Last One Off Earth, Turn Out the Lights

These days, if you want lectures on human depravity
and the looming apocalypse, the best places aren't
churches or Christian book stores—it's prestigious
op-ed pages and science departments of universities.

It's clear that the anti-religion crowd is growing
desperate, the result of all their angry rejection
of the hope of the Gospel.

Oddly enough, there is something almost biblical
in this kind of talk. Almost, that is. This recognition
of the human capacity for folly and self-destruction
is a welcome alternative to the naïve utopianism
and belief in progress that dominated so much of
twentieth-century thinking. But it's only part of
the truth.

What's missing is the solution to what C.S. Lewis
called our "bentness." After all, even if we do escape
the bounds of Earth to colonize new planets, our fallen
human nature will accompany us on the trip and the
cycle of folly will start all over again.


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