The Challenge to Darwinism from Camp Mystic

bacteria, bioethics, Camp Mystic, campers, counsellors, Darwinism, David Bentley Hart, evil, Evolution, Faith & Science, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Good, Gottfried Leibnitz, group selection, innocent suffering, Ivan Karamazov, kin selection, Lisbon earthquake, mourning, natural selection, PZ Myers, reciprocal altruism, summer camp, The Doors of the Sea, theodicy, Voltaire
One of the most tragic events I can remember happened this July 4th — a flash flood killed nearly 200 people, 27 of whom were children and staff at Camp Mystic. Source
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Darwinism, Storytelling, and the Futurist ET Myth

2001: A Space Odyssey, Africa, Bible, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Culture & Ethics, Darwinian materialism, domino, English literature, Flannery O’Connor, futurist ET myth, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, H.G. Wells, human brain, Human Origins, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jacques Derrida, John Milton, John Updike, Michael Keas, monolith, quantum leap, Robert Ardrey, Roland Barthes, science fiction, Stanley Kubrick, Texas, The Territorial Imperative, The Time Machine, Unbelievable?, weapons
The implication is clear: the alien monolith has somehow bequeathed to him and his little tribe a sudden quantum leap in brain power. Source
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