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:    • Response to James Tour: 700 Papers an...  
My original video on James:    • Elucidating the Agenda of James Tour:...  

Research cited in this video:
Organic molecules in planetary nebulae: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/2009IJA...
Organic synthesis in the solar nebula: http://geosci.uchicago.edu/~fciesla/C...
Life as a manifestation of the second law of thermodynamics: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
2021 autocatalysis review: https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrar...
Autocatalytic confusion clarified: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
Spontaneous network formation among cooperative RNA replicators: https://www.nature.com/articles/natur...
Cronin and autocatalysis: https://www.pnas.org/content/117/20/1...
Self-sustained replication of an RNA enzyme: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19131...
Niche partitioning in the coevolution of 2 distinct RNA enzymes: https://www.pnas.org/content/early/20...
Origin and evolution of the genetic code: https://iubmb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com...
Microscopic dissipative structuring and proliferation at the origin of life: https://www.cell.com/heliyon/pdf/S240...
Viedma on enantiomeric recrystallization: https://link.springer.com/article/10....
Deracemization of amino acids via sublimation: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23690...
Spoilt for choice on the evolution of homochirality: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/artic...
Selective adsorption of amino acids on calcite: https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/98/...
A route to enantiopure RNA precursors from nearly racemic starting materials: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21860...
Origin of biological homochirality: https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbio...

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