12Feb 2024 by Post

For Darwin Day, Robert Shedinger Calls Darwin’s Bluff

Charles Darwin, Darwin Day, Darwinian racism, Darwinism, Darwin’s Bluff, demythologization, dogma, Evolution, history, history of science, Intelligent Design, Jeffrey Kripal, Luther College, On the Origin of Species, religion, rhetorical devices, Rice University, Richard Weikart, Robert Shedinger, scientific naturalism, Steve Fuller, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms, University of Warwick
Tucked away in Charles Darwin’s surviving papers is a lengthy manuscript he never finished. Source
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01Feb 2024 by Post

Evolution’s Demigods: Reviewing the Tour vs. Cronin Debate

Anthony Costello, Arizona State University, biologists, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, Center for Science and Culture, Chemistry, creative agency, debates, demigod, Evolution, Harvard University, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, James Tour, Kirkwood Center, Lee Cronin, Lenny Esposito, materialist science, mind-first view, natural selection, origin of life, Owen Anderson, Rice University, Stephen Dilley, Stephen Meyer, University of Glasgow
Says Brian Miller, “What a lot of origin-of-life people do is talk about natural selection as a demigod with creative agency." Source
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30Jan 2024 by Post

Debate Review: Jim Tour vs Lee Cronin at Harvard

Anthony Costello, Arizona State University, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, Center for Science and Culture, Chemistry, debates, Events, Evolution, god-of-the-gaps fallacy, Harvard University, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, James Tour, Kirkwood Center, Lee Cronin, Lenny Esposito, materialism-of-the-gaps fallacy, origin of life, Owen Anderson, Podcast, Rice University, Stephen Dilley, University of Glasgow
In 2021, chemist Dr. Lee Cronin declared publicly that “Origin of life research is a scam.” He later said he was only joking. Source
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12Jan 2024 by Post

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

academia, ambulance, anti-Semitism, canary in the coal mine, Canary Mission, Casey Luskin, college campuses, Culture & Ethics, Dave Farina, evolutionists, free speech, Gaza, Hamas, Intelligent Design, interstate highways, Israel, Jews, Lee Cronin, Martin Luther King Jr., North America, October 7, Palestinians, Professor Dave, Professor Dave Explains, Rice University, science education, Seattle, Shani Louk, terrorism, Twitter, USA, X (platform), YouTube videos
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. Source
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17Nov 2023 by Post

I Just Want to Say One Word to You: Graphene

aluminum, Ariel Malik, Avadain, batteries, Bradley Larschan, cement, COSM 2023, Dustin Hoffman, electric vehicles, electronics, entrepreneurs, George Gilder, graphene, James Tour, Kevin Wyss, Medicine, mice, modernity, Nobel Prize, Physics, Earth & Space, plastics, Rice University, spinal cord, technological applications, The Graduate
Graphene was first characterized in 2004 when two researchers took graphite and exfoliated individual sheets of graphene using scotch tape. Source
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31Oct 2023 by Post

On Origin of Life, Chemist James Tour Has Successfully Called These Researchers’ Bluff

abiogenesis, amino acids, biological information, biology, cell, Chemistry, Dave Farina, David Klinghoffer, deadline, early Earth, enantiomerically pure, Evolution, experts, glucose, handedness, Intelligent Design, James Tour, materialism, monosaccharides, nucleotides, origin of life, polypeptides, polysaccharides, Rice University, RNA, sugars, Tova Forman, YouTubers
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. Source
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25Aug 2023 by Post

Origin of Life: James Tour’s Sensational 60-Day Challenge to Ten Top Researchers

Bruce Lipshutz, challenge, Clemens Richert, Dave Farina, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Jack Szostak, James Tour, John Sutherland, judges, Lee Cronin, Matthew Powner, Neal Devaraj, Nicholas Hud, origin of life, Professor Dave Explains, Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy, researchers, Rice University, Steve Benner, Twitter, YouTube videos
Of the ten, Lee Cronin at least is quite active on Twitter or X. I’m going to tweet this to him right now. You should too! Source
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19Jul 2023 by Post

Stephen Meyer, James Tour: The Origin-of-Life Hustle

abiogenesis, chemicals, Chemistry, chemists, domestic problems, early Earth, hustle, Intelligent Design, James Tour, Joe Rogan, Joe Rogan Experience, Life Sciences, News Media, origin of life, Politicians, Return of the God Hypothesis, Rice University, science media, Stephen Meyer
Researchers perform experiments using specially purchased chemical ingredients and assure the credulous science media that this has something relevant to say. Source
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29May 2023 by Post

Exposing Professor Dave’s Playground Tactics and Citation Bluffing Blitz

abiogenesis, authority, biology, Brian Miller, citation bluffing, Dave Farina, debates, DNA polymerase, Eric Anderson, Evolution, Gerald Joyce, ID The Future, James Tour, Life Sciences, ligation, Long Story Short, Nature Chemistry, origin of life, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, polymerization, Professor Dave, Professor Dave Explains, replication, Return of the God Hypothesis, ribozyme, Rice University, RNA, RNA enzyme, Robert Stadler, sarcasm, Stephen Meyer, Steve Benner, transcriptase, YouTube videos
It’s true that sometimes it can be hard to tell that serious problems remain unsolved until you drill down into the scientific details. Source
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