There is a scene at the end of the movie, “Evan Almighty,” in which the main character, played by Steve Carrell, meets with God beneath a towering oak casting shadows across an open field. The movie is a comical parody on a modern-day idealist who is entrusted with a Noah-like charge, a challenge of biblical proportions.
Standing alone with God in the end, Carrell’s character asks, “How do you real…