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Sexual selection can lead to a trait that makes genes more likely to be passed on, but doesn’t help an individual’s survival.

For example, a peacock’s tail improves his chances of finding a willing peahen and passing on his genes, but the vibrant plumage may put him at greater risk of being caught by a predator.

It makes sense to think of it from the gene’s point of view. “What would make a gene more likely to be passed on?” is a better question than “What would make an individual animal survive.”

link studies on what...genetic component to altruism? here, read this:
https://www.amazon.com/Selfish-Gene-Richard-Dawkins/dp/1491514507

IQ and genetics?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/10/genes-dont-just-influence-your-iq-they-determine-how-well-you-do-school
http://www.nature.com/mp/journal/v20/n1/full/mp2014105a.html
Deary IJ, Johnson W, Houlihan LM. Genetic foundations of human intelligence. Hum Genet2009; 126: 215–232. | Article | PubMed | ISI |
Plomin R, DeFries JC, Knopik VS, Neiderhiser JM. Behavioral genetics, 6th edn. Worth Publishers: New York, 2013.
https://www.amazon.com/IQ-Wealth-Nations-Richard-Lynn/dp/027597510X
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121002150027.htm

I dunno...do you need more sources? This is a good intro reading, there are many thousands more studies...

they all contradict the politically correct narrative, and they all suggest that importing 3rd world immigrants into wealthy nations is an excellent way to destroy those nations. This is not controversial speculation...for actual scientists it is a known fact. This should make you feel a bit uncomfortable...unless you live in israel or china of course.

>So because you can logically deduce altruism that cannot be the law of God? I don't quite understand what you're getting at. My point, and the point of C.S. Lewis is that people can follow the law of God, love your neighbor and love God, without implicitly knowing Christian law. Regardless of if you can logically deduce morality or not, I don't see how that invalidates the main point.

Because there is ZERO reason to believe there IS a "law of God" or that the phrase "law of God" means anything.

>without implicitly knowing Christian law.

There is NO reason to believe "the law" is "Christian".

As I've said, cooperation and altruism occurs in nature and tying it to anything supernatural is superfluous. What seems more likely is that the authors of the Bible observed cooperation and altruism and then attributed it to their conception of their deity.

Check out The Selfish Gene. If natural selection occurs at the replicating gene level, then altruism at the organism level isn't a mystery at all...nor, again, does it require any divine explanation.

> if you can logically deduce morality

I suppose you may be saying God created the material process by which organisms become altruistic in more evolved species (i.e. humans). Okay. That's more deism, but okay. Not really falsifiable. And not terribly parsimonious as an explanation. But, okay.

>I don't know if you're familiar with the differing sects of Christianity

Abundantly. Familiar.

> The ideals I strive to live by are love, mercy, forgiveness etc... But it all basically falls under the umbrella of love. Do I live by these ideals perfectly? Absolutely not, we are all sinners, even the saints, that doesn't mean that I flippantly ignore my ideals, it just means that even the best of us stumble.

Here. This will help you. Words don't inherently mean something, and you can use them in ways that make it seem like there are distinctions when there aren't.

You appear to neither be aware of this book (http://www.amazon.de/The-Selfish-Gene-Richard-Dawkins/dp/1491514507) nor the definition of a meme (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme).

Furthermore, which right would that be? The right to lie in public with the intent to mislead people? I am sorry, this right does not exist in Europe, therefore this also no rights violation.