Greed, Westernisation and the Church

I've just read a piece on the new Oxonomics blog about Modernisation and Westernisation, asking whether one can be "modern", or develop the "technology, customs and institutions which might herald their own intensive growth", without also developing Western morals.  

I doubt I'll be able to coherently write my thoughts out, but I am sceptical that one can have the Western pursuit of more more more without Western lax morals, because these countries have looked enviously in the first place at the living standards in the West, and decided that they like them and want them, and this is surely only a hop, skip and a jump from greed, which dictates Western morals.

The desire to grow, grow, grow can surely only come from greed for more?  Otherwise why wouldn't we be satisfied carrying doing just as well as before?

At least, the most abhorrent displays of "Western morals" anyway - showing off flash cars etc., but these are far removed from "Christian morals" anyway, morals which are based, incidentally, on gratitude, not guilt.  Gratitude for the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ in the place of the Christian, motivating a response.  

Not particularly related, Jean-Paul Carvalho, the author, makes a suggestion which rankles with me, as a Christian and an economist, hence something like a scientist.  The "scientific and Darwinian revolutions undermined belief in a Christian God", Carvalho claims. Science explains the "how" about the universe, how it works, while Christianity gives a motivation, a "why" for it all, why are we here at all in the first place?  

There is nothing undermining about finding out more of the world that God has created, if one is a Christian - about finding the rules and regulations God set in place.  Additionally, there is nothing contradictory in God using evolution as a force in the world he created.