Morality derived from human nature (and thus from Darwin’s sociobiology) differs from divine law as expressed in the New Testament in significant ways. It is Aristotlean and Randian morality, is fundamentally selfish. Aristotle and Rand tells us to cultivate our own excellence. Darwin tells us we commit ourselves to conduct that will enable us to get along with others because humans are a social and political animal, we need to cooperate with others to achieve our goals.
Thus one should return good for good and evil for evil. Vengeance is not the Lord’s. He will not repay. One should do good for one’s kin, and forgive them their sins, and good for one’s friends, but not be nearly so forgiving of their sins. All men are not brothers. One should not harm other people without compelling and urgent reason, but the standard of what constitutes compelling and urgent reason is considerably greater for neighbors than it is for distant strangers. All men are not Hebrews.
It is a considerably more manly and muscular morality than that of Christianity. Transnational progressivism is Christian morality, Americans putting themselves on the cross for Muslims as Christ did, which is why we are losing in Afghanistan. Darwinian morality is classic Greek morality, Xenophon explaining that he had urgent need to slaughter, rape, loot and burn his way across Asia because the incorrigible bad conduct of the savages around him gave him no real alternative.
If you are invoking Darwinism, remember how Christianity began in pagan world.
Christians abhorred abortion and infanticide, popular among pagans. In time of plague, Christians cared for their sick, while pagans rationally ran away. In time of famine, Christians shared the food they had, while pagans rationally hoarded for themselves. In times of persecution, Christians chose death over apostasy, while pagans rationally worshipped the Roman emperors as gods.
The result was that, in merely few hundred years, pagan world became Christian one. On whose side was Darwin?
http://www.amazon.com/Rise-Christianity-Marginal-Movement-Religious/dp/0060677015
http://books.google.com/books?id=HcFSaGvgKKkC
http://www.jknirp.com/stark.htm
As for your rules of pagan morality – at best these are only rules of the road. They tell nothing about road that shall man take.
What excellency shall one pursue? What goals shall one have? With which people shall one get along?
Adamanteus:
Paganism had died, and Christianity filled the vacuum – Christianity prospered by conversion, not reproduction. Christianity does not do so well in lands where there are sufficient Muslims that they can get away with raping and robbing Christians, which problem sets in at about ten to thirty percent Muslim. On the bloody borders of Islam, Darwin is on the side of the Muslims.
The last question is easy to answer – people who refrain from harming you for small reason, and refrain from stealing your stuff. Having answered the last question, answers to the earlier questions follow.