1. Evolution fits well with good theology. Christians believe in an omniscient and omnipotent God. What difference does it make when God created the universe--10,000 years ago or 10,000,000,000 years ago?
This is NOT a reason to accept evolution. It is merely a (valid) point that evolution is not outside of the scope of God's power.
2. Creationism is bad theology.
This is the worst, most incoherent argument in the list. God's choice of how to create in no way diminishes His power to do it a multitude of other ways. It also mis-identifies intelligent design, as almost all anti-ID (and a lot of pro-ID) propaganda does.
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.
All 3 of these are essentially the same argument. "Explaining" a moral or spiritual principle in terms of natural selection & instincts is not going to get Christians on the side of evolution. If God is involved, He doesn't need Darwin's help in formulating a moral code. If He's not involved, then any such biologically derived "morals" have no more objective legitimacy than a mosquito's "moral" compulsion to bite humans.
6. Evolution explains conservative free-market economics. Charles Darwin's "natural selection" is precisely parallel to Adam Smith's "invisible hand."
Ridiculous. If biological systems were instead structured such that less fit organisms were disproportionately benefited by those who are better adapted, meaning that all genetic lines were equally preserved instead of the fit ones, would that somehow create a moral argument for socialism?
If conservative Christians should accept evolution as true, it is for exactly one reason: because it IS true. If evolution is a fact, then it should be accepted for THAT reason, not because it gives us warm fuzzy feelings about God and/or morality and/or the Laffer curve. This is a terribly condescending article.
What difference does it make when God created the universe--10,000 years ago or 10,000,000,000 years ago? The glory of the creation commands reverence regardless of how many zeroes in the date. And what difference does it make how God created life--spoken word or natural forces?
This guy repeatedly makes it clear that he is talking about evolution, yet here he is going off into cosmology & the origin of life, NEITHER of which falls under the term 'evolution.' You would not let a Creationist get away with that sort of switch.