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James Tour: The Mystery of the Origin of Life

Discovery Science · lecture · Watch on YouTube

ChemistryEvolution & geneticsReligion, belief & skepticism

What it is

Synthetic organic chemist James Tour gives a lecture arguing that origin-of-life research is far from explaining how life began. The talk was published by the Discovery Institute and drew sharp criticism.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Recommended by some as a blunt expert critique of origin-of-life research, while others question its claims and length.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 2 strong recommendations
  • first 2019, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “James Tour has a great series on origin of life that shows in the hard tasks of applying biology we are way off knowing how any of this works.”

    Series showing how far biology is from explaining life's origin.

    friendlybus, 2020-11 · Strong recommendation · in “I should have loved biology”

  2. “I can recommend watching James Tour on this very topic [1]”

    Lecture on origin of life described as eye-opening.

    freediver, 2022-04 · Strong recommendation · in “Human brain compresses working memories into low-res ‘summaries’”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: abiogenesis, james tour, chemistry, intelligent design, prebiotic chemistry

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