If Darwinists Won the Debate, What Would They Say to Impart Comfort, Meaning to Those in Grief?

At ENV we stick mainly, though not exclusively, to the scientific stakes in the evolution controversy. Sometimes, as Mike Flannery did yesterday, we reflect on Darwinism's record as an influence in culture and ethics -- including "eugenics, racism, imperialism, cutthroat capitalism, and crude materialism" -- not because that record should be determinative in the scientific debate, of course, but because it highlights what's otherwise at stake.

It is possible, as a historian, to set down that...