Well said, Andrew; but the answer to your question “Who cares about theology?” is, as you surely know from your own email-bag: Lots and lots and lots of NRO readers.

In the recent exchanges about eugenics, one such reader explained to me at length why even the merest kind of genetic intervention is wrong, wrong, wrong. I couldn’t follow his argument at all. It might as well have been in Greek–which, in fact, a couple of his technical terms were!

If that is typical of the arguments that will be placed before the American public to persuade them that it would be wrong, wrong, wrong for them to pay $2,000 to a clinic to increase the odds of their newborn being healthy, clever, and good-looking; well, as I said, lotsa luck.