The Darwinian Origins of Euthanasia Advocacy

It's not for nothing that Discovery Institute's Center for Science & Culture is called that. Ideas about nature and about culture -- the way we live, how we think about right and wrong, about meaning in life -- go together, inextricably.

Scientism is the notion that science can tell us everything we need to know about ethics and about how to order a flourishing society. Another view is that nature itself represents merely the fulfillment of a design conceived outside the material world. In t...