car-on-fire-stockpack-adobe-stock-167407172-stockpack-adobestock Type post Author Andrew McDiarmid Date September 20, 2025 CategoriesEvolutionEvolutionary Psychology Tagged , altruism, burning cars, Casey Luskin, culture, education, evolutionary mechanism, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary utility, genes, group selection, heroism, human behavior, kin selection, kindness, Marvel universe, podcast, reciprocal altruism, Richard Dawkins, selfish genes, strangers, teamwork Can Evolution Explain Altruism or Heroism? Andrew McDiarmid September 20, 2025 Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology 3 Casey Luskin and I share separate recent examples of people who have run towards burning cars to save complete strangers. Read More ›
1926CampMysticforGirlsHeartOtheHillsKerrvilleT Type post Author Michael Egnor Date July 9, 2025 CategoriesBioethicsEvolutionFaith & Science Tagged , bacteria, Camp Mystic, campers, counsellors, Darwinism, David Bentley Hart, evil, 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 The Challenge to Darwinism from Camp Mystic Michael Egnor July 9, 2025 Bioethics, Evolution, Faith & Science 6 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. Read More ›