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Shocking Security Failures in the Attempted Trump Assassination Attempt, Deep State? Eric Metaxas and John Zmirak. The Theory of Everything Documentary, American Revolution Book
- Shocking Security Failures in the Attempted Trump Assassination Attempt
- Eric’s New Book on the American Revolution
- New Documentary ‘The Theory of Everything’
Today On The Eric Metaxas Show, Eric talks with John Zmirak about the latest attempt on President Trump’s life, the shocking security failures, Tommy Robinson, the rise of political violence, and why parts of the left now seem to justify violence against their enemies. They also discuss Eric’s new book on the American Revolution, the difference between America’s founding and the French Revolution, and why Darwinian materialism leaves young people vulnerable to destructive ideologies.
John Zmirak
Apr 29 2026
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A Film That Could Change a Student’s Life
April 24, 2026By John Zmirak
A new film from the Discovery Institute, The Story of Everything, opens nationwide on April 30. Based on philosopher of science Stephen Meyer’s The Return of the God Hypothesis, the film’s ambition matches its title. It scrutinizes scientific materialism’s claims at every pivotal point, marshaling physicists to show the theistic implications of the Big Bang. Those implications so troubled scientists such as Fred Hubble and Albert Einstein that for years they refused to accept the evidence that kept trickling in to prove that the universe had a definite beginning, as the Book of Genesis teaches.
If I had high school or college-aged children, I’d be dragging them to see this film.
Surveys show a 70 percent drop-off in religious practice during college, even at many faith-based schools. Why do so many students drift away from the moral and religious beliefs their parents worked hard to pass on to them?
The common explanation offered by self-congratulating secular academics is that once-sheltered religious students, freed from the “indoctrination” of their parents and churches, find intellectual freedom and more persuasive answers in secular materialism than in religion. It’s certainly the story many students tell themselves, as they follow their friends into sexual experimentation or radical politics. Likewise, young people who plunge into the dark world of conspiracy theories and online far-right influencers believe that they have been “red-pilled,” set free from the comfortable illusions their parents and pastors still cling to.
But what if there’s a better explanation?
Our republic was founded on very specific claims about human nature—claims grounded in a biblical worldview, a natural law written on every human heart. This grants each of us equal status in the eyes of God, and fundamental rights that come from Him, not from the state. This complex set of assertions about the nature of human beings lies at the foundation of ordered liberty and democratic government. Yet from the moment students get to college (and indeed often in high school), their teachers and textbooks begin to put the American worldview through the shredder.
Students learn that the universe is a cosmic accident, perhaps just one of countless undetectable universes that emerge from utter chaos and eventually reach heat death. Students nod as professors explain that life on earth emerged from lightning striking some pool of dead chemicals, which somehow organized themselves into functioning cells replete with genetic information that came from nowhere. Those cells accidentally generated random mutations, which gradually built up into vastly complex new forms of life, which were culled for fitness by the ruthless war for survival, until over vast eons higher animals emerged, one line of which (the primates) eventually morphed into humans.
According to this worldview, the universe and life itself are meaningless happenstance. Our moral claims and religious beliefs are either comforting illusions or the side effects of previous biological adaptations. The free will and moral responsibility we think we possess are epiphenomena of the neurons firing in our brain, which generate our thoughts and dictate all our actions. We have no souls, will never face judgment, and at death we will wink out of existence, like the flame on a match dropped in Darwin’s toilet.
This picture of the world is also the one conveyed in virtually every science documentary currently streaming, sometimes gussied up with a wide-eyed sense of wonder at the hugeness, the oldness, the weirdness of the natural world. But even that concession to wonder is meant to compensate for the cold, empty feeling one naturally experiences upon learning that all one’s most treasured beliefs are but primitive fairy tales, debunked by rigorous science.
It is a bitter irony, then, that the rest of the curriculum at most colleges does not proceed from the conclusions of the hard science departments to teach amoral utilitarianism or even social Darwinism. Quite the contrary! An intense hyper-moralism pervades most non-STEM disciplines, which relentlessly press for “justice,” “equity,” and “inclusion”—values that should have no basis if the world were driven by randomness and ruthless competition.
Instead, such moral concerns are cherry-picked from biblical morality, stripped of their theological grounding, and turned into moral absolutes that justify strict ideological litmus tests and the purging of dissenters. Perhaps to compensate for their lost sense of ultimate meaning, young people become zealots and scolds when it comes to pure political questions, protesting and organizing against such “evils” as Zionism, Islamophobia, or “heteronormativity” with all the fervor of recent religious converts.
Puritanism has returned to Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, shorn of the cross and of Christ. As Joshua Mitchell observed, the Great Awokening sweeping up our youth is a secular exercise of an inborn American instinct to demonstratively build a perfect “City on a Hill.”
But what if the Darwinist emperor, in fact, is wearing no clothes? That’s the question asked, with scientific rigor, by The Story of Everything.
The film summons eminent mathematicians to explain the infinitesimal odds of a universe emerging whose fundamental laws permitted life, barring a Designer “fine-tuning” entropy, gravity, and other basic forces.
Moving on from physics to biology, the film interviews origin-of-life researchers to debunk the claim that non-life spontaneously generates life, with dead chemicals somehow forming the elaborate microcomputer and factory that is the most primitive cell. Then the filmmakers speak to biologists about the “irreducible complexity” of microbiological mechanisms such as the bacteria’s flagellum, an outboard motor that could not have plausibly resulted from the tiny, incremental, and accidental mutations that neo-Darwinist theory posits as the only source of innovation. Next, the geologists and astronomers weigh in on all the uncanny “coincidences” that make complex life possible on Earth, but not on the very geologically similar Mars.
At every point along the grand narrative of creation, the film reveals that the old Victorian story that Charles Darwin told—which inspired the mechanistic political theories of Karl Marx and Adolf Hitler—fails to explain the latest evidence emerging in laboratories, to the point that prominent evolutionary biologists now admit that theirs is a theory in crisis. The evidence of some vast design, and hence a Designer, keeps piling up and embarrassing scientific materialists. The great debunking machine that has shredded the faith of millions over the decades and empowered materialistic reductionists is sputtering to a stop.
The film is beautifully produced and powerfully persuasive, inspiring a healthy skepticism of received wisdom about the “verdict of science.” It is vital for young people to see this film. It is the least we can do to equip them to ask probing questions about the grim, godless orthodoxy in which they will soon be catechized.
