The Story of Everything Dazzled Me: I Wasn’t Prepared

archival material, audience, Big Bang, biology, Brian Keating, Cambridge University, Charles Darwin, Darwin's Doubt, Discovery Institute, Douglas Axe, Eric Esau, Evolution, Faith & Science, filmmakers, films, Frank Tipler, Hollywood, intelligence, Intelligent Design, James Tour, John Lennox, materialism, Michael Behe, molecular machines, nano-technology, Nobel laureates, Peter Thiel, Poverty Inc., prizes, Return of the God Hypothesis, screener, Signature in the Cell, software, Stephen Meyer, storytelling, The Privileged Planet, The Story of Everything, thinkers, universe, William Dembski
I’ve worked on successful documentary films, including a 2014 feature-length film that won multiple prizes; I’m not easily impressed. Source
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The Living Nano-Factory: Darwinists Ignore the Ultimate Information Enigma

alien intelligence, alphabetic letters, amino acids, biology, coded instructions, Contact (movie), DNA, Ellie Arroway, Evolution, extraterrestrial life, Francis Crick, information, information enigma, intelligent agent, Intelligent Design, James Tour, James Watson, material universe, molecular biology, molecules, prime numbers, protein synthesis, Scientific community, Stephen Meyer, The Story of Everything
Information and orderly processes don’t happen by accident any more than a factory production line organizes itself out of unassembled constituent parts. Source
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Why Roman Catholicism Needs Intelligent Design

Archbishop Józef Mirosław Życiński, Bible, biological origins, Brown University, C. Everett Koop, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Catholic intellectuals, Darwinism, Edward Peltzer, Ernan McMullin, Evolution, Faith & Science, Fr. Martin Hilbert, Fr. Michael Chaberek, Fr. Richard Pendergast, Francis Schaeffer, Genesis, Intelligent Design, James Tour, Kenneth Miller, Kitzmiller v. Dover, Kurt Wise, Lumen Christi Institute, Macroevolution, Microevolution, Protestant circles, Protestants, Roe v. Wade, Roman Catholicism, Steve Greene, The Design Inference, University of Chicago, University of Notre Dame, Young Earth Creationists
Through high school and most of junior high, I attended Roman Catholic schools. I liked the discipline. I learned to buckle down on my studies. Source
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Yet Another Demonstration that Life’s Origin Required an Intelligent Agent

Cambridge, candor, chemical evolution, chemical processes, early Earth, Edoardo Gianni, England, experiments, intelligent agent, Intelligent Design, James Tour, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, nucleotide chains, nucleotides, origin of life, physical processes, primer, protocell, QT45, reagents, RNA, RNA replicator, RNA world, Rob Stadler, Science (journal), water
James Tour and Rob Stadler explain why an RNA even remotely similar to QT45 could never have formed on the early Earth. Source
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On Evolution, Here Is What We Can Believe with High Confidence

adenine, biochemists, biology, E. coli, Evolution, First Rule of Adaptive Evolution, fitness, fossil record, gene, gene transcription, genes, genetics, genotype, homology, information, James Tour, lactose, Michael Behe, natural selection, promoter, random mutations, regulatory control, researchers, Rice University, S. cerevisiae, tryptophan, W303, When Can I Trust What Scientists Say? (series), yeast, YouTube videos
In a pair of YouTube videos, Rice University chemist James Tour and I reviewed more than ten recent studies of experimental evolution. Source
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Michael Levin and the Philosophy of Intelligent Design

AI Overview, Archaeology, art, Bas van Fraassen, biology, ChatGPT, complex specified information, computation, computer science, Conservation of Information, control, cryptography, Darwinian theory, Discovery Institute, Ernest Nagel, experiment, fecundity, forensics, function, gnana yoga, Grok, Hinduism, ID 3.0 Research Program, Imre Lakatos, information, Intelligent Design, James Tour, James Woodward, Karl Popper, large language models, Larry Laudan, Law, Lex Fridman, living things, materialism, mathematics, mechanism, methodological naturalism, Michael Levin, Nancy Cartwright, naturalism, ontology, origin of life, patterns, Paul Feyerabend, philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Pierre Duhem, Plato, Platonic space, pseudoscience, Richard Dawkins, Sandra Mitchell, scientific theory, SETI, steganography, Stephen Meyer, testability, testing, thermostats, Thomas Kuhn, Tufts University, Willard Van Orman Quine
Levin is not a reflexive Darwinian materialist. Moreover, he touches on many themes that intelligent design theorists touch on. Source
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At COSM, Sharing Information Is Key to Solving Tech Problems

academic freedom, Andrew Mayne, Arizona, artificial inteligence, China, Computational Sciences, compute-in-memory, computer, COSM 2025, DRAM, flash graphene, flash tech, information, Intelligent Design, Interdimensional AI, James Tour, laptop, memory, NAND, Scottsdale, Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence, SETI, Soviet Union, Technology, Travis Langster, voltage
Information is key to innovation, and a familiar question intelligent design asks is “Where does information come from?”  Source
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A Fake Headline, and a Real One, About DNA

Advanced Science, amino acids, bases, BioEssays, biologists, Chemistry, chromosomes, DNA, domains, exons, gene transcripts, genetics, genome function, genome regulation, geometric code, geometry, Intelligent Design, introns, James Tour, Junk DNA, meteorite, non-B DNA, OSIRIS-REx, packing, packing domains, structural shape, topologically associating domains, Yahoo News
Did you get that? “Cake,” I believe, is supposed to mean life. So obviously on earth we have cake. Source
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New Article from James Tour Undermines a Pillar of Origin-of-Life Theories

amino acids, BioCosmos, biomolecules, building blocks, C. James, cell's, diffusion, diffusion coefficient, dipeptide, discovery time, Evolution, half-life, intelligent agent, Intelligent Design, James Tour, M. C. Parker, nucleotides, origin of life, peptide bond, physics, proteins, Rice University, RNA, statistical decay theory, thermodynamics, water
Proteins and RNA degrade at rates that render their spontaneous formation under natural, undirected conditions highly implausible. Source
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Evolution and Common-Sense Reasoning 

Children, College Physics, common science, computer simulation, computers, David Klinghoffer, Evolution, fundamental forces, humans, Intelligent Design, James Tour, materialistic science, Mathematical Intelligencer, mathematicians, Michael Kent, natural phenomena, Peter Urone, physics, Plato's Revenge, quantum mechanics, Rice University, Richard Sternberg, scientific evidence, scientific reasoning, Smart Phones, spaceships, supernatural, unintelligent
The equations of quantum mechanics do not describe exactly — even in theory — the effects of the fundamental forces on the fundamental particles of physics. Source
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