this interview, Dr. James Tour and Dr. Stephen Meyer discuss science and faith, while getting into the details on the discovery of complex, sequence specific information required for life’s function and origin, and the required fine-tuned laboratory that we call our universe that must exist in order for assembly to occur.
People are taking reality seriously? What next, we wonder?
Hat tip: Philip Cunningham
Well, if there was ever any doubt that Intelligent Design is anything but jazzed up creationism, this interview proves that a rose by any other name is still a rose…
CD, really, trying to resurrect the old creationism in a cheap tuxedo canard. I suggest instead that we would do better to recognise that all worldviews embed first plausibles constituting their faith-points and build plausibility frameworks. So, we could equally point to the a priory materialism in an even cheaper lab coat that drives too much of establishment thought on origins, i.e. re labelled atheism. But more to the point, what we should focus is evidence and its significance. Here, start with alphanumeric, algorithmic, 4-state elements based digital code in the heart of the living cell, i.e. language and goal-directed processes. Then, we can ponder how the observed cosmos is multiply fine tuned in ways that support such C-chem, aqueous medium, smart polymer based life, starting with the abundance of the first four elements: H — stars etc, He gateway to periodic table beyond H, C & O water and organic chemistry, with N close enough, getting us to proteins etc. Those types of observations will always strongly point to design as best explanation, save for those enmeshed in materialistic a priorism. KF
Chuckdarwin, before bad mouthing James Tour with the old saw ‘creationism in a cheap tuxedo’, perhaps you would have done well to look at Dr. Tour’s resume first?
Here are his awards and honors from his resume:
Personally Chuckdarwin, I don’t think you are even worthy to tie Dr Tour’s shoelaces, but hey, you can prove me wrong and list all your awards and honors to prove to me that you are more than just a atheistic troll on the internet bad mouthing anyone, (no matter how qualified they may be to speak on a subject), who dares to question your atheistic Darwinian worldview.
ID is not creationism in a cheap tuxedo – but Neo-darwinism is just atheism in a fig leaf.
– Richard Dawkins books:
River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
A Devil’s Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design
Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide
The God Delusion
– Daniel Dennett books:
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life
Caught in the Pulpit: Leaving Belief Behind
– Michael Ruse books:
Darwinism as Religion: What Literature Tells Us about Evolution
Atheism: What Everyone Needs to Know
– PZ Myers book:
The Happy Atheist
Neo-darwinism has no Foresight, Ingenuity, and Guidance (FIG) – and once the FIG leaves, atheism is exposed.
Heartlander,
Thanks for that list. I never noticed how many of the titles of books by Darwinists have direct Theological underpinnings.
Which is just as well that they are so overt in their theological bias. It turns out that (bad) Theological argumentation, not experimentation, is crucial to Darwinian ‘science’:
In fact, (bad) theological argumentation, not experimentation, was crucial to Darwin’s book “Origin of Species’ itself,
As Paul Nelson noted, ” evolutionary biology is the most theologically entangled science going.”
Moreover, their blatant (misuse) of Theology is a direct contradiction to the Darwinian claim that science must toe ‘methodological naturalism’, (i.e. no Intelligence allowed), as a ground rule,
Thus, since Darwinists have no experimental evidence supporting their grandiose claims,
,, and yet, since Darwinian evolution is apparently vitally dependent of (bad) theological argumentation, then, by default, Darwinian evolution is, in reality, a religion, not a science.,,,
What a great podcast! Thanks for your comments, KF, BA77, HL. The overlap of authors writing popular books on Darwinism and atheism is remarkable.
-Q
Bornagain77@3
Hear, hear! It’s good to call out the empty bluster in such rantings.