Summary of Will Storr's The Unpersuadables

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#1 The town of Devil was hosting a talk by John Mackay, an Australian who had traveled far to give the audience his book The Bible, which was filled with visions, violence, and lore. The audience was asked to choose between Darwin and God.

#2 The town of Gympie, Australia, is named after a local tree called the gympie-gympie. It is a place of early closing and close community. The locals know the town as Gympie, an Aboriginal word meaning Devil.

#3 John Mackay, a Christian evangelist, has come to north Australia to give a talk on the obsession that has run through his life like a burning wick: evolution and all the reasons it is wrong. To accept evolution is to call the entire Bible a lie.

#4 The Gympie Christian church is a small, local congregation that believes in creationism. When I attended their meeting, I was presented with a six-thousand-year-old news report about the world being perfect and without pain or struggle until Eve ate the apple with Adam.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 4, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822529847

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The town of Devil was hosting a talk by John Mackay, an Australian who had traveled far to give the audience his book The Bible, which was filled with visions, violence, and lore. The audience was asked to choose between Darwin and God.

#2

The town of Gympie, Australia, is named after a local tree called the gympie-gympie. It is a place of early closing and close community. The locals know the town as Gympie, an Aboriginal word meaning Devil.

#3

John Mackay, a Christian evangelist, has come to north Australia to give a talk on the obsession that has run through his life like a burning wick: evolution and all the reasons it is wrong. To accept evolution is to call the entire Bible a lie.

#4

The Gympie Christian church is a small, local congregation that believes in creationism. When I attended their meeting, I was presented with a six-thousand-year-old news report about the world being perfect and without pain or struggle until Eve ate the apple with Adam.

#5

Mackay patrols his merchandise, books, DVDs, and fossils and crystals. He is constantly winning public debates, and he believes that evolution has been observed but not while it’s been happening.

#6

I have interviewed many people who believe in weird things, and I enjoy writing about them. I find it comforting to write about people who defy the ordinary, because it makes me feel like I am not alone in my weirdness.

#7

I have never met anyone whose every single thought I agreed with. I know I am not right about everything, but I am still convinced that I am. I am left with the consolation of my righteousness, which is all I have.

#8

I have watched as these personal battles have manifested in the wider world. I have never studied evolution, but I have simply put my trust in the people that culture has directed me towards.

#9

Mackay’s story is one of subservience to the contrary will within him that he calls God. He sacrificed his life’s ambition to be a scientist when he felt called to become a teacher.

#10

The Creation Science Foundation was founded in 1979 by Mackay and Ham, and it is still in operation today. They believe that the fossilized trees in their museum are evidence of creationism.

#11

The idea that all the trees were knocked over during the flood doesn’t make sense. You would expect to