Dave Farina’s “Experts” completely DEBUNKED. The Religion of Prebiotic Soup - Lee Cronin Part 01

Dr. Tour is back! Addressing Abiogenesis, Season 2 is here!
In this first episode, after looking back to how the prebiotic soup model is being taught in scientific textbooks, we review an interview between Lee Cronin and Dr. James Tour that referenced a previous interview between Lee Cronin and Justin Brierley. In those interviews, Cronin explained his research—an algorithmic search for life—and how the search is for a semantically different type of "life"—a molecular system reduced to one that can move towards replicating itself and one that can be created randomly in a lab. Given the requirements for life as we know it today, even crude requirements for the simplest life, involve much more than Cronin's reduced definition, Dr. Tour questioned Cronin for a clarification to a statement he made to Brierley where Cronin affirmed that life arose as a result of chemical reactions in a prebiotic soup. Dr. Tour asked Cronin for evidence of such an extrapolated claim, and he reminded Cronin that, even if evidence of life exists in the fossil record, such evidence doesn't explain the “how”. How simple molecules transitioned from non-living matter into living matter—Dr. Tour reminds us that scientists are clueless on that. When ultimately pinned down on the question, Cronin agreed that we don’t know.

VIDEO INDEX
00:00 Once There Was A Chemist
01:09 Intro
01:58 A New Series on Abiogenesis
03:13 Dear Jim
04:36 The Hype around OOL
05:50 Three Chemists Walk Into A Bar
11:12 Science Communicator
13:08 Primordial Soup
15:04 Lee Cronin
16:55 Let Cronin Speak
21:31 Salad Dressing
25:01 How Did Life Come From Primordial Soup?
25:53 Give Me The Evidence
30:52 See You Next Time!