Tag: Rice University
Tour, Meyer on the Multiverse, and More
In this third of three episodes with Stephen Meyer, James Tour draws from questions sent in by listeners to his own podcast.
Tour to Meyer: Make Your Best Case for the Theory of Intelligent Design
James Tour and Stephen Meyer assess an exchange between two physicists about the origin of life, and Tour notes his hesitance about ID.
Tour, Meyer: Some Very Hard Problems Facing Origin-of-Life Research
The problems range from the extreme improbabilities associated with protein assembly, to what precisely has gone missing in the nanosecond when a cell dies.
James Tour: “Molecules Don’t Care About Life”
Blowing smoke is what science media and even scientists themselves do a great deal of the time when they talk about the origin of life.
Tour, Meyer: The Mystery of Life Itself
As Stephen Meyer puts it here, “When life leaves, we don’t exactly know what’s left, but we know something left and it’s not just the physical.”