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As campers from past years know, and as new campers are now to learn, it is
traditional at Camp Quest for your beloved Camp Director to each year provide
you, on the first night of camp, with certain "Challenges," and invite you to
provide answers to them on the final night of camp.
As you probably know, the S.S. Quest, the spaceship you assisted with your
advice at Camp Quest '97 arrived safely on the newly discovered planet
Questerion on November 26, 2000.
Since that time, our campers have provided important information to the
citizens of a far away planet, presumed to be Questerion, on whether the
developing civilization of that planet should be structured along lines of
science, critical inquiry, and reason, or along lines of religious belief,
mysticism, and proof by faith, as urged by their powerful emerging priesthood.
Once again we have received a communication from the grateful people of this
planet, via the Phantasmagorical Solutions Institute, through a wormhole or a
warp in space-time.
Six days following the Summer Solstice on our planet, this warp will open
again, and once again the people of Questerion have turned to the campers of
Camp Quest with an urgent request for advice.
Please provide them, in a creative form of presentation, with the best
possible answers to the following questions.
The responses from each cabin should be under ten minutes. Use rules of
fallacy and rules of evidence wherever possible.
Good luck. The time-space warp will open briefly the last night of camp, and
we can send your replies.
The future of a world is in your hands. Good luck! Here are the questions:
