What if God is driving evolution?

I get frustrated, because to me it feels like all the people talking about religion seem to miss the point. But then I'm a biologist that studies human survival, so what do I know. How about you look at what you are saying in terms of biology, not religion? Then it's about survival. A biologist would ask then, what part of it relates to survival? What is human survival about? Biology shows that humans have two main strategies: "the red of tooth and claw" blind competition commonest to nature, and the cooperation reflected in the rapid brain size increase when we "left the trees". So, can we find those in religion? Why yes. The most basic of Jesus' messages was "love one another" and "forgiveness", which sounds like great software to go with our hardwired instinct for cooperation. That cooperation, by the way, is the "West’s intrinsic value". Most people don't know it because it's so taken for granted, but Jesus's message of peace and community are the foundations that all modern civilization are based on. It's about cooperation. Previous ones were mostly based on war and empire. Those moral messages, perhaps descended from Zoroaster, were the first belief system to inhibit war... and lord knows the Roman world needed it. (Buddhism and Stoicism said how to cope with war, but not how to prevent or end it.)

The lessons of Christianity are an essential part of the human operating system. Most of the rest of it can be found in basic philosophy... which we no longer teach, to our detriment.

If we follow Jesus' messages, we can maintain a civilization in a new ecology where we can genetically and strategically develop into far more than we are. If we do not, the best we will be able to do is have a feudalism.