Tag: Rice University
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.
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.
On Origin of Life, Synthetic Chemist James Tour Delivers Chastisement to Jeremy England
“[U]nder certain conditions, matter inexorably acquires the key physical attribute associated with life.” Oh, really, does it?
Hat Grab: Cells Take Extreme Measures to Rescue Their DNA
There’s a famous scene in an Indiana Jones movie where the hero barely makes it under a closing gate descending on him in an underground tunnel.