James Tour: A Chemists Questions About Evolution

James Tour and I do not agree on everything, but we found virtue in the wasteland, friendship across our disagreements. James Tour is the great chemist from Rice University We have our disagreements. He is not an Intelligent Design (ID) proponent, but he is more friendly to ID than am I. He even signed The Dissent from Darwinism, a statement that I see as a garden path. Across our disagreements, we still found common ground. Over the last few years, Tour and I grew to be friends. For many years, Jim had this invitation, a challenge, on his website. Does anyone understand the chemical details behind macroevolution? If so, I would like to sit with that person and be taught, so I invite them to meet with me. Lunch will be my treat. Until then, I will maintain that no chemist understands, hence we are collectively bewildered. In 2017, I responded to this invitation. We talked on the phone together for a couple hours. To my surprise, and his credit, Jim quickly booked a plane flight to St. Louis to discuss this with me in person. He paid for this ticket with his own money, and scheduled for the next week. I cleared my schedule. When he arrived, we spent two full days talking about science, family, faith, and evolution. This whirlwind exchange is how we first met and how we became friends. https://peacefulscience.org/tour-frie... ----- Peaceful Science is a civic practice of science, making space for differences. Support our mission and values with just $1/month:   / peacefulscience