Stephen Meyer on a "Special Relationship" at Risk

Considering that we spend a lot of time here criticizing the legacy of a 19th-century English gentleman scientist and the ideas of his latter-day followers, linking intelligent design with Anglophile sentiments might not seem an obvious connection to make.

On the other hand, Alfred Russel Wallace, Darwin's compatriot and erstwhile colleague in articulating the theory of evolution, is the major forerunner of modern ID thinking. Historical associations aside, ID is very much a cross-Atlantic...