Michael Schermer has re-posted an editorial he wrote a couple years back. It’s brief and gives six reasons why Christians and/or conservatives should embrace the theory of evolution.

1. Evolution fits well with good theology
2. Creationism is bad theology
3. Evolution explains original sin and the Christian model of human nature
4. Evolution explains family values
5. Evolution accounts for specific Christian moral precepts
6. Evolution explains conservative free-market economics

Reasons 3, 4, and 5 boil down to “behavioral evolution confirms many of your religion’s moral beliefs.” Reasons 1, 2, and 3 are interesting. For the first reason, he writes:

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