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June 2025
Meeting Date: 6/30/2025
By Michael Crichton
Natural Law and the Limits of Power
Michael Crichton's thriller explores humanity's relationship with creation and the dangers of playing God. A cautionary tale about hubris, the limits of human knowledge, and our role as stewards of creation.
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Study Guide
Jurassic Park is a book about a theologian disguising himself as a mathematician. Also there are dinosaurs.
Our study guide explores how Ian Malcolm is basically doing Catholic apologetics without knowing it, what the parable of the talents has to do with genetic engineering, and why the breakdown of the sacramental worldview during the Reformation and Enlightenment leads, with terrifying logic, to a theme park full of dinosaurs eating people. We also get into the Industrial Revolution, the natural law, and why "whether they could" is never the same question as "whether they should."
This study guide is part of The Protoevangelium Collection — eleven complete guides for eleven beloved books, available as a PDF download, ebook, or paperback.
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