From Atheist Jeffrey Shallit, a Telling Response on the Origin of Life

Jeffrey Shallit is a computer scientist at the University of Waterloo whom we've dealt with here on occasion before. When I heard that Rice University organic chemist James Tour (above) had visited Shallit's campus back in March to delivery the 2016 Pascal Lectures on Christianity and the University, I was curious. The most interesting of three talks was "The Origin of Life: An Inside Story." Would Jeffrey sit in and comment?

He (Shallit) did indeed write in anticipation of the event ("that...