Is There a Point To Living a Moral Life?

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Your group is your family/genetic relatives and people who are useful to your own survival not your species as a whole.

Except that evolution isn't a mind that can recognize familial groups, and traditionally the older tribal groups that formed these behaviors were more than just the single family.

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?

Consider the possibility that you don't understand how it's meant to work. You wouldn't be the first christian with an inadequate grasp of evolution.

It's the survival of the individual and their genes within the species not the species as a whole.

The individual members of a species all fall under the umbrella of their species. I shouldn't have to explain this, but species that die out, die out. It doesn't matter if you're the longest surviving member, from an evolutionary standpoint, if you're the last one, and therefore have no gene pool to add to.

A starving child in Africa does not negatively impact your own survival or the survival of our species in any way.

Individually no, but too many of them begins to shrink the gene pool in a process which has as its main driving force genetic diversity. You don't have to be Dawkins to see how that negatively impacts us all enough to want to do something about.

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.

Except that natural selection and survival of the fittest aren't the same thing, the latter isn't exactly a selection criteria in the broadest sense, and bringing it up the way you just did confirms that you don't really understand evolution.

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.

And, like most christians that try that, you're doing it incorrectly. Why do you guys never actually take on board what's being said back to you?