[DWPittelli]

If evolution is true, then life has no purpose... Even mass murder as a form of 'helping' natural selection becomes viable. One must doubt if any society can survive under such terms. One must doubt if any species can survive which acts in such a way. For the above is a prescription for destruction not for creation. What man needs is hope, not despair in order to better himself and evolution only provides despair.

Since you here present utilitarian grounds for traditional morality, you yourself show that even an atheistic utilitarian can accept that your morality is of benefit to society. (And individuals are always apt to see benefit in following the morality of any society with a system of justice, formal or informal.)

BTW, I don't know a lot of people who suffer from "despair," and I doubt very much that despair or major depression or any such thing correlates much one way or the other with belief in evolution.

[gore3000]

Since you here present utilitarian grounds for traditional morality, you yourself show that even an atheistic utilitarian can accept that your morality is of benefit to society.

You are finally getting my point. Materialism destroys the basis of a good society by destroying belief in God. So, like the saying went, materialism plants the seeds for the destruction of us all. Now this can in no way be called progress, or advance or helpful to the human species. Therefore the scientific materialism which evolution proposes is false. It does not lead to betterment, it leads to destruction. So again we see that truth and morality go together.