Rachel Adams

Rachel Adams was the CSC Special Projects Coordinator and assistant to the CSC Associate Director John West. She received her BA in journalism and the classical liberal arts and worked for the public relations team at Patrick Henry College. She was a reporter for Pamplin Media and her writing has appeared in WORLD Magazine and other publications.

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Infinity War, Human Exceptionalism, and the Ultimate Resource

Rachel Adams
June 11, 2018
On this episode of ID the Future, host Robert Crowther talks with Rachel Adams, special projects coordinator at Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, about Thanos, the arch-villain from the Marvel blockbuster Avengers: Infinity War, and a couple of real-life thinkers, Eric Pianka and Paul Ehrlich, who share the villain’s view that the world would be a better place with far fewer humans. Thanos, Pianka, and Ehrlich appear to share a materialistic view of the human person, one that ignores the inherent dignity and worth of every person as well as humanity’s capacity to create solutions and new resources, growing the resource pie. Thanks to this, life is not a zero-sum game. The human species is, as Julian Simon put it, the ultimate resource. Please consider …