[bdeaner]

People attribute far too much to this one theory, and if someone wants to twist that theory for sociopolitical ends, that doesn't necessarily reflect on the theory's validity.

Right. That's the central point here. The author is not necessarily arguing from a Creationist perspective. It is possible to believe in Darwinian theory without buying into the notion that principles of natural selection explain morality. They were never meant to explain morality; they are meant to explain the descent of the species. The argument, then, is that morality operates according to a different set of principles than natural selection.

[Batrachian]

Morality aside, it occurs to me that much of the problem people have with the Theory of Evolution is that they keep hearing about how we're descended from apes. People don't like apes. They're smelly, ugly, and have bad habits like scratching their butts and masturbating in public. No one wants to think that they're descended from that. If we where descended from cats, for example, it would be different. Elegant, beautiful cats. It wouldn't be so bad then.

I think there's a real ape prejudice out there which taints the issue, never mind the religious objections that people have.