as to the original question, it is undoubtably better for ones odds to be a believer. If god exists, you may be saved. If he doesn't then you will die like evryone else. If you are an atheist, Then if god does exist you are screwed. If he doesn't you die like everyone else. By the odds its...
But the idea that god has told us the "right" thing, is your belief. If my belief is that my moral guidelines are correct then they are equally valid. Just not from you're point of view. I would still have moral guidelines, they could even be the same as yours.
Why can't evolution support the idea of man as the zenith of animals? If we look at what makes man more than animals we can tell by observation that it is not by our form, after all our form is lesser in many ways to any variety of animals, this evolution does support. But if we say what...