Doesn't belief in Darwin's evolution result in more morality than any religion?

By recognizing that everything in nature is kin, albeit distant in many cases, aren't we more likely to do away with arbitrary distinctions like race and even species? Once I recognize chimpanzees as "like me" and part of my extended family, I no longer consider it okay to torture and maim them for trophies, experiments or frivolous entertainment. Instead, I respect them.
Conversely, if religion claims that I'm separate and better than every other living creature, I'm more likely to abuse those creatures. And abusing those who are weaker than you is the very definition of immorality.

Agreed, but that is a very flawed argument.

You could just as easily argue that with natural selection and survival of the fittest, our current views of morality are irrelevant. In fact, from a pure Darwinian viewpoint, that the only morality is promoting your own genes and genetic material or increasing the chances of your offspring surviving and reproducing.

A purely Darwinian viewpoint can also be Machiavellian in a sense that everything you do is competition and getting an advantage or that any resources you expend that don't promote your own genes are a weakness.

You could also argue that religion (at least morality) in and of itself is the product of evolution - and not Darwinian science. By promoting the concept of morality and helping the weak, altruistic behavior can make a potential mate appear more 'fit'. Traits that help a person fit into a society and strengthen the people around them (including the weak or otherwise unfit) they increase their own chances of survival and passing down genes.

Of course, assuming that society without religon would sink into hedonism or self-centered behavior disregards the fact that individuals or people who only act in their own self interest are less fit then people who can work as a group or in a community - regardless of if there is religion or not.

Nope. In evolution there is no morality, merely acts of survival.

The basic rule of evolution is that the strong adapt and survive or wither and die.

Interesting. But can't one also argue. That if atheism replaced religion we would have a lot of people that are out only for themselves? Would morality matter at all if there we no "afterlife" consequences? Would the world descend into hedonism?

Not if you think that being better means not abusing other creatures.

Go preach your morality to the tiger, that he may respect the sheep.

People cheat on, injure, kill, steal from members of their own families.

no. that makes no sense. go back to school.

No.

"Darwins Evolution" also discussed "preferable species and races".

If evolution is fact, it is also fact that there is a species, and races, that evolved faster than others.

Darwin wrote in a book "The Descent Of Man",

"At some future period not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace the savage races throughout the world. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes...will no doubt be exterminated. The break between man and his nearest Allies will then be wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilized state, as we may hope, even than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as the baboon, instead of as now between the ***** or Australian and the gorilla "


"Their mental characteristics are likewise very distinct; chiefly as it would appear in their emotional, but partly in their intellectual faculties. Everyone who has had the opportunity of comparison must have been struck with the contrast between the taciturn, even morose, aborigines of S. America and the light-hearted, talkative Negroes. "

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Evolution is a race. Someone wins, someone looses. In Intelligent design, every man has a spirit, which his given by god, and is equal, regardless of physical appearance.