Every Really Interesting Science Story Is About Human Exceptionalism

Isn't it, though, in a broad sense? I think our colleague Wesley Smith would agree. Sure, there are scary stories about the Zika virus or hopeful ones about prospects for an Alzheimer's treatment, and those catch our attention because they play on our anxieties. But the profound ones all seem, explicitly or implicitly, to touch on the question of what a human being is, or what life itself is -- cosmic flotsam or something more?

As illustrations take these two headlines from one day in the p...