(WND)—James Tour, Ph.D., is a synthetic organic chemist at Rice University. He has about 650 research publications and over 200 patents. In 2015, he was inducted into the National Academy of Inventors. In 2014, he was named among the 50 most influential scientists in the world, as well as “The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds.” In 2013, he was named “Scientist of the Year” by R&D Magazine.
Recently, Dr. Tour issued a 60-day public challenge to the 10 top origin-of-life researchers, by name. His challenge was that he would take down all of his public material, which exposed the fallacies of the origins-of-life explanations used by evolutionists, if they could answer just one of the five questions presented, just one. Now, why was this 60-day challenge a significant event, which should have been covered by the national media?
The cultural quagmire of nonsense, insanity and stupidity we have drifted into can readily be argued to be the direct result of the navigation tool used to get there. We have two navigation tools to choose from, one through the lens of Scripture, i.e., a biblical lens, or the one through an evolutionary lens – and there is no question that the dominate lens now used is the misguided evolutionary one or a compromised biblical one.
The use of an evolutionary lens used to guide one through most any topic only results in navigating off-course, resulting in a complete misunderstanding of a wide variety of issues such as global warming, abortion, race, homosexuality, transgenderism, environmental issues, “Mother Earth,” the source of truth, etc. Ironically, evolution is always portrayed as science, yet its fundamental precepts are based upon fairy-tale chemical reactions.
The illiteracy of evolution only survives due to the Illusory Truth Effect, which can be defined as when repeated statements, regardless of how untrue they are, are perceived to be more truthful than those heard less frequently. It’s essentially the same definition for propaganda. In other words, most any fallacy, junk-science claim, fairy tale or misconception can be made to appear to be true if it is repeated frequently enough, especially if the opportunity to hear the contradictory facts is withheld, such as the longstanding indoctrination most are exposed to through their “education” process. As a result, this leaves those who embrace evolution prone to a wide variety of intellectual fleecing and a half-illiterate understanding of many topics as I explained here.
Well, the 60-day challenge ended in October, and Dr. Tour was successful in calling the evolutionary origins bluff. Not one of the top 10 origin-of-life researchers could present a solution to any one of the problems presented by Dr. Tour, which must be resolved for the chemistry of life’s origin to even be plausible through natural processes. As pointed out by Dr. Brian Miller, a physicist:
The failure of any origin-of-life expert to propose a solution to even one of the five problems has dire implications for the field. Tour allowed origins researchers to assume unrealistically favorable starting conditions. The hurdles are colossal for life’s constituent molecules to form in sufficiently high concentrations and purities to allow for even the slightest possibility of their linking into proteins, RNA, or complex polysaccharides. In addition, any cellular component that formed on the early Earth would have decomposed long before finding its way to the staging ground for an aspiring cell. Consequently, even if every problem were fully solved, life’s genesis would still face the insurmountable hurdle of transporting the components of life to the same microscopic environment.
YouTubers and other defenders of the secular faith of scientific materialism have confidently asserted that scientists are steadily unraveling the mystery of life’s origin. Yet Tour called on leading experts to demonstrate whether they had achieved any real progress in answering any of the most fundamental questions. None could rise to the challenge.
At some point, both the scientific community and the public will need to recognize that the lack of progress cannot be explained by a lack of serious effort by highly competent scientists but by the philosophical assumptions blinding them from seeing the truth staring them in the face. The answer to life’s origin does not reside in the fields of physics and chemistry but in the mind behind our universe.
The implications of this ongoing willful ignorance are that there is a very large variety of cultural problems that can never be solved unless the approach to them changes. When a society embraces a fairy-tale evolution, which is scientific insanity, or a compromised biblical perspective, which many pastors and Christian do, those problems will persist, grow and eventually destroy it.
Lastly, it is not intellectual suicide to embrace the literal, straight forward interpretation of Genesis 1. Unfortunately, many Christians, including pastors, have felt the necessity to do so, believing Genesis 1 is inconsistent with “scientific” observation. It’s actually just the opposite. Scientific observation, those things that are testable, observable and repeatable, consistently illustrate that there are no other explanations for origins other that that which is provided in Genesis 1.
Information science, which is non-biological and therefore requires a programmer and not some theoretical step-by-step natural process, as well as all fields of biological sciences, clearly illustrate that the mind-boggling complexity of all living things, with all their interactive and interdependent functioning parts, are completely implausible to have occurred with any step-by-step process over eons of time. Time degrades things; it does not elevate them. This is one reason why more than 1,000 Ph.D. scientists from major universities such as Harvard, Princeton, Yale, MIT, UC Berkeley, Duke, John Hopkins, UCLA, Columbia, Rice, Stanford, etc. signed the “Scientific Dissent From Darwinism” statement, saying, “We are skeptical of the claims for the ability of random mutations and natural selection to account for the complexity of life. Careful examination of the evidence for Darwinian theory should be encouraged.”
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Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
Families looking for a straightforward place to start can visit Heaven’s Harvest and use promo code Patriot for 15 percent off long-term storable food. The forecasts may yet soften, the strait may yet reopen, and we should pray they do. But hope is a fine thing to hold and a foolish thing to eat.