The Discovery Institute is based in...Seattle
The Thomas Moore Center is based in...Ann Arbor
And Philip Johnson operates out of...Berkeley. BERKELEY!
And within the scientific community, the most famous opponets of Neo-Darwinian theory are Richard Lewontin and Steve Rose...avowed Marxists who let ideology cloud their views the same way the IDers let theology cloud theirs. Yes, creationuts and the left are not-so-strange bedfellows. In fact, they were made for each other.
American conservatism is inherently rational at its intellectual base. No one can read the writings of Jefferson, Franklin, and the other Founders without immediately coming to that conclusion. Any assault on rationality is therefore anti-conservative. And anti-American too.