What we must accept if we accept evolution

Yes, although "tragic" might be a little too superior. The tragic person, in classical terms, is the man who has good intentions but has some fatal flaw, or there is a series of fated accidents that destroys him. It's more like the graveyard scene in Hamlet: just a skull. A fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. Where are your jokes now? Might make a good doorstop. Or paper weight.

Nice to hear from you, Quetzal. You been a long time gone.

I always identified with Yorick. Nice guy. Shakespeare was a nihilist, of course.

I don't like Nietzche. There's something aggressive about him that is disturbing to me. Shakespeare was technically a member of the Church of England, of course, and since he never spoke except in character, it's hard to know what he really thought. There's a strong flavor of nihilism in his tragedies, however.I don't know what kind of nihilist I am--except non-aggressive. Yes, Darwinism is earth-shaking, radical, and strange.

There is no non-biological side. There cannot be.