John West on Alfred Wallace and the Road Not Taken

Sadly it's behind a paywall, otherwise I'd simply tell you to go read our colleague John West's terrific essay in First Things, "The Church of Darwin." West recounts some of the terrible currents in thought outside science that have flowed from Darwin's theory. But he also shows that it didn't have to be that way.

At the inception of the theory of evolution, Darwin and co-discoverer Alfred Russel Wallace represented two paths forward, one headed in the end to nihilism, atheism, and despair...