How about "love your neighbor as yourself" as the single moral code to live by?
If the Suni's and the Shiites would adopt this 5 word moral code then the sectarian violence in Iraq would cease, the rich would care for the poor in the same manner they cared for themselves, racism would cease, as would all other forms of segregation and sectarianism.
One of the major tenets of the New Testament is that we are to "love your neighbor as yourself". However, self interest, greed, hate, the pursuit of material possessions, and sexual gratification free of moral responsibility will always elevate self above others.
As to your comments concerning time, the Grand Canyon, and dinosaurs; these can be logically explained if and when you accept scientific data as the basis for what you believe in lieu of theories that do not have any empirical evidence to support them. You have a problem with religion and faith in religious beliefs but do not have a problem with putting your faith in scientific theories and dating methods that depend on defined constants that have been shown to be variables. If science has taught us anything it is that scientific knowledge is in a constant state of flux. What is thought as being true today will tomorrow be viewed as archaic.