Tag: James Tour
Dallas Conference on Science & Faith, January 18-19: “Tear Down This Wall!”
One view, favored in the media and academia, says that faith stands separate from science, or that science has displaced faith.
Toward Self-Scrutiny in Science
Think about how this kind of reasoning relates to the intelligent design and evolution debate.
Heretic, Intelligent Design, and the Materialism of the Gaps
Consider an analogy. Imagine you have gone to visit the circular pattern of great stones on the Salisbury Plain in England known as Stonehenge.
Can the Rot of Naturalism Be Stopped? Relating Information to Matter and Energy Might Help
A New Yorker obit for naturalist atheist philosopher Jerry Fodor noted Fodor’s dismissal of the “natural selection” cult but, surprisingly, did not offer polite contempt.
James Tour and the Challenge to Theistic Evolution from Synthetic Chemistry
A chemist like Tour, a very distinguished one, knows from a career’s worth of lab work how painstakingly difficult it is to synthesize molecules you want.