Lincoln and religion

[My Name Is Kate]

I've been thinking about the Gould article ever since it was posted, and evolutionary theory in general. As far as I can tell, what Darwinism boils down to, is that once something is alive, it generally wants to stay alive any way it can. It has no answer for how things became alive in the first place. And it has no answer for how morality fits into the picture. If all things that are alive, no matter how rudimentary their consciousness might be, shared the same basic morality, for example, live and let live, then it would work for the good of all. But what about when a guy like Hitler comes along? Wouldn't evolutionary theory uphold him as an exceptional example of someone "fit to survive"? Never mind that he ended up committing suicide. If he had succeeded in his goal of world domination, wouldn't he be the ultimate example of how best to survive? Maybe he didn't survive and succeed only because he wasn't ruthless enough, or cunning enough.

Anyway, that's as far as I've got in my thinking...