Yes Egan all these things done in the NAME of religion are shameful to be sure....but what about the good done in the name of God? there is the total opposite senario which you keep ignoring and very conveniently I might say.

Now try looking at society as a whole and what is predominantly taught to the youth of today about their very origins and have a look at the crime statistics and rates of depression/suicide/abortion/ etc. Would you like me to attribute the increased rates of these things as having any association with the evolutionary belief? ... Should I blame all things on evolution? Or should I assume that because it's not yelled from the roof tops or flags thrown up that it cannot possibly have anything to do with evolution? You wait for a name to be yelled out, but you dont seem to consider the possible impact this belief maybe having. Many things could be attributed to that, but are you certain evolution has nothing to do with it?

What a person believes about their origins makes a profound impact on how they value themselves, their life and their fellow man. Some people do just fine no matter what they believe, fit in well, lovely, civilised etc. But look at society on a whole and things aint improving, but crime is increasing.

IN fact, i'm getting the impression you're close to painting evolution with a pair of wings and a halo .... perhaps you might decide to consider the bigger picture a little more, rather than continuing to focus on religion all the time to blame. We all know the atrocities attributed to people who do evil in the name of religion....but if you look at the beliefs of the gospels, this preaches no such thing....yet evolution allows one to consider the idea that human beings and all living creatures are nothing more than a result of billions of years and chance random processes...

So paint evolution as innocently as you wish, but I am not as convinced as you are that this belief is as harmless as you are suggesting.

But again, that is up for opinion. And for now you can shout your anti religion stance from the virtual roof tops and deny all the good done in the name of God (which tells me of your real intention here) and deny any possible negative impact of the evolutionary belief.. simply because you state that if something evil hasn't been done in the "name" of evolution, then it cannot be attributed to it....