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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