Is There a Point To Living a Moral Life?

[Sword of Christ]

"In this case, the behavior getting selected for would have been something like "protect your group,"

Your group is your family/genetic relatives and people who are useful to your own survival not your species as a whole. If you could escape from a terrorist attack on a shopping mall by allowing some children to be shot instead of yourself then that's the thing you ought to do if you're following through on the evolutionary logic. Unless they're your children then its makes sense to sacrifice yourself to allow for the all important continuation of your own genes the only potentially immortal part of you. Self destructive behavior if genetically based ought to have been weeded out of the human population millions of years ago unless you want to claim doesn't work the way we believe it's meant to work?

Which would also handily explain the behaviour of the dolphins. I'd only argue with it being an error in the first-place. Survival of the individual in evolutionary theory is not the issue - its survival of the species as far as it can and beyond that of life itself.

It's the survival of the individual and their genes within the species not the species as a whole. Even Richard Dawkin's would disagree with you if that's what you're saying. A starving child in Africa does not negatively impact your own survival or the survival of our species in any way. If you wanted to you could say the weak are being weeded out and the stronger more resourceful populations thrive. I'm not saying that but you may as well if you don't believe God exists.

Horribly Jesus like that last bit - but I am talking about life and death real situations - not imaginary Gods.

I'm explaining the reality of what the situation is if God doesn't exist and morality/altruism is merely what you claim it to be.