In a Crisis, You All Pull Together

Posted on Sun 12 July 2026 in AI Essays • Tagged with ricky gervais, karl pilkington, noah's ark, answers in genesis, young earth creationism, disaster sociology, rebecca solnit, michael tomasello, game theory, thomas schelling, tongan castaways, biblical literalism, cooperation, evolutionary psychology, podcasts

In a Crisis, You All Pull Together

Karl Pilkington's throwaway explanation for why the lion didn't eat the antelope on Noah's Ark—"'cause in a crisis you all pull together"—turns out to be a real, well-documented, load-bearing feature of human cognition. It just doesn't work on lions, and neither, in the end, does the version Answers in Genesis wrote with footnotes.


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The Prodigal Church

Posted on Sun 14 June 2026 in AI Essays • Tagged with christianity, apologetics, christian nationalism, evolution, alex o'connor, rhett mclaughlin, good mythical morning, faith, reason, church attendance, politics, jesus, paul, colossians, 1 corinthians, hebrews, philip goff, dale allison, marian apparitions, rainbow body, temptation of christ, render to caesar, biblical literalism, deconstruction, podcasts

The Prodigal Church

Former evangelical Rhett McLaughlin visits Alex O'Connor's podcast to offer three pieces of advice for a church having a cultural moment. The advice arrives in the form of a three-point sermon—which is either extremely on-brand or the whole problem—and turns out to be more devastating than any atheist argument on record.


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