James Tour Goes to Harvard (And Humiliates Himself) 

Where the pool is his own reputation

@@Ratciclefan LMAO

And then he looks back and thinks: damn, the primordial soup created life by itself. How do I square that circle?

​@@ouwebrood497this is why you don't eat goulash the night before swimming

@@ouwebrood497 lol. And look! A James Tour shaped thing has slithered out of his much loved primordial soup! I wonder if he's just really into Heinz chicken soup or summut

Right? I don't know how someone could do that, knowing how much smarter they are.

I'll take 'Out Of Their Element' for 200, Alex

I am still trying to figure out if he is bonkers or a conman, perhaps both

While I get the dig at him, I’d also like to point out that basic definitions like that are common practice in talks or round tables. This is especially true and necessary when it’s interdisciplinary functions as it’s not fair to assume everyone in the room knows everything you’re thinking. I.e. When giving a talk on vestibular function (balance) and discussing something like ocular counter-roll you should explain what it is (the eye rolling in the opposite direction of head tilt to remain roughly aligned with gravity.) Even though this is a pretty simple term with a given definition it’s still helpful to ensure everyone listening knows what you’re talking about, even in prestigious institutions where everyone in the room is assumed to be very intelligent.

@@McCarthyJohn100 Have you seen Tour's CV? He's not dumb, he's just stupid. 🤪

You've got that the wrong way around, it was Lee who was invited, by James. This whole thing was set up by the DI, and hosted by the Cambridge Faculty Roundtable on Science and Religion. This latter is an organisation whose funding sources and actual affiliation with any university seem difficult to fathom, but as far as I can tell - and I might be completely wrong - it is funded by grants from the Templeton Foundation (which appears to be an overtly Christian proselytising organisation) and despite how it presents itself it is not actually part of any university based in Cambridge MA. While I am not for a moment seeking to impugn the integrity of the Roundtable, or suggest that promoting discussions between science and faith is in itself a bad thing to do, I can't help but wonder about the motives of anyone who thought putting James Tour up to represent the Christian worldview would be a good choice. Either the Roundtable were somehow ignorant of how Tour operates and the things he says, which would show a certain lack of due diligence on their part, or they knew perfectly well what kind of individual they were dealing with. If that were the case, then two further choices present themselves: either they failed to predict what a sh1tshow he would put on, despite all the evidence to the tell them exactly how this would go, something they must surely now be regretting, or again they knew perfectly well what the outcome would be and wanted it to be that way. If I assume that they knew exactly what they were doing, I can only conclude that serious minded Christian apologists wanted to secure undeniable evidence that some of the theistic arguments being touted by the lunatic fringe of their community are indeed completely insane. If that was actually their objective, then they have certainly achieved it.

Well you got to admit - his tantrums were very entertaining! I think he suffers from a lack of self awareness and has narcissistic personality were he cannot be self critical or reflective. Its his way or no way based on his blind believe in a religious book he does not even understand himself.

If it was set up by the DI, why’d they go out of their way to invite some many people much smarter then them?

@@zafool4997Why can’t you spell?

It strikes me as a"Dinner for Schmuck's" situation

😂😂😂

Remember when he basically said he's bad at philosophy? Maybe you shouldn't talk about a concept like God if you have very little philosophical training.

Lol, precisely the definition of god of the gaps.

Even South Park can't write someone this ridiculous.

"Do you believe that we'll eventually find a naturalistic explanation?" "Yes, God did it."

The thing is, even when the room is full of like minded ppl, it's still a lions den where you have to tread carefully. James being the outlier really didn't seem to appreciate his position as the outlier. Its not only strange and hazardous, but foolish.

​@@HH-ru4bjAll he has to do to get out of the den is be honest and admit it isn't his field and retract his assertions.

@@mdug7224 No. He has passed that stage, as he bas been so utterly rude. If he went straight and honest, they would tear him apart.

He's not speaking to the room full of phd's. He's there just to gather sound bites for his fans that he can then spin and repackage for his goofball congregation of nutters.

@@mdug7224His ego won’t let him do that

He's been doing that for more than 2 years now 😂

You know he's going to list this on his resume, boasting about talking at Harvard.

a year dont underestimate the tour hell do it immediately lol

I mean before it even happened he posted "response to my challenge" then after the event like a little ogre he posted the video and titled it "origin of life solved?" As in look I'm right! Intentional and typical misguiding by our buddy James

Yeah, honestly this is the context in which "no platforming" makes sense. If someone's batshit crazy and not qualified, don't legitamize them on a major platform for the sake of "debate" or "representing both sides".

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Where in the video is this found... sounds hilarious!!

@@email2hector 38:47

@@email2hector 38:50 And yes, it is hilarious just how small and insignificant a person can become.

​@@DarkOmegaMK2thank you for the time stamp!

Just take moment to realize how different the professors in this video are from the characters in God's Not Dead 4 or whatever evangelical off-to-college drama portrays them.

I would have loved to be at the table and just listen to their discussion.

I just love how they said in polite scientist talk that he's an idiot.

Very spot on. I remember when I had to do lectures, as part of my PhD in front of a bunch of engineering students. It was very much the same thing, as one tries to dumb it down.

@@Jack908r Well, they didn't, though. Cronin was very openly and clearly calling for civil discourse even when we need to be critical of one another. I think interpreting this as secretly calling people stupid is a bit much. We should listen to the words he actually says, not what we hope they 'really' mean.

​@@joshuaprayI agree to a certain degree. But some of them very much called him stupid in a polite, educated way.

@@eliasroflchopper3006 Wrong, yes. Very wrong and very misguided, yes. But stupid? No, I don't think that was what any of them were saying. A clever/stupid binary is not how academics and professionals conceptualise challenges and discourse. And this is preceisely what they were reiterating because that binary is most definitely how James Tour conceptualises challenges and discourse.

I'll admit I held out some brief hope that he wouldn't just obfuscate and lie to their faces. But he really he is just that shameless.

So, I hate to bring this up or widen this gap, but Tour is actually an engineer - a chemical engineer - but an engineer, nonetheless. I see him as another data point on the Salem Hypothesis.

@@BlackCoyote66 his degrees are in organic chemistry, not chemical engineering. He is a Professor of Material Science and Nanotechnology (at Rice), which is a branch of engineering. He’s a good scientist within his field and no one should diminish that. The problem with Tour is that he fancies himself to be more than he is and it just makes him look like an ass (nice way to put it).

He forgot how to talk with scientists. He was too busy golfing with buddies in DI

That's the thing real scientists know how to talk to each other even when they don't agree with each other. While people like tour think if they shut more people will listen to them, When it r Just makes them look bad.

TBH James doesn't know what a driver's licence is. When he took his test he rode off a cliff screaming, "Gravity isn't real!" under his helmet they found aluminum foil...

Having pooped at a dinner table once while attempting to make it to a bathroom… yeah he absolutely embarrassed himself worse. I’d be shocked someone like this wouldn’t be crying at least in anger over how much he can’t be taken seriously.

Are we 100% sure he didn't shit himself?

That might have actually helped him. At least he might have gotten a little sympathy.

He would have said that was a miracle- as he doesn't often shit his pants at the dinner table!

Isn’t it amazing how polite they are but in James’s videos he’s so mean and hateful?! And he’s supposed to be the righteous one in this group….

Or are they calling him an idiot in the most polite ways possible 😂

@@SnappyWasHere See that's the thing. Few things will make people as vile, evil and rude as religion.

Oh, I heard them calling him an idiot, a liar, and a religious fanatic. They were just using different words. And yes, this was painfully embarrassing. 🤢

I don't feel embarrassed for him, he had it coming.

i am both

Real-life applications often help incentivise students.

Believe it or not I actually Started a second major in chemistry. So I can understand origin of life research better.

Iam both, Did biology at school could of done higher where I would of probably covered some biochemistry. I would love to hear James your against a Christian who studies biology and evolution, 😂 be a more fair argument as both have belief in a god Only difference 1 agrees on evolution the other doesn't. As religion against non religion is a rather unbalanced debate When 1s religious beliefs shouldn't be in the question.

I have learned _a lot_ of chemistry and biology out of curiosity. _A lot._ But none of that makes me laugh at JT. The time it takes me to get one person up to speed and _really_ understand the issues, he can get 1000 people on board with his nonsense. It does not make me laugh.

RIGHT???

This made me laugh far more than most of these comments.

I just have one tweak: Put James in a room full of educated people, and you get 1 guy yelling “CLueLeSs!!” at everyone else who are just rolling their eyes.

😂😂😂😂

​@@cuzned1375 so true

Ouch!!

The change in Tour’s demeanor from his videos and his debate with you to the round table and panel shown here reminds me of a political cartoon I saw decades ago that stuck in my head. It was published when Ronald Reagan nominated the far-right Christian fanatic legal theorist and Nixon henchman (and, incidentally, owner of the Second Ugliest Beard in The World™️ after Yasser Arafat’s face fungus) Robert H. Bork to the Supreme Court. The first panel portrayed Bork as a massive, slavering bulldog with teeth bared, barking “BORK! BORK BORK BORK! BORK BORK!” The second showed the same creature in front of the Senate Judiciary committee, hiding its teeth and saying “Mew?” as if hoping to be mistaken for a kitten.

And he showed up, that is pure gold right there.

@@ExpatZ266comedy genius Tour.

​@@ExpatZ266 Nah, he had no choice. Tour had been challenging (begging) big bad Lee to be invited to any kind of dialogue for years by that point; to decline after all of that chest-thumping would be more embarrassing than being clowned.

It’s funny how the petty egos of both men were on display for all.

@@lsmith869 We can see your comment history, so don't pretend you're not biased towards Tour with that "both men bad" crap.

Almost all unbelievers in this comment section know that you belong to a minority and Jimmy Thinner Than Thong to a minority of christians. Thanks for speaking out.

​​@@marknieuweboer8099 Eh. It's _much_ closer to half and half in my experience. Still appreciate his comment, though. 🙂‍↕️

@ Ivor: it depends on the country.

If you follow science, why do you believe in man made fairy tales?

Not even poor undergrad student. Like a poor sap who is writing his wedding vows last minute

😂yes

But it's a lie he wants to believe, and his belief and sunk costs run so deep that it creates an enormous amount of dissonance ... so much that his supposed knowledge of being wrong usually only rises to a thin, niggling doubt or sense of discomfort or moorlessness. I don't necessarily think that's enough to attribute to someone real knowledge of their error. I think that the capacity for doublethink is very real, even if it's not really exactly the same process as we otherwise ordinarily call genuine thinking.

Well said! I quit giving passes a long time ago because people know what the hell they are doing!

@Apostate1970 I don't think he actually believes in what he is saying. I'm pretty sure it is all about the money. As lo g as money comes in, he will continue to lie.

@HoneyGirl68 100% Agree, I'm tired of religion trying to blur the lines between fact and fantasy. "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"~ Sir Arthur Clarke

@@wes5629I think that a large part of it for for Tour is ego. He’s sunk so deep into this, to admit being out of his depth would be impossible for his massive ego to cope with.

Flatearthers were also offered space flights for free already. Imagine when a normal worker class person is dreaming to travel to space and freaks get them for their attention.

That’s true and depressing.

James Tour is not a Young Earth Creationist.

@@j.athanasius9832doesn’t matter Tour is still a raging pathetic fraud and is evidently proven to be so multiple times

@@j.athanasius9832 how can you be sure? he said he believes scripture that says that earth is 6000 years old so he might be.

Seriously I think the Willard Preacher would have more success here if only because he knows he’s a grifter. Like, a theologian literally did debate him and just completely tore him apart…

This wasn't organised *by* Harvard, it was simply held *at* Harvard in front of an invited audience, and arranged by an organisation that promotes dialogue between science and faith with the purpose of converting adherents of the former to the latter.

@@PeerAdder So James Tour was essentially batting for the home team and still lost? That makes it so funny imo.

And babbles about how he "loves Jesus SO MUCH...."🤮🤮🤮

She should have sprayed him with the "Bullshit Repellant".

@@galileog8945Bullshit repellant? Hang on… New Bullshit B-Gone! Body Protectant. 8-hour protection from all pseudoscience. *Does not stop mosquitoes. EDIT: This is supposed to be a joke, and to be frank, I’m not sure if it’s good…

She was definitely trolling and I am all here for it

Love a fellow neurodivergent queen :D

i love her for that such a queen

considering the lvl of narcism he displayed elsewhere.. and how its confirmed such things makes the persons twist stuff in their head as ''not praise of me , impossible! must meant something else'' and the 'investment expectations' of the cult he desperately suckles nourishment for said narcism from.. aka ''salvage some fking reputation so we can parade that as a reason to care about your words supporting ouer dogma!'' i be ready to bet cash on some serious twisting of this.. be it quote mining the others words , or spinning tours proper ''subdued'' manners as ''oh see he so humble polite christian ,ooooobviously that nefarious 'youtuber' must done something exceptionally annoying to rile him up.. so clearly all his decelerations as 'expert' that there must be a god and ouer god and that hallucinations of it is direct communications not signs of delirium'' etc etc not sure if it be happening shortly after this or kept in the 'sleve' to be dragged up a year from now or so

I am hypothesising that he will come out saying, "They were talking nonsense at the table and ganging up on me, not even letting me speak." "I stayed quiet because I didn't want to upset anyone."

He's copyright striking everybody that reviews the debate. So yeah, he's trying to sweep his humiliation under the rug. He can't let his own garbage and contradictory rhetoric get in the way of his narcissistic personality disorder

That’s not a feeling, it’s accurately predicting the future 😂

@@Chemasaurus😂😂😂 no way

Yooo I watch ur vids

Seconded, I'm a Marty watcher.

Oven mitt time!

Of course!

Fxck. Stupid youtube unsubbed me for no reason!!

Yeah far to English and polite. From an Englishman.

@@byrnemeister2008 Nah. They are just too self-aware to make his mistakes.

@@byrnemeister2008 i think that's just the being an academic thing tbh. he's actually an expert and has a lifetime of experience in systematically dismantling arguments. he doesn't need to shout or insult like tour does. the science can speak for itself

@@byrnemeister2008 Yes, but it has some unforgettable charm to it and in that way is far more rude because it will hunt James forever.

He's also got really good hair. I'm jealous.

Lord have mercy

Nice Symbionese Liberation Army pfp

@@godofmath1039 cheers, it was a toss up between them and the RAF logo, that shooter and star looks cool. but a 6 headed hydra won. i am impressed a person recognised it. free symbionia! lol.

Testament*

They don't even realize how their modern religion is the product of cultural and theological EVOLUTION, merging of ideas and people, etc.

Retards are gonna tard

He was SO CLOSE, but then he remembered that he had to keep those DI-dollars rolling in.

If only he knew what the apostle Paul actually believed and meant Christianity to be.

There is a lot of behavior I see where that is the only logical explanation I can give myself to achieve mental peace.

Persecution complex is a creationist's trademark fetish.

If you go to his posting of the event, you'll see thousands of Christian comments about how "proud" they are of James. They think he dominated Lee and "won" the debate. The best one was: "James talked science. Lee talked religion." Haha, it's obvious that the more James gets trashed by scientists, the more he gets support of his following. So it's more profitable for James to carry on with his mission.

Cuck

​@@michaelsbeverly Religious people using the word religion as a negative connotation is by far one of the most hilarious pieces of irony ever.

Physicists are scientists..

Yeah I was cringing every time he started talking about how much he loves Jesus. Does he really have that little self-awareness, like read the room dude 😂😂😂

Emphasis on _almost_ 😉

I had to stop within seconds of his deranged presentation starting. I can't imagine how uncomfortable it must have been to see it in person.

IKR? It all boils down to the anti-science movement's desperate attempt to push a false equivalency -- namely, that the scientific community is nothing more than a "priesthood" that preaches some weird kind of godless religion, one that is supposedly trading entirely on faith in a dogmatic system regardless of evidence or results. Funny thing is, it's always the scientific community that seems to have the far more reliable track record when it comes to following the evidence & producing interesting, valuable results....

Yah I literally can't watch his interactions

Agree so much. The amount of schadenfreude is simply stunning

That is true, but Dave is showing us on RU-vid the papers that disprove the DI and Tour.

His congregation will spin it in any way that is favorable. If they ignore Tour, Tour wins. If they invite him, Tour wins. What's more important is that less radical Tour followers begin to question the man, so only raving lunatics remain.

We have to believe in exposing lies…..we have to.

​@@AnthropomorphicTrilobiteAgreed. That the devout followers will take anything that happens as victory is basically set in stone. But this communication is valuable for reaching those who are watching his content because they're interested in the debate, or questioning.

I really gotta wonder what to do with these people who are nothing but calcium from frontal to occipital. What do you do with these incorrigible bio-robots?

100% this. It's a pre-emptive "I told you so" disguised as an olive branch.

The same for me. It was a long time ago I cringed that badly.

i think tour would agree with the last part of your comment at least.

​@@d3rduck Lol. How else would he have gotten through that... "discussion" 😆

Yeah, he's a pretty cool guy. I'm interested in what he has to say even more after this video.

@@eitan461 Mystify that audience? Lol! Good luck with that. Cronin was amongst peers. This wasn't a meeting about going into science nitty gritty. It was largely about approach to scientific research and Tour looked like an idiot out of his depth.

​@@eitan461 Good for them to not debate about science with Tour. Might have been an accidental character assassination for him.

@@eitan461 Well, I got out of it that Cronin is a decent, real scientist and Tour is a fundamentalist lunatic masquerading as a scientist.

James Tour is very ignorant!

It's bewildering, because many of his points are basically those of layman creationists, and you would expect someone in his position to know better. It was honestly baffling to me hearing Tour basically saying that functionality space is the inverse of sequence space of any biopolymer. (Aka "of every functional enzyme there exists only one functional version")

It's painful and laughable at the same time. Like piles.

I must admit, I burst out laughing at his "the molecules in my mind are fighting against moving toward life" (15:25). So he's backing his opinion up with not just ascribing agency to prebiotic molecules, but a goal of not becoming life, and that's his excuse for claiming they wouldn't do it. With this view of molecules as cartoon characters, I'm reminded of much better media like "Il était une fois... la Vie".

I am not a layperson on these topics and I kind of have to calm myself and let it go, and make sure I am taking my meds on time, in order to cope with the world in which these sorts of people exist.

Honestly I don’t find it that annoying anymore. He clearly knows he’s saying absolute horseshit, so there’s just no reason to try and prove him wrong. All that really achieves is giving him more attention like he wants

Yup. I believe it was a conspiracy. Cronin and co. planned to teach Jimmy Thinner Than Thong a harsh lesson. And they did. While watching this video I constantly haf to remind myself what an awful liar he is, or I would have pitied him.

perfect comparison. Both pretend their farting is of academic or judicial value, but the only thing it does is stink.

​@@kamion53You're sure it's a fart. I see soiled diapers.

Much better than my analogy. Bravo.

or taliban with no arm or leg solo attempt seal team six

@@lighter412 Yeah, propagandised much are ya? And here I thought we had an intelligent audience hanging out.

James Tour deserves to be part of a psychological study analyzing the behavior of a narcissistic pathological liar in the wild.

Even better than that, DI paid them

Stupid.

I would say at least 90% of flat earthers are also creationists...and chemtrailers... And anti vaxxers etc etc.

🤔... it's, at best, a toss up 🤷‍♂️ 😆😆😝

I still want to give it to the flat earthers since essentially anyone with any level of education ought to be able to demonstrate for themselves that the earth isn't flat.

Taken to their level, these people wear their ignorance like a badge of honor. Remember, faith allows you to believe in something without evidence, logic or reason. The perfect shield for the ignorant.

​​@@ShonMardaniRan out of science? What?... What!? 😂?

Except that’s not even true.

Yeah that's not what he was saying at all

@@Justjay114 Not intentionally but he is still saying it.

He was saying that if we say we've cured cancer, nobody would go into it, not if we actually cured it. But that's still nonsense. Nobody except a snake oil salesman would say we've cured cancer when we actually haven't.

Even if/when different cancers get cures or nearly cures through treatment, cancer research will never stop. It would belike stopping disease research after we discovered penicillin, being like oh well nothing more here shut it down. I hate people who claim the whole cancer ccure conspiracy

The incapability and refusal to adapt his particular theology. He has emotionally invested too much in it.

The type of uniquely zealous version of religion that takes place in America.

Or like a little kid at the small table during Thanksgiving while the grown ups talk on the dinner table

...a table so small, there was only one seat...@@cuddlecakes7153

What an awful analogy

Seeing him at the round table was the best part of the video 😂. It was an excellent illustration of how far from being part of scientific community he is. It is also now available for billions of people to watch and rewatch. I wonder if he understands at all the negative effects this event had on him.

I guess 86 ppl, and counting, reckon different @@michaeltudyk8660

Religious delusion.

the typical presumption of religious fundamentalists...mixed with a pinch of narcissism...the guy is the epitome of a religious dogmatists...you can clearly see where it would lead if such types established themselves in the field of science...a society has to be extremly wary of such types...exposing this guy really is a service to the community

The word you are looking for is dishonest

Narcissism is a hell of a personality trait. 😂

The intelligence gap between the two is insane.

​@@eliasroflchopper3006 not to mention the gap in temper and insanity

Yeah, dave is done and should be exiled

All while waving a piece of chalk between him and the blackboard

Lol but dont forget in those AHHHHHHHHH!s God is in the gaps! Tour is a dangerous fool

You're forgetting, "CLUELESS!!!!"

@@hendyrulzYou mock him like ur not blindly following the faith of this dude whos bird feeding the info to you. Dave is like tours god to you

Unfortunately I doubt tour will change at all. When you are one of god's special people you know you are always right.😂

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@@thedarknessthatcomesbefore4279 and money, dont forget money

"chirality-induced spin selectivity" must be a really dumb pointless thing given how often he goes back to it.

Philosophy used properly is a beautiful thing to watch.

The guy is Peter Kreeft, a popular Christian apologist and writer.

sometimes I think Dave is too mean. Then I watch what he covers and rethink my opinion.

😂

More like a dog owner scolding his dog.

W manderbolt

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​@@brysonsteadham9029 mandelbrot* ? but yes big w

Seriously. We're going to get our definitions straight so we are all on the same page as to what we're referring to...? Where does this guy get off?

My worst nightmare. Hopefully not being a fraud will decrease my chances.

What's the opposite of imposter syndrome?

I'm pretty sure I'm looked at like that in school lol XD

​@@gearwhizzIt's basically Dunning Kruger, eg total confidence in one's own ineptitude. Imposter syndrome in reverse.

Dunning kreuger effect​@@gearwhizz

My thoughts exactly. And probably every academic in the room held the same sentiment. Everyone there knew this guy is full of shit

I wasn't sure about her question... That's because Tour was probably loath to say he wouldn't put ANY of that money towards abiogenisis research as he would consider it a waste of time as it is a "SCAM".

​@@jemborgbut he's already lying about everything, why not lie about this too? I tell you why: because he has no idea how to push this research forward. It's obvious.

@@eliasroflchopper3006 does he even believe in Evolution?

@@jemborg no and that's the point.

" I hope some of Jim's followers find this and consider things carefully." - They are all uneducated fools, so they don't understand anything of this.

@@freddan6fly Yeah, "hope" is really doing a lot of work there for sure. I guess what I really meant was that videos like this give people a window to reality just in case they're able and willing to look out, and I'm glad for that.

yea the last one's kinda impossible i'd say. most if not all of his followers are religious who are incapable of accepting the reality. as dave said the sole purpose of these people is to inject religious beliefs in science which they miserably fail at

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@@freddan6fly I've checked the comments on Tour's full video of this, and they're all glazing him up and pretending he actually destroyed Cronin. It's nothing new, comments of debate-related stuff will ALWAYS be biased towards the uploader, but always a little disappointing to see again.

He’s Sideshow Bob eternally stepping on the rake.

​@@willy480able😂

I’d feel sorry for him, but he does it to himself. He could end it very quickly.

Same, but then I remember it’s self inflicted and willful science denial and then I don’t feel bad.

​@ShonMardani nobody likes you

And James tour’s fans still think he won😂

He'd lose an argument with himself!

​@@user-vm3dd4yd2l"James wrecks all the Harvard nerds" is probably what his audience is saying. 😂

@@MatthewBarannah, they’re being so fucking quiet now lmao

​@@familyshield6405 Hi James! I know that you wanted him to sketch out some magic counterspell sigils on the board, but he brought along all the research that proved your chemistry question was already answered. I know that pageantry is fun and all, but if Dave had scribbled out the entire diagram (which would have eaten all of his response time that was better spent directly showing all the research that you're ignoring) would you not have just moved the goalposts? I know that what you wanted was a classic wizard's duel, but Dave did post a followup video discussing your complaints, and showing the more or less irrelevant chemistry equation you were fishing for, as well as explaining yet more ways you willfully missed the point. I'm sorry. Truly I am. But you have to have noticed at some point that it's not the 1970's anymore. We're not clueless about possible ways life began without the need for a Creator. Can you at least concede that such a thing is possible, even if you can't wrap your mind around it? You've already accepted your religion, which demands you accept a lot of stuff that is frankly impossible for the world as we know it. Life arising of its own accord involves far less 'because I said so', and if your God is responsible, big deal. It does not matter to the research going on in this field.

Or busy giving cancer and Aids to babies.

Like the notion that a "top flat erfer" should be sent to space to see it for themselves, only to have them _still_ claim "CGI!! PSY-OP!!"

@@pureflix8086this. lmao, its pointless.

​@@pureflix8086Yes....but that would still be *hilarious* to watch.

@@timm7617 sure... except scientists who actually work in the field(s) tour dismisses are shown here, bouncing him around like a beachball while tour quite literally sits there like a silent movie through most of it, only opening his mouth to get glassy-eyed about jesus to try to garner sympathy. 🤦🏻‍♂️

OH but remember...only dumb youtuber's use a script, who said that...OH RIGHT...James Tour

The sunk cost fallacy can rob you blind, and its avarice knows no bounds.

I genuinely think Dr. Jimbo thinks he's being tested by his god and if he just stays the course he'll eventually come out the other side as some kind of hero/martyr. Which is horrible (dear Jim's god please stop, Jim), and also amazing (dear Jim's god please never stop, Jim). Ahh, the duality of man. I hate science deniers and the damage they do, but man I sure do love laughing at them!

It's his sole gold mine vein. If he relinquished it, he's kaput.

Yeah, blatant and unfalsifiable gaslighting. Typical of someone manipulative like Jimmy

💯

No I love making these. Very satisfying.

Good cuz we love watching it!! @@ProfessorDaveExplains

​@@ProfessorDaveExplains then please, never stop making these! They're pure gold.

😂​@@ProfessorDaveExplains

@@ProfessorDaveExplains they very gud indeed

I read that as "James Tour humiliated by The Simpsons" and I am all here for that!

If Dave can make merch our of a lying charlatan, I say good for Dave. I say buy it and spread it around. Show just how much the DI and AIG lie and manipulate. I am a truck driver who really doesn't have any need to watch Dave's tutorial's but I still became a member just to watch him destroy charlatans and liars with plain and simple facts even I can understand. KEEP HITTING THEM HARD DAVE!!!

@@pheonixkahn I totally agree! We must not tolerate people like James and the fools at the DI, they must be countered at all costs.

I had that moment when learning sign language. But it motivated me to change my major because I wanted to *really* know how to sign

that's another thing, isn't it, they are always indignant when you remind them of what they have been saying

I think he feels it, he seems uncomfortable for much of the event. But he also knew that his clueless followers would end up applauding his verbal tapdancing no matter how ridiculous he seemed to the educated people at the event, so I guess it was worth it for him.

Narcissism is a helluva drug. Despite his closing remarks, I can almost guarantee you James walked out of there thinking that he is right and everyone else there is wrong. That’s what it does to you

I feel physical pain.

@@jackhouse1618 I got the same feeling. He looks really on edge.

RIGHT?! I want to curl into a ball just thinking about it!

To be fair, he had a lot of help from James himself ^^

Tour doesn't need anyone else to make him look like an idiot. He's already a natural at it!

Dave doesn't need that much skill to show that James is a moron. Nobody actually needs much skill in ro do that when James is already doing that himself already.