Why can’t we just trust the future of living things into the all-knowing hands of “the selfish gene” that Dawkins says is our creator? If natural selection made us what we are, as atheists insist, surely it will protect us to whatever extent it thinks necessary. If billions die in the process of the next upward move to a higher species, so what? Isn’t that how evolution works?
Yet here we are, worried about endangered species and our own survival and trying to “help” nature do its job. Obviously, natural selection did not implant this concern. What did?