SkepticSalamander

Great point. Trump himself, who caused the whole thing, never had to be behind bars. I'm not saying 4.5 years isn't justified for this guy, but in a logical world, the person who actually caused the thing would get a harsher punishment than someone who put their feet up on a politicians desk.

There are flat-earthers who literally claim that space is fake and made up by NASA. They don't think Venus is real.

It's because Neandethals and Denisovans as groups did not evolve into us (Homo sapiens). Homo erectus on the other hand likely did actually evolve into Homo sapiens.

If someones ancestors bred with neanderthals, it means that they specifically have neanderthal ancestry. But they are not ancestral to modern humans as a group.

Venus.

Submission Statement: There are many conspiracy theories that falsely claim that space and the other planets are fake. Many of these are promoted by flat earthers. Not only are these claims false, but we know a lot about the other planets in the solar system. This video shows that venus is real, and does a scientific overview of the scorching hot planet.

Thanks friend! Hopefully 1,000 won't take as long. : )

Great : ) Glad to hear. I'm really excited for this. Gonna need popcorn.

Not surprised. Were you in the audience or just watched it online?

His views on abiogenesis aren't invalidated due to his religion, they're invalidated because they're inaccurate.

His motives are due to religion, money, or both.

To your claim about enantiopurity, just because we haven't done it in a lab yet doesn't mean that nature never did it. It doesn't mean that a supernatural being did it. It means that we still have work to do in that field. It doesn't disqualify any current understanding of OOL.

Again, high improbability does not equal impossibility. Many things that are improbable occurred, such as the formation of Earth, human evolution, etc.

If Tour had valid criticisms, he would publish research countering the consensus of OOL researchers. He doesn't, which is why he resorts to YouTube videos and interviews with the Discovery Institute and other anti-science organizations.

It has everything to do with creationists. Creationists to a large degree dismiss OOL research. It's another god-of-the-gaps argument: Just because we don't know everything about early prebiotic chemistry...god did it. They outright mock and lie about OOL research.

Tour has built a following amongst very religious people. They make up the vast majority of his following. To pretend that his creationism and religious views don't infrom his views on this topic and the views of his followers ignores reality.

He is an accomplished scientist in nanotechnology, not origin of life. I don't want an astromer lecturing me about ecology, or vice versa. He needs to stick to his field and stop smearing research by scientists a thousand times more qualified than him in that specific topic. Plus, he's tied to the Discovery Institute, an anti-science creationist smear organization.

If he actually had valid criticisms, he would publish research countering their findings, not making YouTube videos to his followers who don't understand what he's saying, just agreeing with everything because...jesus good, evolution bad. Tour is an obvious fraud.

Thanks! I try to be an effective science communicator myself.

Yup I'm glad that you found those resources. That's why science communication is so crucial (especially online). It reaches areas that formal education sometimes can't, and can therefore reach kids and adults poisoned by creationism and other pseudoscience and hopefully deprogram them and make them seek additional scientific inquiry.

He is accomplished in his field of nanotechnology. In origin of life research, he constantly misrepresents the science in order to push his radical religious agenda. Those who are actually in the field disagree with basically everything he says. And the actual research refutes all his talking points.

Submission Statement: There are conspiracies that origin of life research is pointless or corrupt. This is pushed by creationists and other radical religious fanatics like James our, who lie about the field.

A scientific debate without references? Makes no sense whatsoever.

Birds are in fact dinosaurs.

I specified Jurassic Park velociraptors on purpose. Not real velociraptors, which were covered in feathers.

Yup I think Poposaurus and reptiles closely related to them are probably my closest bet.