Jim West puts a finer point on his question here in the comments by asking:
Why would one care what happens to human beings if they are just animals like all the other evolved mammals?
I am zooming in on my response here and expanding it slightly for further debate, if there is even a debate at all.
If our planet is to survive and remain habitable we must, as the top of the food chain and direct cause of environmental toxicity, re-engineer the planet. As human beings who are conscious of evolutionary processes, we are responsible to consciously and intentionally direct evolutionary processes around our obligations to each other and the planet. Dr.'s E.O. Wilson and Peter Ward among others have argued as much. A fantastic resource for these issues can be found here. Even Mr. Bush is catching up with this concept.
Couched in terms of obligation to neighbor, this is not a utilitarian argument wherein one would practice genetic manipulation in order to clean up the gene pool like so many cattle, dog, and plant breeders do. Humans have value to the degree that they can receive the good and flourish by it. Those humans who cannot receive the good such as those in Darfour, are those to whom we are obligated to restructure the conditions for living in which they can flourish and re-claim their humanity.
Human beings are the only species in existence that can claim the responsibility to continue the habitability of this planet. Our uncanny knowledge of evolutionary and physical properties gives us the tools in order to accomplish this feat. It is here where evolution and Christianity meet.
Evolution therefore, has everything to do with love of neighbor and the call to stewardship – it always has.
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