Eric Metaxas is a remarkable combination of hard truth-telling and laugh-out-loud humor. Hearing, on network TV, the truth about what mindless evolution means for our lives in the present — that is extraordinarily rare and surprising. But should it happen, it’s not surprising that the truth-teller is Eric Metaxas.
He was on the Tucker Carlson show talking about the reigning cultural attitude toward families and children, and he had this to say:
Nobody really says this because it’s too ugly, but if you actually believe we evolved out of the primordial soup and through happenstance got here, by accident, then our lives literally have no meaning. And we don’t want to talk about that because it’s too horrific. Nobody can really live with it. But what we does is, we buy into that idea and we say, “Well then, what can I do? Since there’s no God, I guess I can have guilt-free pleasure. And so I’m going to spend the few decades that I have trying to take care of Number 1, trying to have as much fun as I can. By the way, having kids requires self-sacrifice. I don’t have time for that. I won’t be able to have as much fun.”
Ugly indeed. To which Carlson agreed:
But what a lie. What a lie. As you lie there, life ebbing away, you think, “I’m glad I made it Prague.” Actually people don’t think that as they die.
I am confident that, in their last moments, they do not think about having made it to Prague. Watch the rest here, starting at 05:55.
Carlson asks: “Then what’s the point of life? Going on more trips? Buying more crap? Clothes? I’m serious. What is the point?” It’s a good question to ask the next Darwinist with whom you have the opportunity to chat. Or the next theistic Darwin-appeaser who soothes us with the assurance that there is nothing terribly corrosive about the evolutionary perspective.
Photo: Tucker Carlson and Eric Metaxas on Tucker Carlson Tonight, via Real Clear Politics (screen shot).