The Mystery of The Origin of Life

[@baberoot1998]

Dr. Tour...is the most honest, and unbiased scientist...I have ever seen. Granted he is a Christian...he doesn't employ that philosophy in his professional career, or work. He is fighting the good fight.

[@Apollos2.2]

Finally someone explaining what you really need to get Abiogenesis! (Life from non-life). WOW. The complexity is staggering. Reminds me of the old saying about a tornado going through the junkyard and building a functioning 747 passenger airplane. That probably doesn't even do it justice. I love it! "Nobody knows! Nobody has done it." Thank you, thank you Dr James Tour.

[@jamesstrawn6087]

What is most amazing is that the same basic argument can be made with even a 3-legged stool. Everything falls to pieces when you realize that every stage, every step (so-called) MUST be a justifiable endpoint. It is like saying you can only write a sentence where every proto-sentence is also a sensible utterance (and an improvement on the shorter preceding one). All of this has to be compared to the obvious: There is a better, simpler explanation, namely, intelligence.

[@Apollos2.2]

@Chris Watkins 8?? Hi Chris what's that?

[@cryxibus]

​@Michael T Sorry, I had my phone in my pocket while I was working and listening with my Bluetooth. None of those comments were intended.

[@tookymax]

I like what you said at 1:37:13 From John 7:17 , "as you do the will of God, you will understand the perfection of it." In his will, you will see clearly. Thank you James Tour for your work and inspiration.

[@JonandZingo]

Thanks Dr Tour.

[@2009adtommy]

You have touched lot of people. I distribute your videos all the time. Be encouraged brother! Thank you for likely the best defense I have ever read that combats these "scientific facts" with veracity.

[@melissacampanelli829]

Very well done Dr. Tour!

[@78LedHead]

Glad I found you (by way of End Times Productions). Excellent stuff. God bless you, sir.

[@batchingch6044]

After listening to you, these verses become so real : I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well. Psalms 139:14 NKJV

[@deep76waters]

Thank you for yet another great presentation Mr Tour ! Please keep them coming.

[@BibleResearchTools]

God bless you forever, Dr. Tour. Dan

[@emilyhooper3140]

"As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things." Your truths on the complexity and mystery of the origin of life are summed up in what this scripture more than likely meant in it's original text! You do not know how life began nor can you create life.

[@charlesmorris8791]

Thank you

[@TheG7thcapo]

Thank you Dr Tour. Praise God and may He bless you and family

[@kenthovindsecretary8129]

Shout out from Dinosaur Adventure Land! You are awesome! We love you! Rock on!

[@offcenterconcepthaus]

Outstanding -- the core of this is unassailable.

[@Johnged15]

This man respect God and the truth.

[@delicheres]

I love that Man !

[@martinlee465]

The scientific search for the Origin of life will eventually lead and stop at the door of God's house. Only those with humility and acceptance shall enter and see the true Origins.

[@lookup7055]

Beautiful family.

[@somenygaard]

It’s laughable that anyone would try and argue that accidental life is a possibility.

[@MarcelinhoTheRock]

What a great lecture, thanks doctor

[@geraldshearon7264]

You are much appreciated by those of us who fought the same battle in the past two generations. I learned from Henry Morris PhD Hydrology. Duane Gish was another. They started the Institute for Creation Research. They came to my church, but none at my backwater teacher's college were brave enough to battle their logic. Until Morris & Gish I thought no one believed in the 6 day creation anymore, but God had His 7000 left even back then. Now to see you & some others carrying on the work is great. Dont be ashamed of 6 day creation. God didnt give His Word to be only understood by geniuses. God's Word always works out to be true. Both to the genius & the avg man. He can find a way for the brain-damaged as well. I was quite surprised to find macroevolutionary theory as full of holes as swiss cheese, and completely unnecessary to me. The fraud of macroevolution helped me understand all men are significant liars, but God is true.

[@lawneymalbrough4309]

This scientist is a better Christian than I can hope to be and I'm only an amateur scientist.

[@HS-zk5nn]

excellent!

[@SnapdragonAtheist]

You can’t be serious 😒

[@HS-zk5nn]

@@SnapdragonAtheist "You can’t be serious 😒 " I am 🙂

[@Ab-abovetheFirmament]

I love the way he explains erroneous claims from abiogenesis scientists 😅.

[@iggyg1370]

So basically even if you could create life in the lab, you still would have to figure out how earth could create life by random chance.

[@rogerthornton8064]

To hopefully help in answering the last question, when Christ died he opened spirit prison to preach to those who didn't have previous chance to learn of his gospel..... God is justice is the highest definition of justice.

[@charlesco7413]

I like how they dont defend their apostles(scientists) or their bible(research papers) but instead attack our belief in Jesus and his truth of God.

[@robb6059]

"Once we admit that life comes only from life, it's entirely reasonable to suppose that all life originates from a common living source, the one Supreme Lord, known to the Muslims as Allah, to the Jews as Yahweh, to the Christians as Jehovah, and to the followers of the Vedas as krsna." Hare KRSNA.

[@GoodQuestionsLeadToGoodAnswers]

About the question on Neanderthal, some updated science. Many paleonthologists now say this was simply another human race. They weren't very different than us. May be our own race is the fruit of some genetic losses. May be Neanderthal was more like original man.

[@jayrobbinstacks4574]

Ask an actual biologist, not a religious conman.

[@jayrobbinstacks4574]

wtf is even that diatribe? Point is, if you want tour to give you answers, he can't. Thats why Farina destroyed him in that debate. Hes a conman@@GoodQuestionsLeadToGoodAnswers

[@GoodQuestionsLeadToGoodAnswers]

@@jayrobbinstacks4574 ​ Actually this information comes from totally secular paleontologists and is years old now. Some biologists are fan boys of early evolution narratives and aggregates bad scientific vulgarisation and hype of the past. Get up-to-date please. Things aren't this simple to boost bold claims.

[@weltschmerzistofthaufig2440]

@@GoodQuestionsLeadToGoodAnswers You are the one who is not up-to-date. Neanderthals are morphologically distinct from _Homo sapiens._

[@GoodQuestionsLeadToGoodAnswers]

@@weltschmerzistofthaufig2440 Yes they have distinct traits but they so close to us. Culturally they share many things with homo sapiens and there are proof that they coexisted a while with them. There are even some actual people that look much the same as neanderthal. Correct me if I 'm wrong but latest reconstitution of neanderthal mens exists in some museums dressed as modern men. At first look many people wouldn't notice much. Many paleontologists think that they intermixed with homo sapiens and their specific traits just disappeared through their descendants, starting to look more and more closer to homo sapiens. Their traits were an advantage for some specialists that would have given a better hearing and vision. For their culture they weren't only living in caverns. They cared for their disabled, had good art abilities, and mastered some advanced craftsmanship at the time sapiens were living. Burial practices existed among them, showing some signs of rekigion. Their characteristic traits probably got diluted by intermixing with homo sapiens. If you looked to neanderthal reconstitution through the years, the oldest looked the more ape-like. It changed many times always giving up ape-like traits to more and more human ones. This is an indication of what people wanted to see, a clear biased guesses, until more complete skulls and other bones were found.

[@JessicaSunlight]

Think about it, mindless process not only creates out of "dead" chemistry living standing Human Being but it also knows how to do symmetry... People in majority cannot do symmetry be it drawings or in other activities and yet we are to believe, mindless nature to construct without goal, meaning, direction, blue print, information, intelligence - a human being? I would say to whom ever says this "You can look for a fool elsewhere. I simply refuse to accept nonsense"

[@MarcelinhoTheRock]

Watching This on 2024

[@bobvadney7240]

Back ha thank sooooomuch Dr Tour...they cant explain the " complexity....bc they dont understand or dont want to understand the enormous & gigantical...complexity they keep bumping into...well so much for all that " simple cell" bs...huh???

[@DS-en4et]

"We made a product that makes it harder for poor countries to mimic the overpriced material designer brands". Nice, I'm sure Jesus will be impressed when he returns. Note virtually none of the miracle things he says they can do have eventuated into reality for everyday humans. Except for the one about protecting the IP of Gucci, Hermes, Versace

[@robjohnston1433]

Well said! What a ConMan!

[@deliomanentti]

🙏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@edwardlongfellow5819]

One thing is certain and that is those who hold that the answer to the origin of life is to be found in some religious book will never find it.

[@Pukovnik141]

It's not in a book. There are 2 stories about creation which explain relation between God and humans. Stories weren't written as evidence nor detailed explanation. Bible is not there to explain how laws of physics work. Some say you can't create a being from thin air or dirt, but if you have power you could rearrange subatomic particles, atoms, molecules... Ultimately your statement is true.

[@rovidius2006]

That you can repeat is true , instantaneous generation is by far the the cheapest way to go at it , many were able to force their theories on masses as it provides a taste of power .

[@kusmardiyantototok946]

how does he deny that life was created by God e.i. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala?

[@babbisp1]

Nts 1:40:51

[@babbisp1]

1:24:07 1:30:00

[@lawneymalbrough4309]

We have good reason to distrust higher education. That reason is the fruit of their work.

[@gonnacry4513]

This

[@jayrobbinstacks4574]

WTF kind of tinfoil hat shit are you on? Save some for the rest of us?

[@RozkminTo]

It's funny how people who believe in "it all created itself" on the other hand can't handle assembling something from ikea.

[@kusmardiyantototok946]

abiogensis was imposible without God's intervention?

[@fdameron]

The process of evolution only has one target, survival of the species. As traits develop in a species the traits that help that species to survive get passed on and over time that species will transition to a new species. That is evolution. You say that temperatures required to make a motor out of chemicals are 5c followed by -10 to -15c and then -50c. That point I have no issue with. The issue is you say that -50c needs to be in the atmosphere, not true. Where else could you find such an extreme you may ask? I refer you to a song that says "I'd like to be, under the sea." Hydrothermal vents have all the temperatures needed for this and more. The ambient temperature of water around the vents can reach below -50 and at the vents can exceed 407c. You can read more about it here; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrothermal_vent Even without the hydrothermal vents, all you have done is present a long winded strawman fallacy. You have misrepresented abiogenesis and evolution and basically said, "this is highly unlikely, therefore god." That doesn't get you any closer to a god claim than any other argument. All you done is dressed it up with science and failed to present any compelling evidence for your god. All I have to say about this is, a swing and a miss.

[@markcredit6086]

You have what's known as the Dunning Krueger effect Basically it States you're too dumb to know you're dumb

[@fdameron]

@@markcredit6086 No, I have demonstrated the weakness in his argument by showing where are 3 temperatures can be found in close proximity. Your assertion of me being DK'd lacks any evidence, unlike by refuting of the claim in this video, and thus I am dismissing your lazy assertion.

[@westandready628]

Your misunderstanding of chemical reactions leads to your misrepresentation of what Dr. Tour is saying. Chemical reactions do not stop and start on their own. Scientists today, using all of the chemicals that are necessary to create one carbohydrate molecule, can’t create a single cell. On a prebiotic Earth there is no circumstance which life would arrive spontaneously. The facts are not disputed because they can’t simulate the process that they believe led to the first life. Not to mention the DNA containing the genetic code that directs the construction of the components of the cell. Where would the information arise from that contains the genetic code necessary for life? Where does this information come from?

[@anthonypolonkay2681]

Hydrothermal vents have potential to solve some of the temperature variation issues, but they are plagued by a vast number of other chemical issues mainly having to due with hydrolization of product material, and i think chloride reactions due to salinity. And it also offers no solution to the problem of having yo stop reactions, and isolate compounds before they continue on to unusable material.

[@fdameron]

@@anthonypolonkay2681 But the temperatures as well as the raw materials are there. You say there are a number of chemical issues around hydrothermal vents, explain them and provide your research to demonstrate your point. And as far as stopping the reaction, all it needs to do is get away from the heat source. Plenty of room to do that, plenty of propulsion provided by the vents to do so.

[@paulleverington3453]

Everybody Talks as if they got the truth. They have the answers yet those answers disagree with one another. Pretty funny

[@bdavidgreenwell8298]

That's what amazes me about this man! He is willing to admit that he doesn't know and exposes those who claim that they do when he knows that they can't know!

[@KingdomOfHeavenPictures]

Did someone give the guy from the island a ride home? He obviously doesn't know anybody because he's lived there by himself for so long, so please offer him a ride. I think he has the only degree that island has to offer as well. He's the ruler of his own island really...at least in his mind.

[@glenliesegang8935]

The ego wants to kill everything it does not agree with. The zen monks knew its poison. A zen koan for you: who are you, really? True scientists never scoff. Tough to say a man who has developed technology which can heal severed spinal cords is delusional. His kids seem to have done pretty well for having a delusional dad. Smallest bacterium has 3000 genes, each 1000 base pairs. E. coli genome is 4.5 M base pairs. What process, without intelligence, correctly ordered 4^3 M base pairs into the data equivalent of letters, words, spaces, sentences, paragraphs, pages, chapters and a book?

[@lrvogt1257]

Q) Of all the things for which a cause is known... what percentage are natural phenomena within the laws of nature? A) 100%. Q) How many are supernatural and outside the laws of nature? A) 0%. Tour likes to lean into the laws of nature when he asks scientists making some claim..."Where's the data?" OK. Fair enough so for logical consistency he must ask the same about his supernatural causation. "Where's the data?" The demonstrable fact is that there is NONE so he's logically inconsistent and hypocritical. It's all sophistry to give a pseudo-scientific rationalization for people who need some more justification for their belief. This is a foolish tactic because the science can never work in favor of the supernatural because the supernatural is completely unscientific.

[@lawneymalbrough4309]

That guy at the end was pretty lame. He used a hypothetical situation that he himself has never experienced nor did he count on God's ability to reach out to isolated people's through the spirit. I guess he's not born if the spirit.

[@markgrissom]

The resurrection is hard for me in the strictest literal sense, to see a supernatural miracle. I question that interpretation, based in Dr. Meyer's ID argument for uniform repeated experience. On the other hand, a God that without doubt in my mind created the universe and all living things in it, could in fact raise anyone/anything from the dead is an obvious logical conclusion. At this point in my life, the miracle of Christ is not in the resurrection, instead it is in the fact that his teachings changed the world.

[@solemnexistence]

I find the resurrection fits the goodness and beauty I attribute to God, that He loves life, and takes no pleasure in the death of His creation. Biblically speaking, we were only meant to live forever. Death is not 'normal' Biblically, it's a punishment. Comparing this line of reasoning to what we know biologically, I see a hand in glove fit. The Bible gives life the greatest value of all, made in God's image, meant to know Him forever, with every good thing ensuing.

[@joshbarrow6246]

1 Corinthians 15:14 And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. 15 Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not. 16 For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised: 17 And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. 18 Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. 19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. Does Paul, who wrote the book of Corinthians, think that Christ didn't rise in a literal sense? Or that He rose?

[@glenliesegang8935]

Would you die a martyr's death if you had not seen Him raised?

[@helenhelm6910]

You are correct about Christ’s teachings changed the world, but the world was changed precisely because he rose from the dead. Otherwise not.

[@Pukovnik141]

@@glenliesegang8935 Martyr is a person who is killed because of their religious or other beliefs. It doesn't even have to be Christianity. There were martyrs before Christ and after.

[@Jayf1981]

@3:30

[@darkeen42]

Yeah you need to listen to people who actually understand it. It's really not that miraculous or amazing if you can bother to learn about it

[@Jayf1981]

@@darkeen42 Nobody can explain it, so who do I listen to? It's not good enough to say "Science proves it" without providing evidence!

[@Jayf1981]

@@darkeen42 You're the one that believes life created itself, I say a mind is needed to produce life, if it happened by accident that would be miraculous, and if we ever succeed in creating life in a laboratory it will not have been by accident.

[@darkeen42]

@@Jayf1981 well then you need to learn something about enzymes proteins and biology. Your ignorance on the matter doesn't alter reality

[@darkeen42]

@@Jayf1981 it wouldn't be miraculous that all it would be extremely extremely extremely unlikely but considering there's trillions and trillions and trillions and trillions and trillions of molecules in all the oceans and all the world bumping together interacting trillions and trillions and trillions of times every second for millions of years the extremely unlikely Becomes of guaranteed

[@rgmveraart]

Unbelievable how you are lying in this video!!

[@skellingtonmeteoryballoon]

you mean at 17:35 ? you think it would be more than 10 milligrams ?

[@Isenmouthe]

It's his job.

[@filmfan4]

That arse at the end, "I believe all the prophets..." Well if you do sir then you'd believe Jesus when He said, "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me." Besides, if you truly believed all the prophets (I'm assuming you mean of all reliogions) yet they all hold contradictory truth claims, so how can you believe them all? 1 Peter 3:18-20 tells us that Jesus shared the gospel message to those who had died before his coming: "For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, in which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison, because they formerly did not obey, when God's patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water." God is currently speaking to many Muslims in the Middle East about Jesus in their dreams. God sent missionaries to bring the gospel to many living in isolation...so yes, God is merciful and all will give all the oppurtunity to respond to His offer of salvation. "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things. Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen." - Romans 1:18-25