What the Assisted Suicide Debate Has to Do with Evolution

It's not possible to remind yourself too often how evolutionary thinking ramifies through the culture. Assisted suicide, for example, the subject of a proposed new law before the California State Legislature, as Wesley Smith wrote here. Senate Bill 128 would bring California into the company of Oregon, Washington, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and now Canada.

In brief -- at stake in the question of biological and cosmic origins is, finally, the question of the human self-image. Our...