James Tour
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 15 Dec
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I mean, there are people that are doing this, that they say that they're on the verge of making life.
I mean, Jack Sostek, who was a professor at Harvard, now he's at the University of Chicago, Nobel Prize winner, said in 2014 to a gathering in New York, a gathering of lay people in New York,
that he will have life in his lab in three to five years.
That was in 2014.
Guess what?
He missed his deadline.
And then years later, he now says, you know, we're still working on trying to get the RNA, just trying to get RNA.
He hasn't even made RNA.
From RNA to life is a chasm that's universe-wide.
He hasn't even made the RNA, yet he was making claims to the lay public that he'd have life in his lab in three to five years.
And then Dimitar Seselov, an astrophysicist from Harvard, said, well, it's not going to be three to five.
It's probably more like five and not three.
He said at the same gathering, well, guess what?
He missed his deadline.
I mean, Steve Benner, Steve Benner has said on podcasts, he says that most of the, many of the, that's exactly, most of the, many of the paradoxes in origin of life have been solved.
Like none of them have been solved.
Zero, zero have been solved.
In his own mind, they are solved.
And I challenged him on it.
I said, what is solved?
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