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"You can go to a website. It's Holy Land dot Israel. Dot travel. We recommend that you go to Holy Land dot Israel dot travel. It will reinvigorate your faith. I think most of us need that in more ways than one. But that's something you can do that would be fun and beautiful. Another thing you can do that would be fun and beautiful is you can help us out in our campaign with food for the poor. There are starving kids who depend genuinely on your generosity. We do a campaign once a year. And this is sort of a big deal because most of us, even going through hard times are relatively blessed, there are kids and families in Central America. That's where food for the poor is focused on right now. In Central America, that they're starving. We do this campaign because we believe it is our job to do what we can for folks who are suffering like this. And it's just an unmitigated good. It's a beautiful thing. The only question is how, where that's why we teed it up for you. Food for the poor. There's reputable as it gets to an amazing Christian organization. There's a number of ways you can give, and I hope everyone listening will feel compelled to do something a little thing, whatever you can do. A few dollars helps. If you can give $72, that feeds two children for an entire year. This is how food for the poor leverages our funds. That's why I'm pushing everyone to give something because they leverage it so far that it's amazing. I want to hear food for the poor's CEO Ed Rainey. We have a clip. Let's play that. If we work in 20 countries in the Caribbean and Latin America and people who have no other resources, except the incredible generosity of typically Americans who time and time again, really just give from the bottom of their heart and through their love for thy neighbor. And so this is a faith based organization. And through our church networks and all these countries, we're able to get the aid to where it needs to be..
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"I've been in North Carolina Albin. Yes, often where I am. If you ever want to know, I'm in North Carolina. I spoke last night, I spoke on my book is atheism dead. Normally I'm speaking on a letter to the American church, wherever I go, I'm speaking led to the American church. The last night I spoke on is atheism dead. And I got two things to say. Several people came up to me in the book signing line and said, thank you for putting this in your newsletter because I get your newsletter. I'm here tonight. I drove from an hour or two away. Amazing. So if you're not signed up for my newsletter, Eric my taxes dot com. I'm traveling all around the country. We try to keep you updated, Socrates in the city events, wherever I'm going to be, please sign up for my newsletter. And speaking of his atheism dead because I don't get to talk about that as often. So last night I'm talking about the archeology chapters in there. And I keep saying to the crowds that I'm talking about, I can't wait to go back to Israel, writing this book just made me flip out over wanting to get back to actually see what I'm writing about in the book as atheism dead. So I've mentioned a few times I'm going to Israel next year, at least once, at least once. I may have to go back twice because we want to film a TV streaming TV series based on his atheism dead, in which case I'm going to have to go to the sites and film it and whatever. But anyway, if you're interested in going to Israel and why wouldn't you be? Of all the places you could visit where Jesus walked, that would be the one. You can go to a website. It's Holy Land dot Israel. Dot travel. We recommend that you go to Holy Land dot Israel dot travel. It will reinvigorate your faith. I think most of us need that in more ways than one. But that's something you can do that would be fun and beautiful. Another thing you can do that would be fun and beautiful is you can help us out in our campaign with food for the poor. There are starving kids who depend genuinely on your generosity. We do a campaign once a year. And this is sort of a big deal because most of us, even going through hard times are relatively blessed, there are kids and families in Central America. That's where food for the poor is focused on right now. In Central America, that they're starving. We do this campaign because we believe it is our job to do what we can for folks who are suffering like this. And it's just an unmitigated good. It's a beautiful thing. The only question is how, where that's why we teed it up for you. Food for the poor. There's reputable as it gets to an amazing Christian organization. There's a number of ways you can give, and I hope everyone listening will feel compelled to do something a little thing, whatever you can do, a few dollars helps. If you can give $72, that feeds two children for an entire year. This is how food for the poor leverages our funds. That's why I'm pushing everyone to give something because they leverage it so far that it's amazing. I want to hear food for the poor's CEO at Rainey. We have a clip. Let's play that. If we work in 20 countries in the Caribbean and Latin America and people who have no other resources, except the incredible generosity of typically Americans who time and time again, really just give from the bottom of their heart and through their love for their neighbor. And so this is a faith based organization. And through our church networks and all these countries, we're able to get the aid to where it needs to be..
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James Tour and Eric Discuss the 'Primordial Soup Model'
"I ended up writing my book is atheism dead is because when we had that conversation about the origin of life, I was so astonished, I thought nobody talks about this. So let's talk about this. In the restaurant in Houston, New York. No, no, no. This is when we were with my former friend Elizabeth Blake Moore. You started explaining to me because I think all of us in high school were forced. It was on the test. It was always on the test. How did life begin? So what is the standard model since 1952 when people say, you know, to high school students, the costumes, how life began? What do they say? It's not only the standard model high school students, the standard model to college students and standard model to graduate students. It's in all of their textbooks. And from middle school through graduate school. And it is the primordial soup model. There is a pond. There's a body of water, and there are molecules in that body of water. There are some lightning strikes, and the molecules start coming together, and then they assemble into cells. Those cells start coming together, and you get little creatures that start swimming around in that pond. And then those creatures end up coming out of the pond and start populating the earth. That's the primordial model. That's what's taught.
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"james tour" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Well, okay, so you're on YouTube now. You're putting this stuff out there. How long have you been putting these things out there? And where do you think this might go? Over COVID because there wasn't traveling as much. I did a series, a 13 part series on origin of life. And so COVID was bad for the community. Have you heard of black communities really bad? Very bad. A lot more time on my hands. Oh, that's very bad. And it was like 13 or 14 different parts, but now I have the click once, you can just click and listen for 9 hours straight. So if you're ever suffering from insomnia, just click and you'll be okay. But I explain the problems with origin of life from the beginning. Now I'm coming out. And this came because somebody attacked me. Again, I was minding my own business. And he came out with a video and he says, Jim tour is clueless on this and here's how life formed. And it was so ridiculous that I had to come out. It took me 9 hours of video to show how wrong this person was, because a lie is very easy to tell the truth and to explain it is really detailed. Then he came out with a two part video saying, I had it all wrong again. So now I'm coming out with two series on this. The first series is just about to come out and it's on the experts. So he brought on some so called experts. Two, he brought a three experts two of them knew that they were being brought on. One of them didn't even know it. He just took one of the guys videos and stuck it in as if he was and I know this because that so called expert is a friend of mine and told me he said, what do you mean I'm on a video one? He had no idea. So anyway, all of that will be exposed, but now I can go after the quote unquote scientific experts and their data. They came after me, they said things about me in a social medium, I'm going to use a social media to just put it right back at them. So now you're too far. I think they made a real mistake when they said they made a real mistake. And what I said, whoever goes on this guy's YouTube channel and talks about origin of life, I'm going to go right after your work. I'm going right after your work. And every paper that he cites, I will go right after that paper. These origin of life people are going to hope that this guy never uses their papers in his evidence for origin of life because I'm going right and so this is what I'm doing. And it really is the best medium. It is, it gets out, you get thousands and thousands of views so quickly. And it's an amazing medium and you hit large numbers of people all over the world. And so it has real impact. You know, I read all these articles. Nobody ever reads them. Well, at 700 articles, nobody's ever read. Well, right. Right. And in all seriousness, I mean, what started this off for me and made me write my book was the same impulse that people need to know the world needs to know what you've been sharing tonight and what you've shared with me because it doesn't get more fundamental than this. When you think about questions, you know, we're not talking about how did the moon form or how to, you know, that's fascinating. But it could not be more central than how did life come into being. And then to discover that the people telling us how are blowing smoke know that they're blowing smoke and that it can rather easily be shown, that's headline news. That's a big deal. That's a big deal. And people will say, well, maybe aliens brought it to Planet Earth. And I'm fine with that. That could be. But we're not talking about that. We're talking about origin of first life. Where did those aliens come from? How did their life be made? So let's see their papers. They're going after them. So it's origin of first life. We can't just, because that's what many people do. It's dumb enough to buy the aliens thing. You don't need to explain that to us. When people say, I thought this is what this meeting was about. We're all going to be. Well, it's funny because in my book I refer to who was it at Watson it was either Watson for this model. Yeah. But even that, the term panspermia, like you give it this fancy scientific name, it's like it's the stupidest thing ever. It's like, how did life come to earth? From some place else. And they go really. Yes, I call it panspermia. And you think, well, that really, that's like saying, who baked that K? Where did that cake come from? Who made that cake? And you say, well, no one here made it. I believe somebody carried it down the hall. From over there someplace. And you go, okay, can we go there and find out how they made the cake? Because we don't really care how it got here. We care how it got made. And so the idea that Nobel Prize winners would float these ideas like panspermia, it seems like you're making it up like a joke, actually. It seems amazing to me, and so my impulse, as I say, in writing about it. And I'm so glad you're making these videos is that the world needs to know this. This is not a little thing. This is a big deal thing. And I just want to say on behalf of Socrates in the city and the innumerable people who will watch this and your videos that doctor James tour on YouTube. DR James tour..
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"In a lab intentionally severed the spinal cord of the rat, which would paralyze it, right? Yes. Okay. And then with nano ribbon with these graphene ribbons or 1% solution of graphene nanoribbons in another polymer, we put that in the gap. And then what you do with the gap is you just open it and close it. So you got the spinal cord that's been cut into, and now you open it and close it. Just by doing that, just by that action, it gives you something called sheer flow where these long, thin structures of the graphene and ribbons will organize longitudinally. They'll organize in line with that spinal cord. It's like logs in a Lake. And don't interrupt me. Let me finish this. They understand logs in the Lake. When it goes down a river, the logs start orienting with the flow of the river. That's called shear flow. They all organized with the so just by opening and closing it organizes in line with the spinal cord. And then you just, I don't do the work. I mean, the people in the lab stitch the head back allow the spinal cord to re heal. And then it takes off from there. Okay, but the point of course is that because of the nature of graphene. Yes. It provides a kind of armature over which the nerves that have been severed can regrow together. Exactly. Because what happens is they will normally grow. But then they miss each other as they're growing, there's nothing to line them up, and they pass like ships in the night. And that's it. So what happens is these act as avenues upon which the neurons like to grow. They like to grow on graphene because graphene is conductive and they're sending out electrical signals so they enjoy a growing on graphene. And so the growing from each side and all of a sudden they now collide and when they collide, they refuse. And then they heal. That's it. So the idea is that with this technology, you will eventually be able to do something, you know, virtually unthinkable is that people who have been paralyzed because their spinal cords have been severed, this technology makes it possible to heal those folks. Well, that's certainly the hope because you never got to the key point that after two weeks the rat got up and started walking around. You forgot that part. And then after three weeks trying to not interrupt and thought you would get to it. After three weeks, it started running. And so the first two weeks, the was sitting on the bottom of the cage, moving its in sort of a scattered sort of way. But the brain was remapping the connections. The connections were not the same as they had been originally. So just like a child has to give a child for food, they stick it in their ear originally. But as they learn, they learn where to put that food. And the rat had to remap the connections. And the brain has the plasticity to remap the connections. Once we mapped and it learned which leg was which and then it can get up and just start walking again. So the hope is that injured spinal cords could be could be healed with a technology like this. It's not there yet, but that's the hope. But you did it with the rat. Correct. So previously, when people talk about somebody having their spinal cord severed, there's no way to get the nerves to grow back. This makes that a possibility. Correct. I'm not overstating the case. No. You're not overstating the case. You also said that, you know, if somebody has their optic nerve detached, they're instantly blind, because optic nerves can't grow back. They can't be reattached. I believe said that this graphic, this graphene, these nanoribbons could also help with that. Well, yes, I had a student working in a lab in Colorado who were the experts working on whole eye transplant. So the idea is if you, if you have a whole eye transplant, you have to join the optic nerve. The person has an optic nerve coming from the brain, and the other side is to the eye. So you've got to cut at that point. At some point along that and reconnect the optic nerve, and so the idea would be to have optic nerve reconnection through these as well. And that's never been done. It's never been done. So it would be a big deal. He's a real showman, isn't he? I just love the understated way you say it would be a big deal. The blind will see. It's going to happen. This is big stuff. It's big stuff. I just wanted to give people a taste of some of the stuff you're working in. It's really amazing. And I just encourage you to look up doctor tour. And you can read about all this. We have a TikTok video coming out of that rat walking again. Actually, it's just about to come out. A TikTok video? Yes. Don't applaud. I'm disgusted. So what really.
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"Because as we said in the beginning, you're doing really amazing work. So what got you in a way sidetracked unto this? What was it that got you involved in exposing this? So in around 2002 1001, I got sent a statement and I don't even remember who sent it to me. It was from the discovery institute. I didn't even know who they were at the time, but it was a statement that said something to the effect that we are skeptical that random mutation and natural selection can account for the diversity of life. Therefore, further research is warranted. That's it. Further research. And they said, could you agree with that? Yes, boom, return. That's it. I forgot about it. I find my name on a list of 700 scientists that have signed on to this. That list was then used in the Dover trials when people were trying to bring creation in creationism into public schools. That's when that list became popular, and it was called the dissent from darwinism list. And I'm on that list. I'm not ashamed. Yes, not dissent. Not right. Genealogical in the sense. I just can't remember who to send it to. I've seen fire and I've seen rain. I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end. Nothing could be more appropriate to ask at Socrates and city is, you know, what is life? That's what we're talking about. What is life, where did it come from? And then what can we know about it? Even if we don't have an answer, what can we know? And it sounds like, look, all of these scientists have been learning things over these 70 years. They've not been doing nothing. I think what we've learned is that we have absolutely no idea. And everything we've tried is an utter failure. That's what we've learned. Right. Yeah. But that's not nothing, right? Yeah, that's not nothing. This thing is a whole lot more complex than what we thought. Right. That's an understatement. I mean, that's a dramatic understatement. But the point is that if you're honest, you would say that's not nothing. That's something. But if you've already pre established a goal that's getting funded, and it's not in line with learning that we know nothing, then you have a problem. As some of these folks in the community seem to have..
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"He's unbelievable and what he has to say is unbelievably important. So here it is. What you did was you met. In other words, it's conceivable maybe that you can make molecules or manipulate molecules. But you made molecules where each molecule, I know, look, you did this 14, 15, 16 years ago. This is like no big deal to you. But you made molecules that each molecule is a car. Yes. So let's go back to that, describe molecules that are effectively cars. You were able to do this. Yes. So each molecule is one molecule, they're very small. You can part 50,000 of them across the diameter of the human hair. 50,000 of them on the Diane. Side to side. Yes. Parked. Since their cars. Yes. 50,000 of them across the diameter of a human here. Yes. Okay, so they're that small. Yes. But you were able to manipulate things so that they function as cars. How do you mean that? Okay, so they all have four wheels. They all have four axles. They have a chassis. And on that chassis is a motor. Okay, what kind of a motor? I mean, what do you mean? There's a motor. It is light activated. You shine a light and the motor spins at 3 million rotations per second. And what is the motor comprised of? Carbon hydrogen and sulfur. Is there a glove box? No? We can put one in. A teeny bite. A teeny weeny. We could. Anyway, I just wanted to give you all a sense. I mean, so imagine a single molecule that has four wheels under there. And it's one molecule. And you're telling me it's so small that it can fit across, that 50,000 of them would fit across a human hair. So that's the scale at which you are working. Yes. Keep it simple yes or no answers will do. So what are some of the other things? Tell us about graphene, because in the article by George diller, he talks about this recent development where you can make graphene very inexpensively, which is going to our lives. Yes. So graphene is a single atomic sheet of graphite, graphite is a chunk of material that's made up of sheets. If you take off one of those sheets, it is graphene, graphene is one atom thick. It's a sheet of carbon atoms that are arranged like chicken wire. One. Atom thick, yes. I mean, that's extraordinary. Yeah. And so, but this material when you put it into other things, it strengthens it, strengthens the other materials a lot. So you can put .01% into concrete and you only need, you can use 30% less concrete, just by putting it in a very small amount of this material, for example. And that's a big deal from an energy saving side to use 30% less because concrete is 8% of OCO two emissions in the world come from the making of concrete. And what we'd like to do actually is replace concrete so that because concrete has been around for 2500 years. And I think it's time it got retired. And we can use another material which would be much lighter weight and equal in strength or stronger. And then we can also just modify the material and use it for an airplane fuselage. It's all made out of carbon. These sheets of graphene. That's the hope. That's the hope. We're not there yet, but that's what it's projected toward. But it's not far from some of those episodes. Right. Well, you and I also, we met subsequently in New York City at the second avenue Delhi, which is not on second avenue. It's so famous that they moved it, but they still call it the second avenue Delhi. And you and I met there with the folks from Mitch from chosen people ministry. And Mitch glazer. And we had matzo ball soup, your Jewish I understand. Yes. But I had a salad. All of my. All right. So, but while we were there, you pulled out your phone and you showed me a video of what I was trying to eat my food, and you showed me a video of a white rat. Can you describe that in the technology, the graphene technology? Yeah, so that was with graphene nano ribbons, ribbons of graphene, not individual square or cylindrical sheets, but. Ribbons. And so what was done with the rat, and I told you earlier who process behind this, why we were going down that line. But the spinal cord was completely severed in two with a scalpel. And then we put one at the T 5. C 5 at the C 5. Yes, C 5. Did I mispronounce C? Yeah, because if you do, you said T I thought, oh, so you did this intentionally to remember that..
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What James Tour Can Do With Molecules Will Blow Your Mind
"You did was you met. In other words, it's conceivable maybe that you can make molecules or manipulate molecules. But you made molecules where each molecule, I know, look, you did this 14, 15, 16 years ago. This is like no big deal to you. But you made molecules that each molecule is a car. Yes. So let's go back to that, describe molecules that are effectively cars. You were able to do this. Yes. So each molecule is one molecule, they're very small. You can part 50,000 of them across the diameter of the human hair. 50,000 of them on the Diane. Side to side. Yes. Parked. Since their cars. Yes. 50,000 of them across the diameter of a human here. Yes. Okay, so they're that small. Yes. But you were able to manipulate things so that they function as cars. How do you mean that? Okay, so they all have four wheels. They all have four axles. They have a chassis. And on that chassis is a motor. Okay, what kind of a motor? I mean, what do you mean? There's a motor. It is light activated. You shine a light and the motor spins at 3 million rotations per second. And what is the motor comprised of? Carbon hydrogen and sulfur. Is there a glove box? No? We can put one in. A teeny bite. A teeny weeny. We could. Anyway, I just wanted to give you all a sense. I mean, so imagine a single molecule that has four wheels under there. And it's one molecule. And you're telling me it's so small that it can fit across, that 50,000 of them would fit across a human hair. So that's the scale at which you are working.
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"james tour" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"It's just dismaying. And again, I mean, I write about this in my book, but the idea is that most of us here, we have a high view of science and therefore a somewhat high view of scientists believing that they, it is about evidence. It is about the facts, it is about logic. It is about rationality, but when we're talking about this kind of thing, it seems to be about money and power. It doesn't seem to be about those things. You can go further with this than I feel comfortable going further with this because I don't feel comfortable putting upon them what they might be doing. But you are right in the sense that the public is so utterly confused and this issue. And this is a big issue. This is a big philosophical issue. Where did life come from? And when you say, you've got it, you'll have it in the lab for three to 5 years and the two people I mentioned are not the only people that have thrown out numbers like this that have all blown by. And that's why I keep saying all of those origin of life researchers will die of old age before they solve this. And all of their students will die of old age before this thing gets solved because I know we're so far away. And it is upsetting to the public. It's upsetting to students. I gave a talk recently at rice university on this subject, and that's on the YouTube channel there. And one student asked, so what about science where you make a hypothesis you investigate this and you find out that your hypothesis is not right and you modify your hypothesis, this way that we sort of portray the students the way science is done. Well, it turns out that science isn't always done that way. Science is controlled by powerful people by powerful interest groups by people who hold the purse strings. And powerful people can keep saying let's do this. Let's do this and it pushes these things along, even though it goes against what the hypothesis is seeming to tell us. Well, you see this over and over. My discussion with you about the origin of life and Miller urey and all that kind of kicked off my wanting to think about this and writing this book. But the same thing you see with the Big Bang hypothesis. I mean, there were people just kicking and screaming against the evidence, it was bothersome to them. The idea that the universe emerged literally out of nothing, 13.8 billion years ago. It was somehow repulsive. I mean, it was repulsive to Einstein. And it's normal, it seems to me for people to like some ideas and dislike some ideas. But when you're talking about scientists, you really expect the scientific community to just deal with the facts. I wish it were that way. Right. But it's dramatic to me, because it is dramatic. This is just one point where the facts, in my view, are not being followed. And I'm exposing it. And now it does not take a genius to expose this. If you are an organic chemist, this is obvious. So any time before I will release a video series on this topic, I have it vetted by colleagues of mine. And I watched the series. Did I get any of the science wrong? And once in a while, I said, well, you sell the nucleotide when you should have been nucleoside, so I'll put a little banner thing nucleoside, but none of the content was wrong. All of them said the content was correct. And in fact, what they said is, I mean, I can tell you one of them said to me, he thinks that these people working in the area of origin of life should be fired. They should lose their positions because then it became obvious to him. He said, well, why didn't he know this already? Because nobody reads origin of life papers, except people working in origin of life. And then they go out and they tell the press. And he said, well, why don't you read papers on it? Because nobody cares. You think it's already done. It's already solved. And the other thing is you have a busy life. I read a lot of papers about nanotechnology. I'm not going to read about origin of only reading about it now because I have to go after it. So you don't really scrutinize it and you don't know this, even by just reading their paper, you have to go into the experimental details. So you have to online, you have to click on the experimental details and you go and you see how they ran the experiments and you look at the actual data and you say, my goodness, this is garbage. This is garbage. Look at this spectrum. This is nonsense. What got you started?.
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"Ladies and gentlemen, doctor James tour. Thank you. He's really here. He's really here. Doctor tour, I'm so thrilled finally to get this chance to talk to you about some things that are really hard to process. I think I want to start maybe with the evening that my former friend Elizabeth blakemore introduced us. I'll never forget how you started in on me on this issue of the origin of life. It seemed like you had a bee in your bonnet. In fact, anybody who watches your videos knows you have many bees in your bonnet. And that's why I love you. You're delightful to listen to. But I mean, I want to talk to you about nanoscience, but can you just give us just a taste before we get into it of what you say to a stranger like me on the issue of the origin of life? I don't even remember our conversation. Well, you don't have to remember the conversation. I don't remember the conversation. Actually, I remember not being that impressed with you. No, but what I'm saying is that you kind of gave me the rundown of Miller urey and what we know today. Can you give us the paragraph version before we get into the deeper stuff? We're clueless on the origin of life. We don't know how to make the basic four classes of molecules that are needed for life. We've never people have never made them in a prebiotically relevant manner, which means that using chemistry that would have been available on an early earth when you didn't have all the big machines that we have now. How you could ever make those four classes of molecules. Okay, in a spirit filled church, I would say, and now can we get the interpretation? I thought I was, no, I know. I know you were dumbing it down for us groundlings. But not low enough, not low enough. Let me, I think that's why I'm here. I realize there's a reason I'm here. I guess before we get into that, because that's the real subject of our conversation. I want to talk to you initially about what you do as a nano scientist. I heard about your work. I guess maybe 15 years ago through some potential investors, they were talking about nanotechnology and some of what you were doing. When I just read what George gilder wrote about you, we're talking about really astonishing things. We know science has done astonishing things, but you now are doing some things in that world. Maybe talk just about the nano cars because that's struck my structure. Sure. These are single molecule nanocars. They have four wheels, independently rotating axles. They have a motor. You shine a light on it. Hold on hold on. You see, you already lost them. Trust me. We're talking about a single molecule. This man makes molecules and left. But I mean, you know, most of us don't make molecules at the office, right? So before we get into that, maybe explain the idea of when you say you make molecules, we know you don't have incredibly tiny tweezers. So can you, can you help people understand you make molecules in the lab? Molecules, they're pretty small. So is there a way you can help us understand how you do this or how you got into this? What you do is you make Avogadro's number at a time. You do 6 times ten to the 23rd at a time. You don't you just swallow ten to the 18th molecules of water, at least. I can tell. Yes. I could. But it tastes like ten to the 17th. So what I'm saying is that when you do this, we work with molecules in mass, just like when you drink water, you drink, don't just drink one molecule of water. You drink many, many of them. And so what we do is we do chemistry on groups of molecules that are in a round bottom flask. And there's solutions in there and we add different reagents. And then there's structures change based on the reagents that we had. There's structures change. And we plan this out, and then whatever doesn't make what we want, we separate out, and we take it and go to the next step. But again, to be clear, when we're talking about nanotechnology, you can not see a, can you see a single molecule? You can see a single molecule by scanning tunneling microscopy, but AFM you can, but that's not how you do chemistry. AFM. Atomic force microscopy. Okay, so you can see because you don't do chemistry on one at a time. Because it'd take a long time to get a bunch done. All right, so we're not going to make the mistakes. Suzanne, make a note of that. We're not going to we don't want to screw that up. But you see within the anger is worth the pain and before the lightning fades and you tell me why relief factor is so successful at lowering or eliminating pain. I'm often asked that question just the other night I was asked that question, well, the owners of relief factor tell me they believe our bodies were designed to heal. That's right, designed to heal, and I agree with them. And the doctors who formulated relief factor for them selected the four best ingredients, yes, 100% drug free ingredients, and each one of them helps your body deal with inflammation. Each of the four ingredients deals with inflammation from a different metabolic pathway. That's the point. So approaching from four different angles may be why so many people find such wonderful relief. If you've got back pain, shoulder, neck, hip, knee, or foot pain from exercise or just getting older, you should order the three week quick start discounted to only 1995 to see if it'll work for you. It has worked for about 70% of the half a million people who've tried it and have ordered.
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"Cell. It's a membrane, and there's a nucleus. So it's like a jelly donut. I mean, how complex could it be? What is it? But the more you look into it, the more you realize, oh my goodness. It's a factory. It is an entire, it's a fact. It's like a universe of complexity. Yes, yes. It's like flying over New York City at 30,000 feet and thinking, oh, that's interesting. Or going down on the street and seeing the infrastructure. And then under the streets and seeing the infrastructure and everywhere you look, there's this complexity that you never saw it. So in the early part of the 20th century, we couldn't see much of that complexity. It was just a bunch of protoplasm. Okay, very easy. Which is like a made up word, like jelly donut. In the beginning of the 20th century. In the beginning of the 20th century, and so that kind of gave people hope, like, well, we'll figure this out. Right. And then they begin discovering what is in the nucleus and what is a membrane. I mean, a membrane, even that word, you think, okay, membrane. Talk about the complexity of what is a memory. To bilayer membrane, what you have is you have two, you have two layers. And what's happened is the two layers are different. The outer membrane, which is the world in which it sees, is different than the inner membrane where the nucleus and the endoplasmic reticulum and all this DNA is working. It's different. And so every quote unquote protocell that people have made, they say, well, this is the beginnings of a cell. They've never had they've never had the inside different than the outside. So all their protocells are a bunch of nonsense. They could never work. There's a reason for that because you have to have what's called a proton gradient. I'm not going to explain it. I'm not going to ask you to explain it. So it's because the hydrogens, the hydrogen atoms that have lost an electron or called the proton. And they can move in and out, but they stay on one side more than the other, because the two sides are different. If the two sides are the same, you don't get that gradient. All the Proto cells are a bunch of garbage. They're experts in origin of life that say, it's just like making salad dressing. Which is crazy. It's just absolutely crazy because you have these little bubbles and salad dressing. First of all, those are not vesicles where you have an inner and an hour later in the middle, but there are ways to make vesicles, but it could never work. What you've made and you've called even your membrane without even worrying about this stuff in it, it could never work. That's just the membrane layer. Then you have all the stuff in it. People will say, all you need is a piece of RNA. That's a bunch of nonsense. It's been calculated all the different things you need to have a cell to work. Not only have they not made all of those things. They haven't even made one of them. It's a list of about 25 things. They haven't even made one of them. Not even what? Okay, so there's still asking us to believe that a lifeless universe through random sloshing made every single one of these things, and then assembled every single one of these things in this exquisite order that eventually ends up being what we call life. And let's be honest, we can't even define what life is, correct? That's correct. So if you have a cell cell that just dies, which is talking about little cell, a yeast cell, a very simple cell, not even human cell. It's a very simple cell. Just dies. Ask a scientist, what is it that we just lost? What is it that we just lost? I did this experiment once. I don't know if my daughter will remember. I had a bunch of scientists over for dinner. And I watched this. I said, I have a cell. It just died. What is it that we just lost? When I said, it's the ionic potentials. Yeah, there's a stomach on it. It's lost much more than ionic position. They could not even agree on what it was that we just lost, let alone how you define life. You can talk about the characteristics of life, characteristics of life. You can specify it. But what is the life? What is it that you just lost? Scientists can't even define that, let alone make it. And that's why I say that even if I gave you a cell, if I gave you a cell that just died, go ahead. Bring it back to life. In other words, you're saying, if a cell dies, every single one of the parts is there. Is there? In other words, I'll give you that. Yeah. Now make them work. Yes, because a resurrection should be easier than a bottom up synthesis. Everything's there. Everything all the parts are kind of in place. Now bring it back a lot. Can anybody do that? There's not a scientist in the right mind who will say that they can do that. Even origin of life, people say, would never say that they can do that. They won't say they can't do it. Because they won't admit it. But they'll just look at you. That's what they do. They just look at you. Is it, can you do it? I mean, just look at me. By not answering you, they're obviously saying something. Yes. Yes. I mean, I saw Steve benner at a meeting in banner. Yes. Christie benner. Steve banner is a big origin of life researcher. And he was asked, okay, say you had all these pieces. Could you assemble a cell? Well, you know, a career is for score years I'm three and a half score into this. One of these other people will do it. Like what kind of answer is that? Can the answer is that? That's called kicking the can down the road. Yeah, so the next day I challenged him on this. Oh, you just stared at me. They can't do it. They can't do it. Can you tell me? I'm the crazy one that's bucking against scientific consensus. I'm the one who's nefarious. They tell me I'm the fairest. Yes, which means evil wicked. Really? Yes. Can you define wicked and evil? Because I looked it up because I want to see what are the actual colors. Well, but I mean, again, I find, I find the whole thing funny. The idea that you're showing very clearly. I mean, the people who are in this world to most of us wouldn't make sense. But you're showing them clearly how they have nothing. It's like Houdini showing the trick of the guy at the seance or whatever. He's exposing your exposing exposing and closing. And you're infuriating them because they have entire careers and lives based on the fact that this is a thing and you're saying, no, it's not a thing, and I can prove it's not a thing. Tell me why relief factor is so successful at lowering or eliminating pain. I'm often asked that question just the other night I was asked that question, well, the owners of relief factor tell me they believe our bodies were designed to heal. That's right, designed to heal, and I agree with them. And the doctors who formulated relief factor for them selected the four best ingredients, yes, 100% drug free ingredients, and each one of them helps your body deal with inflammation. Each of the four ingredients deals with inflammation from a different metabolic pathway. That's the point. So approaching from four different angles may be why so many people find such wonderful relief. If you've got back pain, shoulder, neck, hip, knee, or foot pain from exercise or just getting older, you should order the three week quick start discounted to only 1995 to see if it'll work for you. It has worked for about 70% of the half a million people who've tried it and have ordered.
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"Tour, I'm so thrilled finally to get this chance to talk to you about some things that are really hard to process. I think I want to start maybe with the evening that my former friend Elizabeth blakemore introduced us. I'll never forget how you started in on me on this issue of the origin of life. It seemed like you had a bee in your bonnet. In fact, anybody who watches your videos knows you have many bees in your bonnet. And that's why I love you. You're delightful to listen to. But I mean, I want to talk to you about nanoscience, but can you just give us just a taste before we get into it of what you say to a stranger like me on the issue of the origin of life? I don't even remember our conversation. Well, you don't have to remember the conversation. I don't remember the conversation. Actually, I remember not being that impressed with you. No, but what I'm saying is that you kind of gave me the rundown of Miller urey and what we know today. Can you give us the paragraph version before we get into the deeper stuff? We're clueless on the origin of life. We don't know how to make the basic four classes of molecules that are needed for life. We've never people have never made them in a prebiotically relevant manner, which means that using chemistry that would have been available on an early earth when you didn't have all the big machines that we have now. How you could ever make those four classes of molecules.
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"Tour, George gilder writes, is a modern day Isaac Newton. Now, if you know George gilder is, you don't take that lightly. He is leading a scientific revolution at the smallest of scales with deep roots in chemistry and physics and grounded in carbon, the most fundamental life giving element in the universe. Tour is ranked today in a drastic underestimate as one of the top 50 most influential scientists in the world. He will soon prove to be the most influential. His innovations promise to defeat deadly viruses and superbugs overcome cancers and genetic disorders such as down syndrome, displace ineffective diagnostic technology, heal severed spinal cords. We'll talk about that. Clean dirty air and water trivialize excessive CO2, obviate all convention trash disposal, render rare earth materials abundant, retrieve unrecovered heavy materials, replace existing electrical wires with fabrics, a million times as conductive revolutionized construction materials, boost battery performance, eliminate toxic organics, re energize depleted soil, banished, rust, and in a wonderful parallel to Newton's demonstration of gold's immutability and counterfeiting of both your Gucci purse and its contents..
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"I know. From what little I have watched of your videos at DR James tour. On YouTube, that it would be like saying, I'm going to have a car in two years, right? And then you find out that I don't even have any idea how to make a wheel or a motor. In other words, to make a claim about a car when you don't know how to make a motor or you don't even have the beginnings of knowing how to make a single piston, how would you dare to talk about a car? It's even more than that, Eric. It's in the 1500s saying, I will be on the moon in two years. We've not gotten flight. We've not gotten space travel. We have no idea if there's no infrastructure for that. And if you had said that in 1500, you would get locked up. And that's what it's like. We can't make the four basic classes of chemicals. I'm not going to say their name. Four basic classes. Oh, different laughs. Tell us what are the four basic classes of chemicals? One is the young lady that you dated lipids. Lipids. All right? I said, I think I dated a lip, but I can't say for sure. Another is carbohydrates, which are your potatoes. But they're very important class of compounds. Those are the hardest ones to make. Another one is the amino acids and the proteins that are formed from amino acids and the other nucleic acids which are the DNA and the RNA, which are actually a sugar, a carbohydrate with a base on it, and a phosphate group. And so those are the four classes of molecules that we need. We can't even make those in prebiotically relevant manner. And any papers that publish and say we've made it in a prebiotically relevant manner are absolute junk and nonsense. And that's what I am exposing and of course it bothers the community. We don't want to bother the community. But again, I find this funny because as I've watched your videos, it's so obvious that they're not even to say somebody's not close. It's all degrees and it's all subjective. I mean, they're not in the same galaxy. Like we're talking about something when you talk about what the simplest life is. It's a level of complexity that is like almost incomprehensible and there's still claiming that it came together by itself through random sloshing in the prebiotic soup and you're calling on that. Yeah, so people have computed because they'll keep saying cells were much simpler back then than they are now. Before the war. Before the war. Yeah, everything was much simpler back then. Yeah, okay. But how simple I didn't know that? How simple, you know, when somebody says, you know, because I want to be clear that until I started looking into your stuff, you know, when you think of what is a.
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"You could also text the keyword Eric to 9 one 9 9 9. You'll get a link to make your life saving gift text Eric to 9 one 9 9 9, or to give you a gift by phone, call the toll free number 8 four four 8 6 three hope 8 four four 8 6 three hope. 8 four four 8 6 three hope. God bless you. How did life begin? Not human life. How did life begin? So it's a fundamental question. And so I got excited about it and I talked to doctor Tor more and more and more about it. And of course, I said, listen, this is so exciting. You need to write a book about it. But doctor tour is too busy doing actual science and writing peer reviewed papers to waste this time writing some crappy book. Which I'm personally insulted by that because I'm an author. And so I thought to myself, the more I learned about what he was doing, the more I thought, maybe I need to write about this. And so I did there are two or three chapters in my book as atheism dead, where I talk about this issue. Because it really is an extraordinary concept. And once I realized the depth of it, the more I thought, we've just got to kind of tell the world what doctor tour knows about this. Now, I say I put it in my book. I stole everything, of course, from doctor tour another scientist. I don't know that much about chemistry. I think I got as far as 11th grade chemistry. I did for a season. I knew Avogadro's number. I never met Avogadro, but I knew his number. I spoke with him on the phone. And then of course, like an idiot, I lost, I lost Avogadro's number. And we haven't spoken since. I feel what a fool, what a fool I've been, because he's a pretty important guy. I remember, I remember once in 11th grade calculating molality. Does anybody remember that? Yeah. I remember there was a brief moment where I understood molality and then I forgot all about it. I believe I once dated a lipid. I'm not sure. I don't know if that makes any sense. But I'm not exactly a chemist. So everything in my book obviously I take from doctor tour. To tell you a little bit about doctor tour, officially, and this is the least interesting. He's the TT and WF Chao Professor of chemistry at rice university. He's also Professor of materials science and nano engineering. But I found an article. Some of you are familiar with George gilder, The Economist and genius in his own right. And I thought if I read this to you, it will give you some sense of whom I have the privilege to converse with this evening. So this is from George the George gilder report. He writes just over a year ago, the world changed. History turned a corner a new age dawned so far, few have noticed. In due course of time, history will record that the new age was midwife in the laboratory of doctor James tour, Professor of chemistry, materials science and nanoengineering at rice university. A chemist with some 700 scholarly papers. If you understand what that means, your mind is blown. And 150 patent families to his credit..
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How Did Life Begin?
"Life begin? Not human life. How did life begin? So it's a fundamental question. And so I got excited about it and I talked to doctor Tor more and more and more about it. And of course, I said, listen, this is so exciting. You need to write a book about it. But doctor tour is too busy doing actual science and writing peer reviewed papers to waste this time writing some crappy book. Which I'm personally insulted by that because I'm an author. And so I thought to myself, the more I learned about what he was doing, the more I thought, maybe I need to write about this. And so I did there are two or three chapters in my book as atheism dead, where I talk about this issue. Because it really is an extraordinary concept. And once I realized the depth of it, the more I thought, we've just got to kind of tell the world what doctor tour knows about this. Now,
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"As it goes forward. Well, okay, but so then this brings up the biggest question. I mean, you describe this in detail, you've got lots of videos. By the way, you have a YouTube channel James tour. DR James tour. Okay, because they're going to be people watching this. You really want to get into this. And you do get into this. But what's so fascinating to me, what really kills me is that you know this world of nanoscience. And you know that they've been working on this 70 years and you know that not only haven't they moved the ball forward, but the goalposts are speeding away and you're calling them on it. In other words, you are saying, excuse me, I know what you know. And I know what you don't know. And I know you're blowing smoke. Because you have gone after some of these folks, because they're making claims that we've pretty much got this figured out. And you're saying, no. I'm saying no. And it's bothering the community. And community, what community? The origin of life community. There's a community. Yes. There's researchers that work in this area of origin of life, and they have meetings together, and they discuss the progress. And it doesn't go anywhere. Can you imagine doing that for 40 year career and you're further away from the goal than when you started 40 years ago? And so they keep saying that we're going to have life in league cronin said it in 2011 and hopefully make life in his lab within two years. He said this in 2011, 2011. He was not successful. Just doing the math, I'm thinking maybe that didn't maybe that didn't happen. Jack Shaw's tech at Harvard and Nobel Prize winner said in 2014, he'd have life in his lab, made within three to 5 years..
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"My favorite question is, are you going to finish that burger honey? And of course, the follow-up, what about the fries? I say honey because I'm currently married to my current wife. Today is our 26th wedding anniversary. Yes. And don't applaud. It's just we're just through the first 26 years. But I think we're going to make it. You know what I'm saying? I think we're going to make it. Suzanne knows me at my very worst. And for that, I resent her. But I also know her at her worst. And so, you know, we've got this stuff on each other. It's just such a crazy thing that it happened to be our 26th winning anniversary tonight, but we really have together been through thick and thin. And through also through greasy and stringy. I don't know if that's, yeah, 'cause it's been rough. Thick and thin. What does that mean? But. The secret to our success in marriage, and I don't mind saying this publicly, we have an open marriage. I have from the beginning remained open to the idea that Suzanne's relatives could have me killed. If I looked at another woman in the wrong way. And I've been open to that idea, all these years that it could all end with a blunt instrument, if I'm at a, that has really worked for us. And the most amazing thing I just want to say that is that when I say 26 years of marriage, I should be really clear since I'll be talking to a scientist, I want to be accurate. 26 years, I'm talking consecutive years. Do you understand what I'm saying? If you're a math person, yeah, I'm not, we're not skipping around, okay? This is one after the other after the other, with no exceptions. 26 years today and let me say to Suzanne, baby, you're the greatest. And she really is. I'm not just saying that. She really is. Socrates in the city is about, you know, when Socrates said that, it's not just that he said the unexamined life is not worth living. He also was always in pursuit of the truth. In other words, he had this idea as most Greeks like myself do that philosophizing is worth doing. It's worth thinking about things. But he was kind of relentless. And he got in trouble for seeking the truth as you inevitably will. Because we live in this fallen world, correct me if I'm wrong, but they kill Jesus. Yeah. And Socrates actually was also killed. And diogenes, you know, he was searching for an honest man. He was killed in a knife fight in downtown Athens. And you can laugh at that one. That's not true. But the point is that when we're talking about truth, you realize how serious it is, because oftentimes when you proceed the pursue the truth, whether in science, as we'll find tonight or in other things, there are people who don't like it. And I find that idea itself fascinating. So maybe we'll talk about that, I want to tell you how I came to know doctor tour, which really led me to write my book as atheism debt. It's kind of crazy. It was about four years ago. We have a dear friend, Elizabeth blakemore, who's right here sitting next to my current wife of 26 years. And Elizabeth, Elizabeth invited me to a dinner to meet a nano scientist named doctor James tour. And of course, being Greek, I know the prefix nano means 1 billion. That means really, really, really super tiny, right? And I confess that when I met him, I was surprised that it was about my size. And I thought, I don't understand, you know, and as I spoke to him, I understand that it was nanoscience really has nothing to do with the size of the scientist. I realized that. But. He, of course, is a super genius. I'll read some of his credits in a minute. And I find it ironic that our friend Elizabeth introduced us because Elizabeth, you know, kind of dull. She's got, he's got splits. We like to say splinters in the windmills of her mind. Is that not true, Elizabeth? Three bricks shy of a full load. How can I put it? How can I put it kindly? Her pilot light blew out. That's how you know, that's how you know you're my friend. If I make fun of you in public, okay? That's my love language. That's my love language. But in all seriousness, that evening, I just thought, oh, I'm just going to a dinner. And I met doctor kern, we got into a conversation, and somehow he starts talking about the concept of how life began, not what happens once you have life, because you can get into all kinds of arguments and conversations about the concept of you have life. And then it evolves in this direction, or God, directs it, or whatever, there's all these conversations about intelligence, but he wasn't talking about that. He was talking about the concept of you have no life and then suddenly being you have life and we're going to talk about that tonight..
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Eric my taxes. Today's program is a special airing of my Socrates in the city conversation with the amazing doctor James tour of rice university. He's unbelievable and what he has to say is unbelievably important. So here it is. Or many people argue about evolution and all that kind of stuff. But nobody ever talks about how you get life from non life. It's one thing to talk about. We have some life and how can it modify? How can a change? How does that happen? How do you go from a single cell to a lizard? But to talk about there's no life and then suddenly there's life. So scientists today would say, life appeared 4 billion years ago, we know that. Yes, it appeared immediately after the cooling of the earth. When I say immediately, sub 100 million, maybe 50 million years, which on a geological time scale is very, very rapidly. There's evidence for life immediately upon the cooling of the earth after the heavy bombardment when the earth was pelted with many meteorites that actually filled our surface of our planet with many different elements. So scientists, when you asked them how life began, they will tell you, yes, we know it began 4 billion years ago. Exactly, single celled life appeared. So you can agree with that, but then you say, right, it appeared, how did that happen? And you say that, I mean, at the end of the day, they always point us back to this 1952 experiment. And I remember you telling me that it's been 70 years since that experiment. And they were so hopeful. They thought we produced amino acids. We're on our way. Do they know what amino acids are? I mean, you're throwing out chemical names. Yeah. Yeah. Let me just say stuff. The building blocks of protein. But I remember you explaining this to me, and I remember thinking, you know what? I never think about this. So you said that. In those 70 years, the assumption was that they created amino acids and that they would then be able to do the next step in the next step in the next step. And they would begin to eventually figure out how you get single celled life. And so it's been 70 years, how are they doing on that? Not very well. Nobody, nobody has ever made a cell. Nobody has ever. So you get amino acids. It was an amazing experiment. So set up an experiment with a flask with a very simple compounds ammonia, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and oxygen, and you start putting in voltage pulses to simulate lightning strikes. And you get amino acids form. These amino acids were not handed. They did not have optical activity, meaning that our hands are non superimposable mirror images. If I put my right hand up to a mirror, I would see an image of my left hand. That's why my right hand does not fit into a left handed glove properly. They are non superimposable mirror images. You can not insert one into the other. The vast majority of molecules are like that in biological systems. They had the two handed they had both molecules mixed together. How you got one, which is what you need for life. Nobody knew. At that time, they didn't know that you really had to have only the one hand and not the other. So even Miller and urey thought it was going to come very quickly and then they've confessed it really didn't come very quickly. I mean, it never came. In every case, never came. Not only not only, I mean, we're so far from that that it's become harder to get than it was in 1952. It's become harder. See, that's the key. Yes, that's the key. Is that you said, I remember you saying to me, and see, I find this all funny, actually. This is so delightful to me that they're all excited because the idea is that science, if they remove the God hypothesis, they would say single celled life emerged by itself through random processes. And in 1952, they were able to create some amino acids and they just thought, we've got it. We're on our way. But what you're saying is that the more time passed, they were not able to move the ball forward. In fact, you said it's like they moved the ball backwards. The more you learn, the more you realize, we're not doing this. So the goal post got further away because what happens is the cell doesn't change, but the. We understand more about the complexity of the cell and all of a sudden we're like, oh, I'm going to have to build that too. Oh, I will have to build that too. So the complexity as we learn it is like, this is crazy. So the ball hasn't moved backward, but the goal post has moved further away. And so we were much further from the target than we were from the goalpost that we were in 1952. Because of the things that we have learned, which are amazing, just amazing. And so how does a cell do this? If we can't make a single cell, the cell does this because it takes all of this information when a cell divides it splits it between its two sides and then it pinches down in the middle. And so it keeps spreading this. We have no idea how to do that. No idea. But it's been 70 years. 70 years. They have been working on this. Hard. And you're telling me that, I mean, there's two pieces of information here. A, you're telling me they've been working on this puzzle of how you get life from non life. They've been working on it hard, day and night for 70 years. Okay. It actually even predated that. That was the big experiment that they thought they were right on the verb. That was like the kick-off. Yes. That they thought were on our way now. And but what you're saying is that the more we learn about the details of what's required to create the simplest life imaginable, which is a single cell. The more we've discovered how complex the cell is. So that's what you're saying, the goalpost is moving away. The ball is still here, but the goalpost is like flying across the universe. Yes. Yes, it's moving much faster than the ball is moving forward. The ball makes nanometer increments..
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John Zmirak and Eric Discuss Evidence of Intelligent Design
"Next level. It's unbelievable. The level of design that is obvious is just more and more shocking as time passes, we see more and more. And people like Michael denn are writing books. I mean, the evidence is coming out more and more and more and more. And what I find fascinating, I talked to James tour about it in a slightly different way when I'm in when I did the Socrates event recently. But the question is, what is the establishment scientific community? How are they dealing with this? They can't handle it. And they're sort of freaking out. Yes. The atheists out there are trying to sense fluorescent silence. And prevent people from even discussing the possibility of divine design in science platforms or even there being discernible design or teleology in nature. But I think it's also important that we address the self censorship and the self. Auto brainwashing that goes on on this subject. I can just tell you personally why I used to say that I was a Christian evolutionist. I believe the evolution and the Bible. And that they get direction child somehow somehow that I didn't really need to think about. And the Vatican said it was okay. But it really I thought it was my own resistance to thinking about intelligence. Was entirely based in kind of tribalism. I'm a Catholic, I did not want to be mistaken for some snake handler who goes to a theme park with his kids where Adam and Eve are writing dinosaurs. That was it. That was the extent of the intellectual process. John, excuse me. Excuse me, that what you just said is how most of us process things. That's
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Eric Talks About His Favorite Guest Speakers
"Watched the Andrew clavin premiere two nights ago. Did you did you question mark? Was he your favorite guest speaker of the season, Eric? Oh yeah, I hated the other guests. Definitely. Os Guinness, bottom of the list, pathetic. Clavin's number one, yes. No, that's not true. Actually, one of the things I have to say is it almost never happens that I do a Socrates in an event where I don't love the guest in advance. There's just been a few that have been, you know, a little offbeat, but boy, the four that we did this fall were killer. But each one in a very different way. And again, that's kind of the brand of Socrates in the city. We try, you know, it's kind of like this show, the show about everything. I like to be as broad as possible. So obviously the Andrew clavin won is on the nose talking about Jesus. The second one, which premieres this Tuesday, is James tour talking about science, nanoscience, which has implications about God, but it's really not about God. It's about science. The third one, David berlinski, Dave berlinsky is an atheist or an agnostic, he is so fascinating. I don't even know where to start. Like he's just a character, you just wait. You just wait.
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The Evidence for a God Is Piling up and It's Astonishing
"Hey there folks I'm talking to doctor Hugh Rossi's with reasons to believe my new book is atheism dead in large part owes its existence to friends like heroes and John Lennox and James tour Stephen Meyer and many others. And I wrote it in part to introduce them to you, because the evidence that has been piling up in recent years and decades for a designer for a God is simply astonishing and we need to understand it is astonishing, you should look into it. You should familiarize yourself with it. It is just a wonderful time to be alive when all this stuff comes out. You mentioned that comets are 85% water and that they are replacing the water that naturally evaporates from earth, not much does, but what does is replaced by comets and you're saying it's roughly a one to one ratio? Roughly one to one and keep in mind where we get struck by a lot of miniature comets. So they don't do any damage to us. They come into the atmosphere. They break up and distribute the water quite evenly over the earth. And then we get the asteroids which deliver valuable metals to us. But you're typically taciturn about how amazing this is. I mean, the idea that we lose water, but whoops, it's replaced by these heavenly snowballs that come in at just about the rate we need them to. That just seems crazy. I mean, that's an amazing thing. I don't think I've ever really processed
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No One Knows How Life Came Into Being From Non-Life
"A creepy dishonesty. That the scientific establishment now, of course, this is by no means all scientists. But a number of dedicated materialists or atheists are so afraid of looking at the evidence that they will come up with any crazy answer just to shut you up. So this idea who was it? I think it was Francis crick. I mean, this is one of the discoverers of DNA, okay? So in 1972, that's what did it. When he discovered DNA he said, wow, I just blew my own theories out of that no, but that's actually true. That's actually true that DNA is so complicated that you suddenly realize there's no way life can just, because of DNA coding thanks to Francis crick and Watson, it's so unbelievably complicated that science effectively has zero answers, which today they have no answers, right? But even in 1972, they knew they had no answers. So they asked him and he says, oh yeah, I think aliens brought it from some other place. And you think are you joking? This is like a junior high school student trying to blow smoke at the teacher because they didn't do the homework. And if you say aliens brought it, anybody says like, well, that's very nice, but I'm still asking you how was the life formed? Not who carried it here, not what suitcase or what spacecraft. We're asking, how did life come into being from non life? To this day, and this is why I find this stuff so funny. And James tour, by the way, I wrote this book in part because of him. Yes. No one knows. I mean no one knows how life came into being from non
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Why It's Worth Exploring 'The Big Bang'
"It's kind of funny, Steve. And I think we've talked about this privately, but in my book as atheism dead roughly have the same three things. And this was before I knew that you were putting it in this way. And the third one I put it differently, I kind of, you know, it's more about James tour and abiogenesis, but it's the same concept. And it's funny, though, that we're both logical or try to be. And these are three just astonishing arguments for God. There's just no way around it. And it's funny, I mean, I guess I'm glad to hear that you use these three because they struck me viscerally as the three arguments that I wanted to talk about. The Big Bang in some ways is a curious choice because I think a lot of people think, well, that's old hat. I don't think it is, at least, that's why I revisit it and I talk about it a little bit in that chapter. But why do you say the big why is it worth dealing with the Big Bang, something that presumably we've known about for a long time? Well, science and philosophy do intersect. And scientific discoveries can raise larger philosophical or worldview questions. In every world you have to answer the question, what is the thing or the entity or the process from which everything else came? And the default way of thinking about that from the late 19th century was that the universe is eternal and self existent that matter and energy play the role in a materialistic worldview that God plays in the theistic worldview. In other words, it's the thing from which everything else comes. And it's always been here, and therefore doesn't need an explanation. But one Princeton physicist Robert Dickey put it an infinitely old universe would relieve us of the need of explaining the origin of matter at any finite time in the past. But if the universe is finite, which is what all the evidence now points to. Then that raises a big question that materialism can't answer, which is where did the matter and the energy come from in the first place? At that beginning point. And this troubled Einstein, this troubled Arthur eddington, this troubled Fred hoyle, the great astrophysicist and physicist at the early part of the 20th century who were confronted with this evidence, all recognized that it posed a huge challenge to scientific materialism or scientific atheism or scientific naturalism, whatever you want to call it, the idea that matter and energy or the primary reality, not