{"id":6222,"date":"2014-03-11T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T20:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=6222"},"modified":"2014-03-11T12:37:14","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T17:37:14","slug":"behind-the-curtain-of-macro-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=6222","title":{"rendered":"Behind the Curtain of Macro-Evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professor James M. Tour is a highly-credentialed chemist, and a Christian. Check this link for the list<\/a>, and for his contention that there is no<\/em> scientist alive today who understands macro-evolution. Tour, of course, comes at this from a chemical point of view, and has no idea how something like that can happen at the molecular level. He’s asked over and over for someone to explain it to him, but so far no takers.<\/p>\n

In an article about an insider’s view of the National Academy, he explains the situation behind the curtain.<\/p>\n

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Let me tell you what goes on in the back rooms of science \u2013 with National Academy members, with Nobel Prize winners.<\/b> I have sat with them, and when I get them alone, not in public \u2013 because it\u2019s a scary thing, if you say what I just said \u2013 I say, \u201cDo you understand all of this, where all of this came from, and how this happens?\u201d Every time<\/i> that I have sat with people who are synthetic chemists, who understand this, they go \u201cUh-uh. Nope.\u201d<\/b> These people are just so far off, on how to believe this stuff came together. I\u2019ve sat with National Academy members, with Nobel Prize winners. Sometimes I will say, \u201cDo you understand this?\u201dAnd if they\u2019re afraid to say \u201cYes,\u201d they say nothing. They just stare at me, because they can\u2019t sincerely do it.<\/p>\n

I was once brought in by the Dean of the Department, many years ago, and he was a chemist. He was kind of concerned about some things. I said, \u201cLet me ask you something. You\u2019re a chemist. Do you understand this? How do you get DNA without a cell membrane? And how do you get a cell membrane without a DNA? And how does all this come together from this piece of jelly?\u201d We have no idea, we have no idea. I said, \u201cIsn\u2019t it interesting that you, the Dean of science, and I, the chemistry professor, can talk about this quietly in your office, but we can\u2019t go out there and talk about this?\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

If you understand evolution, I am fine with that. I\u2019m not going to try to change you \u2013 not at all. In fact, I wish I had the understanding that you have.<\/p>\n

But about seven or eight years ago I posted on my Web site that I don\u2019t understand. And I said, \u201cI will buy lunch for anyone that will sit with me and explain to me evolution, and I won\u2019t argue with you until I don\u2019t understand something<\/i> \u2013 I will ask you to clarify. But you can\u2019t wave by and say, \u201cThis enzyme does that.\u201d You\u2019ve got to get down in the details of where molecules are built, for me. Nobody<\/i> has come forward.<\/p>\n

The Atheist Society contacted me. They said that they<\/i> will buy the lunch, and they challenged the Atheist Society, \u201cGo down to Houston and have lunch with this guy, and talk to him.\u201d Nobody has come!<\/i> Now remember, because I\u2019m just going to ask, when I stop understanding what you\u2019re talking about, I will ask. So I sincerely want<\/i> to know. I would like<\/i> to believe it. But I just can\u2019t.<\/i><\/p>\n

Now, I understand<\/i> microevolution, I really do. We do this all the time<\/i> in the lab. I understand this. But when you have speciation changes, when you have organs changing, when you have to have concerted lines of evolution, all happening in the same place and time \u2013 not just one line \u2013concerted<\/i> lines, all at the same place, all in the same environment \u2026 this is very<\/i> hard to fathom.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He does not claim the Intelligent Design label because:<\/p>\n

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I do not know how to use science to prove intelligent design although some others might. I am sympathetic to the arguments on the matter and I find some of them intriguing, but the scientific proof is not there, in my opinion.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He is searching for the scientific proofs, but for macro-evolution, they just aren’t there, and no one in academia can provide them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Professor James M. Tour is a highly-credentialed chemist, and a Christian. Check this link for the list, and for his contention that there is no scientist alive today who understands macro-evolution. Tour, of course, comes at this from a chemical point of view, and has no idea how something like that can happen at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,37,38,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-evolution","category-intelligent-design","category-science"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}