Tag: prebiotic chemistry

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James Tour

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February 1, 2023

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Academic Freedom, amino acids, carbohydrates, cell, cellular complexity, chemical evolution, DNA, Eric Metaxas, Harold Urey, homochirality, James Tour, life, lipids, membrane, Miller-Urey experiment, origin of life, origin-of-life mystery, philosophical materialism, prebiotic chemistry, protocells, protoplasm, research funding, RNA, self-reproduction, Stanley Miller, vesicles}

James Tour: The Goalposts are Racing Away from the Origin-of-Life Community

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February 1, 2023

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On today’s ID the Future distinguished nanoscientist James Tour explains to host Eric Metaxas why the origin-of-life community is further than ever from solving the mystery of life’s origin, and how the public has gotten the false impression that scientists can synthesize life in the lab. Tour explains that origin-of-life scientists aren’t even close to intelligently synthesizing life from non-life in the lab. The problem, Tour says, is that some leading origin-of-life researchers give the impression they are right on the cusp of solving the problem. Not so, Tour says. He offers the analogy of someone claiming, in the year 1500, that he has the know-how to build a ship to travel to the moon, when no one yet knows Read More ›

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James Tour

Date
January 30, 2023

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amino acids, chemical evolution, early Earth, Eric Metaxas, Evolution, graphene, James Tour, molecular cars, nanotechnology, origin of life, paralyzed rats, philosophical materialism, prebiotic chemistry, Rice University, severed spinal cords, simply life, Socrates in the City, spinal cord injuries, synthetic chemistry, synthetic organic chemistry, unexamined life}

James Tour Talks Nanotech at Socrates in the City

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January 30, 2023

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Today’s ID the Future features the first part of a conversation between James Tour and Socrates in the City host Eric Metaxas on Tour’s astonishing work in nanotechnology and on the topic “How Did Life Come into Being?” Tour is the T. T. and W. F. Chao Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Computer Science, and Professor of Materials Science and Nanoengineering at Rice University. He is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading nano-scientists. This event took place at the River Oaks Country Club in Houston, Texas, and is presented here with permission of Eric Metaxas. Here in Part 1, Tour explains some of the inventions coming out of Tour’s Rice University lab, including molecular cars and astonishing graphene Read More ›

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Brian Miller

Date
May 24, 2021

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abiogenesis, Brian Miller, building blocks of life, chemical evolution, Dave Farina, Duke University, entropy, James Tour, MIT, Natural Selection, origin of life, prebiotic chemistry, Professor Dave, Rice University, Richard Dawkins, self-organization, synthetic organic chemistry, The Blind Watchmaker}

Brian Miller Distills the YouTube Debate between Dave Farina and James Tour

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May 24, 2021

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On today’s ID the Future, host Eric Anderson and physicist Brian Miller, research director for Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, discuss a recent debate between YouTube science educator Dave Farina and Rice University synthetic organic chemist James Tour. Tour has argued that no one—not even the most elite of origin-of-life scientists–has a clue how life could have arisen through blind natural forces on the early earth. Farina created a YouTube response on his channel arguing that Tour is wrong and that origin-of-life researchers are well on their way to solving the mystery of life’s origin. Tour then responded in his own YouTube video series. Now Miller and Anderson boil it all down and argue that Tour is right Read More ›

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Brian Miller

Date
May 3, 2021

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abiogenesis, alkaline thermal vents, Biological Information, Brian Miller, cell membrane, DNA, early Earth, entropy, Evolution, Helen Hansma, Intelligent Design, interfering cross reactions, Jack Szostak, Jeremy England, lipid bilayer, mica hypothesis, mica sheets, Michael Russell, natural templating, Nick Lane, origin of life, polymerase, prebiotic chemistry, protocell, raw energy, RNA, RNA World hypothesis}

Brian Miller Talks Star-Crossed RNA Strands and the Origin of Life

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May 3, 2021

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On today’s ID the Future, physicist Brian Miller continues his conversation with host Eric Anderson. Here they explore more problems facing the idea that life began as strings of RNA. In their discussion of the RNA World Hypothesis and the origin of life generally, they touch on ideas advanced by Jeremy England, Jack Shostak, Nick Lane, Helen Hansma, and others. One of several big problems with the RNA-first hypothesis underscored by Miller and Anderson: For it to have even a slender chance of working, you need prebiotic Earth to generate not one but two information-rich RNA strands, and they somehow need to find each other before falling apart, and do so despite the fact that they aren’t looking for each Read More ›