Response to James Tour: 700 Papers and Still Clueless (Part 1 of 2)

Last year I made a video about James Tour, a chemist and creationist who speaks out against origin of life research. He didn't like it much, so he decided to make a 14-part series about how dumb I am. He really pulled out all the stops, parading all of his classic fallacious talking points, with plenty of bald-faced lies and deliberate misrepresentations of scientific research peppered in for good measure. Honestly, I was rather shocked at how stupid it was. With so much material to work with, I ended up with quite a lot to say in response, and had to split it into two parts. In this Part 1, we discuss how James pretends to be an expert on origin of life research but objectively isn't, and how he deliberately ignores mountains of research regarding the emergence of homochirality. Part 2 of this response: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf72o6HmVNk My original video on James: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SixyZ7DkSjA Research cited in this video: Organic molecules in planetary nebulae: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/2009IJAsB...8..161K Organic synthesis in the solar nebula: http://geosci.uchicago.edu/~fciesla/Chronology/2012/ciesla_sandford_2012.pdf Life as a manifestation of the second law of thermodynamics: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0895717794901880 2021 autocatalysis review: https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/syst.202000026 Autocatalytic confusion clarified: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022519317304150 Spontaneous network formation among cooperative RNA replicators: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature11549 Cronin and autocatalysis: https://www.pnas.org/content/117/20/10699 Self-sustained replication of an RNA enzyme: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19131595/ Niche partitioning in the coevolution of 2 distinct RNA enzymes: https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/04/29/0903397106 Origin and evolution of the genetic code: https://iubmb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/iub.146 Microscopic dissipative structuring and proliferation at the origin of life: https://www.cell.com/heliyon/pdf/S2405-8440(17)31906-0.pdf Viedma on enantiomeric recrystallization: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1012790523136 Deracemization of amino acids via sublimation: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23690241/ Spoilt for choice on the evolution of homochirality: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2007/cc/b709314b#!divAbstract Selective adsorption of amino acids on calcite: https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/98/10/5487.full.pdf A route to enantiopure RNA precursors from nearly racemic starting materials: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21860459/ Origin of biological homochirality: https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007592 Watch my other debunks: http://bit.ly/ProfDaveDebunk EMAIL► [email protected] PATREON► http://patreon.com/ProfessorDaveExplains Check out "Is This Wi-Fi Organic?", my book on disarming pseudoscience! Amazon: https://amzn.to/2HtNpVH Bookshop: https://bit.ly/39cKADM Barnes and Noble: https://bit.ly/3pUjmrn Book Depository: http://bit.ly/3aOVDlT