This is the title of a recent NY Times article(Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/science/18mora.html?_r=1&oref=slogin) that explores potential origins of morality based on the research and writings of Dr. Jonathan Haidt. From the Times article: "At first glance, natural selection and the survival of the fittest may seem to reward only the most selfish values. But for animals that live in groups, selfishness must be strictly curbed or there will be no advantage to social living. Could the behaviors evolved by social animals to make societies work be the foundation from which human morality evolved? In a series of recent articles and a book, “The Happiness Hypothesis,” Jonathan Haidt, a moral psychologist at the University of Virginia, has been constructing a broad evolutionary view of morality that traces its connections both to religion and to politics. " Dr. Haidt's work is still ongoing and others are working in similar fields of study but, like much of evolutionary science, turning back the hands of time is difficult and tedious work. But, what if Haidt's theories were proven true? How well would they be recieved? Would it help to show origins of faith. Would individual morality decline once the proverbial curtain has been pulled back and the respective promise or fear of heaven and hell is diminished? Don't know....