Jeff, thank you for sharing these!
To add to the thread, while Dr. Tour does focus more of his discussion around the origin of life, he does also have informed input regarding evolution as well found here:
James M Tour Group » Evolution/Creation
To quote Dr. Tour:
Dr. Tour does go on to acknowledge the work done in support for universal common descent, and there is support for this, but he also makes this remark:
As such, we need to recognize that any presentation of arguments suggesting macroevolution is 'fact', that it is observable, that only the fundamentalist dimwit cannot understand or turns a blind eye to such overwhelming evidence is both improper and completely fallacious--such are arguments made dogmatically from a complete lack of actual knowledge / experience (though certainly not a lack of faith in believing macroevolution is true--and the same goes for the creationist, it is by faith that the Genesis account is taken as written, that God supernaturally created the major body plans--the 'kinds' that reproduce after their kind). As Dr. Tour has indicated in the videos and in his own personal view of the creation/evolution discussion, no biologist (let alone any other discipline of science) has even the slightest clue of how to create life, nor an understanding of the mechanisms that would establish the major body plans--as he states "they [biologists] have never made anything, all they have ever done is from kit, a kit made by chemists."
Dr. Tour is admittedly less clear as to the time horizons in Genesis... and that is fine, he acknowledges the clarity of the text; however, chooses to remain less committed on this point.
It would be good for all of us who enjoy debating creation / evolution to re-watch the videos, there is a good deal of insight about what is actually known, how this is presented to the public (and fellow colleagues / scientists), and the [adverse] effect it has in the way the knowledge is falsely portrayed: