But it starts by giving up an active deity, then it gives up the hope that there’s any life after death. When you give those two up the rest of it follows fairly easily. You give up the hope that there’s an immanent morality. And finally, there’s no human free will. If you believe in evolution, you can’t hope for there being any free will. There’s no hope whatsoever of there being any deep meaning in human life. We live, we die, and we’re gone. We’re absolutely gone when we die.
