Welcome to the Eric Mettaxas show with your host, Eric Mettaxas.

Hey, folks, we've got something very exciting and scary for you.

Yes, we do.

For the full hour today, I don't know Yes, we do. For the full hour today.

I don't know why we're doing this for the full hour, but...

It's not even Halloween.

Yeah, it's very scary, and we're just going to do this.

We're doing a full hour of Ask Metaxus.

Now, you're probably wondering, why are you doing a full hour? And the answer is,

we don't know. That's the one question of all of these. We have no answer. It's a crazy thing.

Actually, we're doing a full hour because so many of you have sent us so many questions.

We thought we'll never get to all these questions unless we spend a full hour.

And so I don't want to do this any more than you want to, Albin, but we're going to have to do this because people are demanding to know what I think on a variety of questions.

I mean, a lot of these, look, let me just say this.

Some of these are great questions, and some of them aren't.

And we're not going to tell you which.

So let's just get going and let's see what happens. It's a crazy adventure, folks.

This first one has a lot of depth to it. In chapter 27 of is atheism dead, there's a section,

the impossible bleakness of materialism. You take on Richard Dawkins. Oh, wait, wait, I just want to say, so this is my book. So somebody is writing about Chapter 27 of my book, and the title is The Impossible Bleakness of Materialism. Okay, that's chapter 27. That's one of my favorite chapters. Oh, that's good to know. Is atheism dead? Okay. You take on Richard Dawkins, and it reminds me, he says, of the style of G.K. Chesterton's essays in which he spars with philosophical nemeses such as George Bernard

Sean, H.G. Wells, Bertrand Russell, and Clarence Darrow. Darrow. Would you say this is the result

of random chance or the product of intelligent design? And thank you, Kurt Schmidt, by the way. That's a funny question. Yeah, it is. That's a complicated, Kurt, thank you. Kurt used to write into the show a lot. Yeah, and he'd call in when we had live. And we used to do call. I think we're going to get back to that, doing the call-in thing.

I love it to do that.

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