Darwinism and Its Discontents

A thoughtful and honest essay ("Is That All There Is? Secularism and Its Discontents") by James Wood in The New Yorker confronts the anguished disappointment of secularism, which, it's implied throughout, is disproportionately a gift of our Darwinian cultural heritage. I take away from the piece that much as Darwinian apologists would like us to think that the view they evangelize for includes its own comforts and sources of awe, enchantment and illumination, this is largely bunk for ...