Why Are We People?

When i started reading Dawkins's The Selfish Gene, in chapter 1 I saw a quote, in page 1, when he says "We no longer have to resort to superstition when faced with deep problems: Is there a meaning to life? What are we for? What is man?". This quote made me remember my first ever Pre AP English class, when the first thing we were asked when entering was: What are we here for?, how did we get here?, and where are we going? What Dawkins says is we are here just because of evolution, not to fulfill any destiny or weird things like those. In my APEnglish class we read things like The Bible, Gilamesh, and many other things like thoser that made reference to God, destiny, and those superstitious things. This books contradics them, saying we're just evolution.

I Agree with most of what Dawkins says in his first chapter. He talks about us having this selfish gene, that makes us be the opposite of altirustic, meaning wanting the best for ourselves. Most animals are alturistic, because our gene wants it to. We don't have to follow our gene's instructions all our live, but we do most of the time because we like being selfish, not alturistic.