But in general theism has an advantage you’re forgetting which is that it lets us explain everything we don’t understand with magic.
If “magic” is the answer to anything we don’t understand, then it isn’t an explanation, it’s just an abbreviation for “I don’t know”. This is hardly an advantage.
Big Bang, abiogenesis, what have you, theism has been defined in such a way that it can explain anything we can’t already explain. This means everything we don’t understand is evidence for God.
If theism can explain anything, it explains nothing. Phlogiston anyone?
I don’t have the impression that the participants did much of the relevant math. Few strategies were optimized and a considerable number weren’t sane at all. At this point, delving into the depths of truly evolutionary IPD tournaments will not yield as much insight on the whole matter as it could.
There’s a number of rules I have put together for developing successful strategies as well as theoretical observations on these kinds of tournament in general; if there is interest in them I can post them in the discussion area.