In the Current Evolution Debate, Don't Let Darwinists Tell You the History of Their Idea Is Irrelevant

Writing in the Claremont Review of Books, John West very interestingly reviews a book by John W. Compton, The Evangelical Origins of the Living Constitution (Harvard University Press). Compton seeks to explain the origin of the politically Progressive view of the Constitution -- as a fluid, evolving "living document" -- but he does so in an unexpected manner. In Compton's "sophisticated" but (John West clarifies) mistaken reading of U.S. history, Evangelical Christians were the first to come...