
#22 Bishop Robert Barron - Seeking Meaning, Finding God?
Within Reason
Is Hamlet a Reductionist Idea?
I share your intuition that something like Hamlet, the idea that the production of it could be reduced to apes trying to survive seems incredible. But actually, if you draw a long enough chain of reasoning as to why we ended up here, it can be explained in those terms. You know, when you see someone like a Maximilian Colbe, an active, extraordinary saintly heroism in the moral order and you say, hmm, that's explicable in an evolutionary terms,. I mean, I just don't buy it.
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