A couple of cursory observations.
...evolutionary thinking itself is shedding considerable light on an array of questions and problems, from ... from ecology to software design. Such research is yielding anti-designer results.
Being easily amused, I never fail to be amused by the contradiction of "software design yielding anti-designer results." (This even despite the horrid new software on which the firm spent way too much money, which we are now forced to use:^). The point being that there has to be a mind to start with, coupled with the hardware to make the thought product do anything. Natural selection itself, like history is not a force. It doesn't produce anything. It is an effect, not a cause of anything.
Kristol has been quite candid about his belief that religion is essential for inculcating and sustaining morality in culture.
This is not an idea original to Kristol. George Washington (and other Founders) said pretty much the same thing, not because they viewed religion as a useful fiction, but because they believed it to be true. Karl Marx's cynical half-truth about opiatic effects nothwithstanding, true religion does not dull people to reality, it arouses them to do good, and restrains them from doing evil.
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. )
Cordially,