The Evangelical war for science?

NPR has a piece, Evangelical Leaders Urge Action on Climate Change. Paging Chris Mooney for commentary (and Ed Brayton). You can see the full list of signatories here, I was surprised that some heavy hitters are on the list. For example, the presidents of Calvin College, Wheaton College and Whitworth College. This isn't selection biased from the liberal wing of the evangelical movement (though some of those are there). Calvin is American's premier Reformed liberal arts institution, and produced Alvin Platinga, the Protestant philosopher in the United States. Wheaton has been called the "Harvard of Evangelical America" (Billy Graham's alma mater), while Whitworth is notable because Stephen C. Meyer of The Discovery Institute received his undergraduate degrees and taught there. This move doesn't surprise me, evangelicals often follow the trends of the culture as a whole. Today we tend to see evangelicals as foot-soldiers in the right-wing of the cultures ...