what a lion for Jesus, May the lord bless you dr. tour and more believers in the fields with increasing courage, the window of time for testifying for the truth might not be long, May God grant us boldness for his kingdom.

Even an atheist remarked that Dr Tour would be a member of the National Academy of Sciences had he not been so vocal about his Christian faith. I think he should be a Nobel Laureate as well. One of the greatest scientists of our day.

It's not just science, the corruption is EVERYWHERE, even in the church or most of all in the church. Politics, entertainment, education, economics, mechanics, chemistry, absolutely everywhere.

Thankyou Dr. Tour! your graphene production research helped me recieve an 'A' in my peace studies university class. I had to write a paper on peace building and your graphene production has amazing implications for bringing about peace to the world through resource distribution and innovation. From graphine batteries succeeding the lithium mines in the congo, to making vehicles out of lighter materials, your work will revolutionise the future. waste dumps all over the world including in the ocean may have financial incentive to be cleaned up for raw material in order to produce graphene. thankyou for everything you do Dr. Tour!

It always was and always will be a heart issue! Even if one should be raised from the dead they still will not believe!

Dr. Tour, you are an awesome human being not because you are a professor of chemistry but because you are a true and honest defender of justice and mercy in this life. I really enjoy listening to your debates. I am sure a lot of other people respect you and love you too.

You are such a blessing. Without love all is just gongs and brass. We pray for Mr. Farina

Hidden gems on KZfaq 🙏🏼✝️

God bless you Dr. Tour and continue to speak boldly!

When my daughter was 4 I tested her knowledge about where milk came from by asking her. She told me it came from the refrigerator. I asked where it came from before the refrigerator and she said it came from the store. Still wanting to see if she knew it came from cows I asked her how the store came about having milk. She told me that God made it. Now most adults would know it comes from a cow. But then that is not a complete explanation--for how did it come about in the cow? One might say it was grass or grain or water and the cow's biology and the laws of physics and so on. A studious adult studying the issue all their life could add many more steps and even so they would not have a complete explanation. Even the steps they added would have gaps in the details. But in the long run, they could not reach any other ultimate conclusion that improved on God made it. Ultimate explanation has to stop somewhere, and the thing it stops on has to be God like--that is it has to exist out of the necessity of its own nature rather than be contingent on something else. And it has to be the ultimate explanation of all that is contingent.

I myself come from a physics background before I transitioned into bioinformatics. the origin of life field does not even remotely have the rigor of other fields outside of biology such as chemistry, physics and mathematics. The standards for scientific proof in physics (particularly quantum theory) are far more rigorous than anything found in the biological sciences. There is no empirical evidence that every single life-form in existence has an ancestor with inorganic origins. We have not seen this evidence. If this evidence ever pops up I will have no issue with it but I have seen no empirical evidence of this happening only plausible reasons for it to occur. This is not how science is done in chemistry or physics where actual sensory data is required with significant figures to measure the error. We should simply be humble and admit that we do not know how life got here. That is a vital skill in research: admitting what we do not know.

Once again, amazing video. Great Q&A! I feel so very blessed to be able to call you a brother in Christ, Dr. Tour. Firstly, you are using your God-gifted talent to the highest degree as one of the world's leading chemists and bringing incredible discoveries that have a tremendous positive impact on fighting tough medical battles etc. But, most importantly, when I witness you "LIGHT UP" with passion about Jesus Christ and what He means to you and your genuine desire to evangelize His Gospel, to anyone and everyone who may reach out to you says it all. May our Good Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, continue to richly bless you and your family, AND stay healthy! We need you here for a while! Much Love and respect.

Love our Dr. Tour!

And now Mr Tours needs to take that last step away from ego and accept that Man will never be Godlike in knowledge and understanding. That there's likely another level of reality beneath and beyond what we've discovered and then another beneath/beyond that and another . . .

As someone who usually watches Dave's videos, I am glad I came here. I honestly don't understand where people get the idea that you want us to stop researching origin of life because it's impossible to understand. In Dave's video he says you say that, but I didn't see where he got that from. Here though, you actually address both points towards two different people. From what I'm understanding, you don't think it's impossible to understand, but will become possible with new people working on it. Which makes sense because that is how science works, right? Newton theorized and gravity and created an equation that works to a point. For awhile it was "impossible" for people to comprehend how gravitity works beyond the scope that Newton's equation calculates for until Einstein expanded upon. The same thing I'm sure happens everyday in science, and this seems to be your opinion from my understanding.

God Bless Dr. Tour

I can't tell you how much I love these short ones. I just know you are a true prophet.

Dr. Tour Thank you for another educational and inspiring video. Please never stop spreading the Word!

I was wondering about this for months! Thanks Dr. Tour

Welcome to Canada Mr. Tour...Glad to see you here! God bless! Amen!🙌🏼🙏❤️🥰😎

Dr Tour you’re an awesome messenger of God Almighty, Lord God is using you mightily. God bless you and keep you covered under His grace

Great initial answer to the question. helps me toremember approach ius more important than observation or perception

Thanks, really admire Dr Tour

God Bless you Dr. Tour on speaking with reverence to our Lord in your reply, speaks to the depth of your Faith. I hope you're a KofC Member and have you ever considered becoming a Deacon?

Thank you for not backing down❤❤❤❤.

Tour is beast. Thanks for doing what you do.

The universe in existence is the symphony orchestrated and conducted by the intelligent design of the creator, God.

I've always been a hater of this man due to Professor Dave's videos on him but I've come to learn that he's such an incredible human he made me like him so much, he's literally the first religious person I've seen disproving our knowledge towards the origin of life without using "God" as an argument but rather science itself, that is truly impressive. Just to leave things clear, I grew up as a religious person in a Christian family and I served the church, preached and all and even studied as many religions as I could (at least more than 7) seeking to understand the division between all of them which eventually made me realize they all had a good point to some extent and also all of them had their problems as to which I came to a conclusion that one will only believe and defend what they're mostly exposed to or the environment they grow in. So this lead me into following my path and that is being agnostic coz that journey I took brought me so many questions as to whether or not there was really a higher being. I still respect everyone and admire people like James who know how to balance their faith with science.

I find it very ironic that often scientists point out that the Roman Catholic Church persecuted Galileo for his scientific views, but now centuries later the tables have turned!

3:46 dang! "... if they do this to me... what do you think they'd do to an assistant professor..."

Peace in Christ! 🕎✝️🕊🔥

God bless you.

Love ya Brother James! Thank you for doing Yah's work!

The term God of the gaps doesn't apply here because that term implies human beings have enough knowledge to even reach the starting line, a term like God of the extreme expanse would be more appropriate. Good job Dr. Tour.

Where did dark matter come from? If you take the universe down to it’s simplest form, you either get a universe which has always existed or a God who has always existed. But we know through science that the universe had to have a beginning…soooo?

Dr.Tuur. the Cop of Chemistry. He walks the LINE , "by the book." Dedicated;Determined;Disciplined;Decipled!

I would say that other problems, such as the evolution of male and female reproductive anatomy in separate bodies, are also insurmountable. Dr. Tour is a gift.

I never said anything derogatory like that against Dr. James Tour. Because he is Christian, he is my favorite person including Dr. William Lane Craig. Please do not comment if you think I am saying disgraceful things about them. They are the world's best and greatest human beings if you ask me.

"I have not evolved." 😂. You, me, and everyone else.

"as sciense lovers, we need to have more faith in our OOL researchers, even if they are just making things up we can still hold on to our unwavering faith that God is not an option in science. scientism's life matters! "

Well done Dr Tour!

Thank you Lord for raising a hero in Science and Your Word. God bless you Dr. Tour and may God protect you mightily and all your loved ones and ministries, and that mighty wisdom from God will continue to pour in you in abundance and that you will continue to spearhead strongly in Science and the Word of God in truth and in Spirit. In Jesus Christ's name, amen! your Christian bro here from the Philippines.

"It's the old guys who are doing this." If I may, I would say no, that it's the connected and established guys who are doing this, to protect their connections and their positions and titles, and so on, and that the young guys eventually become the connected, titled guys. And so the culture of compromise continues, as it has for millennia, as was the case with the Pharisees of the time of Christ, and it was nothing new then!

Keep up the great work, Dr. Tour! 👍

Love the information!! Is there an article that is written that explains what it would take to create life? Such as the gaps in the coupling of the enzymes and the time limits associated with the coupling process to the point of failure? Just looking for a peer reviewed study on what is necessary for the coupling process. Something other than the Fine Tuning Universe look. Thanks for any and all Academia papers that would substantiate the probability or improbable coupling process

Dr Tour, why do some coordination complexes contain 18 electrons, but others contain 16 electrons? What determines the lability of ligand substitution or if the substitution will occur at all?

Dr Tour we know the battle is with the Adversary Satan but you are Not alone GOD IS WITH US.AMEN.

I heard you're about to debate Dave in a "almost a waste of time" format. I call it that because any debate without a cross examination is just exactly that. Cross examination is the real debate

I would argue (have argued since I have a vid on it) that "God of the Gaps" isn't always a bad argument. If it were, then even when Jesus turned water into fine wine on a surprise request without ever touching the jugs or the water then the claim of a miracle could be dismissed as a God of the Gaps argument. It would nullify any claim of a miracle no matter how strong the evidence. It gets more complicated than that but basically there are a few criteria and the better the circumstances of what you study fit the more reasonable a God of the gaps argument becomes. At least in a context where (like Christians today say) God isn't just God of the gaps. He made everything between the gaps too. He made the laws and acted in exception to those laws. It isn't like we are saying God stumbled on a universe complete with physical laws and decided to meddle in it once in a while.

Very clear explanation on the status quo of ooL. Thank you so much for this enlightenment. I am thinking if you take the God path to this issue from what you said about speaking things into being, then it is the breath of God that gave and still gives life. That is why our words as humans create because they come with the breath of life from God.

What? Just because we understand it does not mean its not created by someone, In fact its actually the opposite since we know the intention of the body and intentions generally are created with consciousness.

Unbelievable good!

The problem is is that what if God spoke things into existence or that we indeed live in some kind of God created matrix, then both scientist and believer would be hard pressed to explain the origins of nature and the universe through our limited understanding.

One of the best jew believer in Yahshuah, scientist and man who walk on earth right now. He is crushing all modern mainstream science eith ease and nobody seem yo want to seriously debate him. Why? Because they know they are lieing to the world. Even kids perceive the textbooks are fantasies........

God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is absolutely real. Repent and turn to Christ, He paid your price in full and loves you, there is no works you have to do… just feel sorry for your sin, realize you are a sinner…. Ask God for forgiveness in the name of Jesus Christ your Savior and turn from your sinful life… follow after Christ and walk in the light. You won’t stop sinning, but you will be covered in the blood of Christ and declared righteous by your faith. It is by Gods Grace you are saved through faith and not of works. Believe and repent, pick up your cross and follow Christ.

The "God of the gaps" critique carries very little weight for at least two reasons. The first is that theists, believing themselves to be contingent and derived beings, can never lay claim to exhaustive knowledge. We are comfortable with paradox and the mysteries of life. The second reason is that the non-theist has the same problem of trying to explain the inexplicable. The difference is largely semantic; the non-theist has "faith" that someday our limited intellects will find an explanation. A person truly knowledgeable in philosophy understands the limits of rationality.

I would predict science (naturalistic research) cannot come up with explanations for all phenomena...the naturalistic origin of life being just one example.

And if Dr Tour believes there is a scientific solution to the very very difficult problem if humanity survives that long. The doctor is trying to stay away from mentioning God, but I wonder about what to do with that scientific solution and what to think about the survival of humanity.

Dr. James Tour should debate the rap god

Dr. Tour, I would love to have you on my channel as a non-YEC believer to share more of your thoughts. But I am a very small creator on YT.

*_I love science, but hate the politics and ego involved!_* I talk about some of these problems in several of my books, including: *_The Logical Christian_* (hardcover) *_The Bible's Hidden Wisdom: God's Reason for Noah's Flood_* (hardcover, paperback, ebook) *_Proof of God_* (hardcover, paperback, ebook) *_Dumb Genius: How intelligence is sometimes its own worst enemy_* (hardcover, paperback, ebook) *_Mission: Atlantis_* (hardcover, paperback, ebook)

For the young man who asked if we could look at Dr. Tour's problem "from a point of view of scale," meaning, "Yes these problems are massive of blind nature finding the just right molecular combinations, avoiding cross reactions, finding some sort of membrane to encase these things, etc. However, since the universe is so SO big, and since it has billions of years to happen, couldn't probability overcome these hurdles in the long run?" I suggest that this young man crunch the numbers. Are 14 billion years enough? Or have our materialist friends just thrown out vague, big numbers in order to avoid actually doing the math? I have a suspicion this "billions and billions" argument may be an avoidance technique. I am an evidence guy. Will the materialists please sharpen their pencils and show me and Dr. Tour the numbers? Perhaps 14 billion is enough. But I don't think I should accept that by taking a blind leap of faith when someone just throws out a vague claim like, "Well, the universe had billions and billions of years you know. Surely that's more than enough!" Really? How do we know its enough?

Paul's letter to the Romans. Chapter one, verse 32... Who, (knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such atrocities are worthy of death) not only do the same, but have pleasure in those that do them.

God knows everything, there are no gaps. period.

Not sure how Tour doesn't want to be asociated with Intelligent Design and yet claims to believe in an Intelligent Designer who stated he created and designed life on earth.

Please can you interview Dr Francis Collins who is a convert and preaches evolution is true based on DNA evidence but will believes in Jesus

In our ignorance we find god! 😮

A month or so ago, I sat down with a Bible, and another translation in order to cross reference, and I began numbering names. It wasn't a scientific study by any means, but it was a careful one. I have a degree in language and literature. I know my rough draft mosy likely has errors. I found myself correcting a few as I formed it. What I did was, I numbered the names as they were listed. God, as in the Father, then the Holy Spirit, Eden, Euphrates, Adam, and so on. I named the first mention of each man, woman, river, mountain, demon, race, tribe, and ao on. I listed Abram and Abraham as separate numbers, largely because God is so careful to make the distinction. I did the same with other name changes, especially those made by God. I deliberated and ultimately decided Jealous was a name I would leave out, even though God clearly calls it His name. It was a hard decision, and I'm not sure I got it right. So, when I got to 666, the name of that number was Ba'al Peor. That is Ancient Hebrew for God of the Opening/Hole/Gap. Baal Peor, Belphegor, is a demon of defilement, and his worship requirements are unclean, to say the least. I know it's only nominally connected to the topic you came to discuss, but I can't help but share when I see it.

There is no way you can look at the Cell Nucleus in action. And not understand design was behind it. As it makes humans look like we just discovered fire.. And the next person that invokes Time. As a physical force. I will laugh so hard. As Time does not cause an Action...

God pervades everything and to try and keep him out of science, even the discussion of it, is to my mind negative, though utterly human. I think, we do this to quieten objectors and protect ourselves. How could we manage otherwise? It seems fair but perhaps we underrate what it takes to be God's disciple. As D. Bonhoeffer put it quite starkly: "When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die."

@6:55 ... mmm ... hope that's not some veiled bigoted poke at the Muslim world? I know James had deep faith in Jesus (as) and I love him for it, but I am very certain he is culturally clueless about the rest of the world ... or at worst he's absorbed too much propaganda. Anyway ... what I wanted to really know is where can I watch the lecture he gave here? The one before this Q and A? And good luck in the Debate against Dave ... really looking forward to that

Is it possible the God spoke everything into existence 6000 or so years ago and set the the universe off into the expansion we see now?

Question: why is it you've been visited and no one else?

Dr. Tour: 1) Based on the TEST/COMMAND in 1JOHN 4:1-3 (KJV), please identify the following: A) The SPIRIT THAT IS OF GOD/PRO-CHRIST (1John 4:2). B) The spirit of antichrists/false prophets (1John 4:3). 2) 1 JOHN 4:1-3 (KJV) is a COMMAND which MUST be abided on so as not to be deceived by antichrists/false prophets (1John 4:3) and not to be the deceivers/deceived (2John 1:5-7) who are MANY in the world (1John 4:1).

I love watching this guy make a complete a*se of himself 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Even Darwin knew his theory had problems and could be proven wrong

All of us need faith to let our life working properly. Atheism's beliefs on the origin of life that come with countless missing links, ostensibly, are not somethings that I can afford to gamble my soul big.

l believe God DID speak _life,_ and the universe, into existence, and crafted Adam n Eve from the dust of the earth. ....because He said He did. lts hard for me to believe we can figure out _how_ life started in the natural sense. lts miraculously done. ln my ''pea brain'' Jesus is the origin, as He said _''l have the keys to death, and hades''_ ~ Rev l :18 ...lt is the same with life. As you have said before 'We dont even know what life really is. We can have all the components of a cell but we cant make it go. What is it (life)' l think its something that only God can give. Thank you James! Love your work. :D

Modern Quantum Physics has shown that reality is based on probability: ​ A statistical impossibility is defined as “a probability that is so low as to not be worthy of mentioning. Sometimes it is quoted as 1/10^50 although the cutoff is inherently arbitrary. Although not truly impossible the probability is low enough so as to not bear mention in a Rational, Reasonable argument." The probability of finding one particular atom out of all of the atoms in the universe has been estimated to be 1/10^80. The probability of just one (1) functional 150 amino acid protein chain forming by chance is 1/10^164. It has been calculated that the probability of DNA forming by chance is 1/10^119,000. The probability of random chance protein-protein linkages in a cell is 1/10^79,000,000,000. Based on just these three cellular components, it would be far more Rational and Reasonable to conclude that the cell was not formed by un-directed random natural processes. Note: Abiogenesis Hypothesis posits that un-directed random natural processes, i.e. random chance formation, of molecules led to living organisms. Natural selection has no effect on individual atoms and molecules on the micro scale in a prebiotic environment. (*For reference, peptides/proteins can vary in size from 3 amino acid chains to 34,000 amino acid chains. Some scientists consider 300-400 amino acid protein chains to be the average size. There are 42,000,000 protein molecules in just one (1) simple cell, each protein requiring precise assembly. There are approx. 30,000,000,000,000 cells in the human body.) Of all the physical laws and constants, just the Cosmological Constant alone is tuned to a level of 1/10^120; not to mention the fine-tuning of the Mass-Energy distribution of early universe which is 1/10^10^123. Therefore, in the fine-tuning argument, it would be more Rational and Reasonable to conclude that the multi-verse is not the correct answer. On the other hand, it has been scientifically proven numerous times that Consciousness does indeed collapse the wave function to cause information waves of probability/potentiality to become particle/matter with 1/1 probability. A rational and reasonable person could therefore conclude that the answer is consciousness. A "Miracle" is considered to be an event with a probability of occurrence of 1/10^6. Abiogenesis, RNA World Hypothesis, and Multiverse would all far, far, far exceed any "Miracle". Yet, these extremely irrational and unreasonable hypotheses are what some of the world’s top scientists ‘must’ believe in because of a prior commitment to a strictly arbitrary, subjective, biased, narrow, limiting, materialistic ideology / worldview. Every idea, number, concept, thought, theory, mathematical equation, abstraction, qualia, etc. existing within and expressed by anyone is "Immaterial" or "Non-material". The very idea or concept of "Materialism" is an immaterial entity and by it's own definition does not exist. Modern science seems to be stuck in archaic, subjective, biased, incomplete ideologies that have inadequately attempted to define the "nature of reality" or the "reality of nature" for millennia. A Paradigm Shift in ‘Science’ is needed for humanity to advance. A major part of this Science Paradigm Shift would be the formal acknowledgment by the scientific community of the existence of "Immaterial" or "Non-material" entities as verified and confirmed by observation of the universe and discoveries in Quantum Physics.)

Some fundamentals for context/understanding. As Christian's have been telling the world for over 6k years, and creationist's for the last 125 years; everything starts with faith! To explain: At 11 years old, a child is called by his parents to the living room because his parents have something important to share/teach the child. The parents proceed to reveal to their child they are atheists. In a nutshell their definition of atheism is: they are not afforded the faith to believe in God, gods (false), spiritual/transcendant beings, etc., so they require evidence for said being. There is no evidence for God (they continue) and we don't need evidence for any God as we know/understand how to live life and they can live it however they scratch their itch to do so! Their child promises to understand/learn and practice more atheism as after all, he exclaims, his parents would not deceive him, steer him wrong, etc. This is the first ever FAITH/BELIEF system implanted in this child. At 13 years old the child begins living a particular life choice consistently -- curse/cuss words! His understanding for this comes the a priori (now prior) faith/belief that God doesn't exist therefore cannot teach him how he ought to speak vs ought not. Fast forward to 16 years old, during lunch, this now young man chats with friends and one asks "Why do you curse/cuss so much? Didn't your parents teach you that it's wrong and that God gave us moral speech paterns"? Our atheist friend replies with something like "Actually, you were probably forced to accept by faith your God exists. I don't have this luxury and don't want it as I require evidence for this God, whow doesn't exist, so I decide how I speak, etc." =). Notice, this original faith doesn't stay at it's inception point. It travels with this atheist and will his entire life until he consciously rejects/denounces it, if ever he does. Not only this, but it will be used to INTERPRET anything this individual wants, and interpret within the original faith/belief system of 'there is no God, no evidence for God, etc'. During high school years, our atheist friend learns about evolution and becomes highly interested in the sciences. Initially, of course, he accepts evolution on faith (that it's allegedly fact) as he's just learned about it, and this decision has a catalyst, an engine/mechanism driving it -- the original/a priori faith/belief he was indoctrinated with at the age of 11. He continues to learn the sciences and excels, and becomes a scientist, a biologist, let's say. He's just arrived at his working institution; his lab! He's getting a tour of the place by other scientists (colleagues), and he's excited beyond words! And, can you guess what is right there with him, in his lab? Yup! That original faith/belief system, used since the age of 11 to INTERPRET anything and everything according to this faith/belief! =). The aformentioned were the words (not identical, of course) of Professor Richard Lewontin (1929-2021), a geneticist, and self-procalimed Marxist, who said the following: ‘Our willingness to accept scientific claims that are against common sense is the key to an understanding of the real struggle between science and the supernatural. We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.' The full article is still available unless the tech giants nuke it off the internet as they read these words. =). The original faith/belief system is driving the evolutionist camp's faith in materialism (naturalism/scientism). This is used by every scientist to INTERPRET evolution; it's not science, it's INTERPRETED (faith) science ! As for creation science, it's not debunked/refuted, it's perpetually DISALLOWED altogether to obtain the same foothold in the sciences, academia, school curriculum and media as evolution! Everything starts with faith, folks! Jesus revealed to us from the beginning ALL the false faiths (lies). Jesus loves us so much he revealed the global deceiver, Satan, and his tactics of deception. I understand the 'sense' of intellectual fullfilment atheists say/think they find in supporting an 'observed scientific facts' approach over a faith-based approach (in the living God). But this fullfilment is still a falsehood and there isn't even any common sense-based support for evolution. It's INTERPRETED facts, not obeserved! =).

I wouldn't even use the word evolution in the sense of "micro evolution" because all we ever witness is genetic expression of gene codes that weren't active in a normal environment. The genes are already in the genomes of the organisms involved in morphological variations. Evolution would suggest that new genetic coding somehow merged into the organism's genome, which is never observed. A more preferable terminology would be Constant Environmental Tracking (a new biological model adapted by Dr. Randy Guliuzza of the Institute for Creation Research.)

Tour 💪💪 appreciate all the work you do brother.

When was this talk held?

It is so affirming to hear you speak about the real problem, which is that of origins. I have held the same view for some time now and it has amazed me that so few actually point this out! It seems so obvious. From a purely naturalistic viewpoint, before life arose, it had to do so using brute chemistry and physics. But that chemistry is very complex. And as you point out, molecules don’t hang around intact and viable for decades, let alone millions or billions of years! The chemistry problem is huge and the odds are so stacked against a naturalistic explanation. The Evolutionists want to go directly to Evolution, bypassing what had to occur BEFORE natural selection could take place. It would be nice to think they have simply overlooked the topic of origins, but it is apparent to me that they really don’t want to talk about it. Thank you for speaking up about this, Dr. Tour!

Brilliant man!!!! Takes a lot more faith to believe in evolution than the Biblical narrative of origins. Dr. James Tour is the real deal!!!

"And [beware the Day] when Allāh will say, "O Jesus, Son of Mary, did you say to the people, 'Take me and my mother as deities besides Allāh?'" He will say, "Exalted are You! It was not for me to say that to which I have no right. If I had said it, You would have known it. You know what is within myself, and I do not know what is within Yourself. Indeed, it is You who is Knower of the unseen. I said not to them except what You commanded me - to worship Allāh, my Lord and your Lord. And I was a witness over them as long as I was among them; but when You took me up, You were the Observer over them, and You are, over all things, Witness. If You should punish them - indeed they are Your servants; but if You forgive them - indeed it is You who is the Exalted in Might, the Wise. Allāh will say, "This is the Day when the truthful will benefit from their truthfulness." For them are gardens [in Paradise] beneath which rivers flow, wherein they will abide forever, Allāh being pleased with them, and they with Him. That is the great attainment. To Allāh belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth and whatever is within them. And He is over all things competent." English translation of the Quran, chapter 5, verse 116-120.

The real problem is not that posed by the ‘God of the gaps’ argument but by the physics of the gaps - consciousness, intentionality, natural normativity, personal identity, etc. which stump physics.

When was this recorded?

Where is the university of waterloo?

(22:73) Those who call upon aught other than Allah shall never be able to create even a fly, even if all of them were to come together to do that. And if the fly were to snatch away anything from them, they would not be able to recover that from it. Powerless is the supplicant; and powerless is he to whom he supplicates.123

The argument of God of the Gaps is a straw man argument that does not address the philosophy of Science, why Science is used by men to understand Nature, or to address even what is Nature. The one asking that question needs to understand basic assumptions of reality.

X-tra Fallacy: It's the most popular atheist argument where you attempt to disprove the truth of something by just asserting that it's the said something of the gaps. An argument where you parody the opposition's conclusion by adding or multiplying and slabbing on some extra attributes or elements which you haven't proven necessary. The irony lays behind the reason for the argument which is that "it can be used to prove anything" when it can be used to disprove the truth of anything in any discussion. TLDR: "God of the gaps" is r3t@rd3d.

How come so many questions end up as lectures?

1) THEISM: Covers the SUBJECT form the BEGINNING/ORIGIN to the END and towards the NEW BEGINNING -- NO GAPS. ORIGIN: The BEGINNING of life, the universe, and everything -- CREATION WORK of a SUPREME BEING called GOD/CREATOR. REFERENCE: HOLY BIBLE (KJV ONLY). 2) ATHEISM: No ORIGIN of life, the universe, and everything -- gaps in atheism -- mental gaps suffered by atheists.

I think his statements about the time our planet has existed is not based on the Bible, but science and I believe the theory that it has been around for "billions of years" is false. The Bible does not teach that so how can he say what he does about billions of years and say he is a Bible believing Christian?

HE's the GOD of everything so how can he be the GOD of the gaps, when the Bible clearly states His attributes of creating all things

When we’re you at Waterloo?

The error so many speakers are prone to is that we should not even discuss this stupid stuff about probabilities simply because (1) the probability of any event whatsoever is > 0 in theory, (2) more importantly, though, this probability business ASSUMES the Shannon information model which is just NOT applicable to biological (and any other) function. It is wrong to even engage in this sort of rhetoric, 10^100 or whatever. All this poker hand business is so misleading. Function is just something the Shannon information model is incapable of addressing. Function is NOT additive, function is extremely rare in the space of possible configurations, the more complex function is, the more rare and smaller the islands of function get. The probabilistic take on this is misleading, if you are not careful and if you do not consider practical limitations which render all these laughable 'non-zero' probabilities to an operational zero (Borel's principle). At the heart of biological function lies a language and its complementary processing, where both the system's description and the system's description processor's description are encoded using the same protocol, while the encoding is handled in dual manner: it is copied and passed on to N+1-th generation and interpreted at N-th generation. This is what is going on here. Without intelligence this is insoluble. Because no granted natural regularity is up to the task of creating irregular symbolic boundary conditions for itself without telic guidance. The 'frosen accident' kind of narrative is not even wrong. Both regularity and randomness are equally information killers, which is the greatest blunder of Darwinists. Information is specified complexity unlike regularity (low complexity) or randomness (unspecified complexity). The naturalistic apparatus is just not going to get us anywhere in this, it is inadequate for the task of explaning the OOL. Not sure I share Dr Tour's optimism in this regard.

How did Mt. Rushmore appear? If human intervention is excluded, there is no reason to say that eventually scientific ingenuity will figure it out. Dr. Tour, you conceed too much.

Ironically "God of the gaps" is what evolutionists need for their theory to work. "If enough time..." is an argument based on faith.