Then he claims that if it took 400 million years to synthesise prebiotic molecules, then once it is oxidized or reduced then you've run out of raw materials and there's no possibility of these being remade.
No he doesn't. He says that after it took perhaps 400 million years to synthesize certain essential prebiotic molecules, they would decay within a few hours, and then the random chance process would have to start all over again, from square one.
One section I did watch is that he claimed that prebiotic molecules are inherently unstable and would quickly be oxidized or reduced - yet these same prebiotic molecules are found all across the universe, in meterorites, on moons and planets, in giant clouds of gas and dust.
I wonder if he is talking about those same prebiotic molecules at all?
It's their YouTube channel.
So what? It means they use his stuff. You go to a rock channel and the Rolling Stones will be on it. It's not their channel. And even if someone doesn't like the source, they should still give the material fair consideration, imo. At least a person should not enter a debate about a video they refuse to even watch?
I can't watch it all the way through because it's just someone ranting about things he doesn't seem to understand or have tried to understand
en.m.wikipedia.org
... He is well known for his work in
molecular electronics and molecular switching molecules ...
Tour has over 640 research publications and over 120 patents, with an H-index = 129 (107 by ISI Web of Science) and i10 index = 538 with total citations over 77,000 (Google Scholar) ...
... In 2001, Tour signed the Discovery Institute's "A Scientific Dissent From Darwinism", a controversial petition which the intelligent design movement uses to promote intelligent design by attempting to cast doubt on evolution.[37][38] To those who "are disconcerted or even angered that I signed a statement back in 2001" he responded "I have been labeled as an Intelligent Design (ID) proponent. I am not. I do not know how to use science to prove intelligent design although some others might. I am sympathetic to the arguments on the matter and I find some of them intriguing, but the scientific proof is not there, in my opinion. So I prefer to be free of that ID label."
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He had also said that he felt the explanations offered by evolution are incomplete, and he found it hard to believe that nature can produce the machinery of cells through random processes.
[37] On his website, he writes that "From what I can see, microevolution is a fact" and "there is no argument regarding microevolution. The core of the debate for me, therefore, is the extrapolation of microevolution to macroevolution."
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AwardsEdit
Tour was inducted into the National Academy of Inventors in 2015.
[41] He was named among "The 50 most Influential Scientists in the World Today" by TheBestSchools.org in 2014.
[42] Tour was named "Scientist of the Year" by
R&D Magazine in 2013.
[43] Tour won the ACS Nano Lectureship Award from the American Chemical Society in 2012. Tour was ranked one of the top 10 chemists in the world over the past decade by Thomson Reuters in 2009. That year, he was also made a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Other notable awards won by Tour include the 2008 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology, the NASA Space Act Award in 2008 for his development of carbon nanotube reinforced elastomers, the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society (ACS) for his achievements in organic chemistry in 2007, the Small Times magazine's Innovator of the Year Award in 2006, the Southern Chemist of the Year Award from ACS in 2005, the Honda Innovation Award for Nanocars in 2005, the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1990, and the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award in 1989.
In 2005, Tour's journal article "Directional Control in Thermally Driven Single-Molecule Nanocars" was ranked the Most Accessed Journal Article by the American Chemical Society.
[44] Tour has twice won the George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching at Rice University in 2007 and 2012.
Rice University is a private institution that was founded in 1912. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 4,001, its setting is urban, and the campus size is 300 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. Rice University's ranking in the 2019 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, 16.