Dick in the Dock Part 9: It is written.

Dawkins does not think much of the Bible, but that is supposedly not his point in this chapter. His point is supposedly that nobody actually uses the Bible as there moral absolute anyway. Well I don’t know about that, I practice every day (except on Shabbat) so that when I see an Amalekite I can smite him!
But what Dawkins really dislikes is moral absolutes of any kind, regardless of where they come from. He prefers to think of morality as evolving. Again, this is simply behavior patterns, not morality. In order for there to be morality there must be a free moral agent and a moral ought. One could base their morality on natural selection, but that would simply make natural selection the moral absolute.
Dawkins tries to get his “morality” from the Zeitgeist. But what does it mean to be filed with the Zeitgeist? It means simply to blow with the wind, or rather to chase it. For one’s own arbitrary opinions, prejudices and inclinations would be part of it, with no principle by which to know which to cultivate which to eliminate, just a statistical average which is always changing. Eventually, of course, natural selection will weigh in on such matters, but that is still not making any moral pronouncements (unless you think we “ought” to survive, but then that still requires a moral absolute external to the Zeitgeist).
Dawkins did say something I agree with though - “If there are moral absolutes…they are available to every one, even without scripture.”
Well, as someone who does believe in moral absolutes, I think that is true. I think the source of such absolutes must be God, Who is accessible to all, and is manifest in the things that are made.