Richard Dawkins and the God of the Old Testament

[Exian]

The difference is that we have millions of people who form their entire lives around the morality of the OT god, and not a single person forms their morality around natural selection (well, maybe I shouldn't say "not a single person").

This question was whittled down to "a dog-eat-dog world" and posed to Dawkins by some lady in a video floating around youtube somewhere. To which he replied with something like (in my own words)- No one is proposing that we live by the standards of natural selection. A dog eat dog world would, of course, be horrendous. And it probably wouldn't work in the first place, as a single species, evidenced by us not naturally living this way. Heck, maybe a small pocket of humans tried it, but if they did, it didn't work, and we no longer see them. We are civilized and aware; if anything this places a responsibility on us to look after the world and it's inhabitants.