James Tour
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 15 Dec
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So I give you all of this in your modern laboratory.
And I've challenged the entire origin of life community with this.
I'll give you everything.
Can you just assemble a cell?
And I've given you the code because I've given you the DNA structure.
Just assemble a cell.
Can any of you do it?
Nobody's come forward.
And I say that the year that you do that, you will win a Nobel Prize for sure for doing that.
Can you do it?
Nobody can.
We're nowhere close to that, nowhere close.
So even if you could make all of these pieces, could you do something with it?
And the answer is no, they don't know what to do.
And a cell is an amazing machine.
People will say, well, cells were much simpler back then, much simpler.
No, we already know what the simplest cells are.
First of all, yeah, we know what the simplest cells are because the simplest cells that we have on Earth today are very similar to the cells in the fossil record, the simplest cells in the fossil record.
That hasn't changed.
But biophysicists have already told us that you can calculate what is the simplest cell that you could have that could still be operable.
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