Professor Dave Explains vs Dr. James Tour | Are We Clueless About the Origin Of Life?

Debate: Are we clueless about the origin of life? Join us for an exciting debate between Dr. James Tour and Dave Farina on this topic.

Dr. James Tour, a world-renowned scientist and professor of chemistry at Rice University, arguing that current origin of life research demonstrates huge unsolved problems and hype in the field. Dave Farina, a prominent atheist and YouTuber, arguing for the theory of abiogenesis, the idea that life arose from non-living matter through natural processes. tourvsfarina.com

This in-person event occurred and was streamed live on Friday, May 19, 2023 in Keck Hall 100 at Rice University.

#abiogenesis
Read the email exchange leading up to the debate:
https://bit.ly/tour-farina-pre-debate...

0:00:00 - Countdown
0:00:13 - Welcome by Alex Lathem (MC)
0:02:40 - Introduction by Dr. Wayne Guida (Moderator)
0:06:15 - Gift from Dr. James Tour to Dave Farina
0:07:12 - Opening Statement - Dr. James Tour
0:18:10 - Opening Statement - Dave Farina
0:27:32 - Round 1, Question from Dr. James Tour
0:34:51 - Round 1, Question from Dave Farina
0:42:22 - Round 2, Question from Dr. James Tour
0:51:47 - Round 2, Question from Dave Farina
1:00:29 - Round 3, Question from Dr. James Tour
1:09:16 - Round 3, Question from Dave Farina
1:18:06 - Round 4, Question from Dr. James Tour
1:23:37 - Round 4, Question from Dave Farina
1:32:11 - Q1 (for Farina) "Did your cited literature on the formation of polypeptides include examples using unprotected amino acids functional with amino or carboxylic groups?"
1:33:56 - Q2 (for Tour) "Your current scientific hypothesis on Origin to Life, and, if it is God, how is that not 'God of the Gaps'?"
1:35:52 - Q3 (for both) "One thing you each admire about each other's scientific career?"
1:38:28 - Q4 (for Tour) "Why assume lysine and arginine and all 20 amino acids were present at origin of life? Couldn't life originate from just some of the amino acids?"
1:40:36 - Q5 (for Farina) "Your opinion on Tour yelling over you?"
1:41:09 - Q6 (for Tour) "How to set up experiment showing how ribozyme self replicates so we can measure whether 10 or 100 percent?"
1:42:27 - Q7 (for Tour) "Nature of your graduate student-advisor relationship. Do you treat your graduate student mentees in the same manner as Farina?"
1:44:03 - Q8 (for Farina) "Is rationality possible if ultimately all that exists are cells in our brains reacting chemically? How is rational thought possible in a naturalistic worldview?"
1:45:22 - Q9 (for Farina) "Do you believe in free will?"
1:46:30 - Q10 (for Farina) "Do you admit that Lipshutz's peptide bond formation actually didn't occur in water?"
1:47:28 - Q11 (for Tour) "Wouldn't evidence of nothing multicellular existing billions of years ago indicate that abiogenesis happened, since prior to that, nothing happened at all?"
1:48:54 - Q12 (for Tour) "Is it unlikely to you that there are some currently unknown non enzymatic processes that might yield favorable outcomes with RNA?"
1:51:37 - Q13 (for Tour) "Many of your followers believe that your criticism for the origin of life is evidence for God. Will you denounce this thinking?"
1:52:59 - Q14 (for Tour) Cosmology question
1:54:22 - Q15 (for Tour) "Why aren't you publishing your critiques in reputable journals?"
1:56:37 - Q16 (for both) "Are we clueless about the origin of life? (To Tour: Why are we clueless beyond a doubt? To Farina: Why are we 100% not clueless?)"
1:59:31 - Handshake
1:59:46 - Standing ovation

#abiogenesis #originoflife #debate

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