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Today we're going to talk about the hurricane that has hit Jamaica and how that country is recovering.

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Welcome to Break you this week. We're so glad you're with us. Stick around. Welcome to Breakpoint this week. From the Coulson Center for Christian Worldview, I'm Maria

Bear alongside John Stone Street, president of the Coulson Center. John, I thought of you this week.

I've been watching the news about Hurricane Melissa making landfall historically in Jamaica. This is the worst storm on record

to hit the island. And, you know, there have been some horrible reports already of the damage

done there. And I know you spent some time down there. It's been quite a while. I know you're

quite old at this point, John. So much older than me.

But tell me about what you remember about Jamaica and its readiness or lack of readiness for

something like this. Is this as scary as it sounds? Well, I'm sure it's a different place than when I was

there 20 or so years ago, but I did spend several months there right out of college. I did some

coaching of basketball and other things.

I lived in Montego Bay, which those are the images right now.

There's a couple other cities that got hit pretty hard, but the Montego Bay images are pretty brutal.

And the area is just kind of right around there.

And I mean, you know, listen, it's something we've talked about before, that it's, there's two sides of these kinds of conversations. One is the idea that we are in control as human beings over the world around us, which has been kind of the whole scientific enterprise since the modern world, you know, not just that science is the act of discovering what's in the

world, but actually controlling. That's really more of an illusion than anything else. And it's

something that we get reminded of. We used to have a colleague at the Colson Center that would say,

you know, we live here by permission of nature who can rescind that permission at any time.

And when you talk about a coastal area and you talk about a place that's just absolutely incredible.

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