An atheist is bound to point to this and say,
“See? See? Altruistic behavior doesn’t require a belief in a god & doesn’t even require human intelligence!!”
Well, atheists don’t understand Spirit; and the fact that everything that is alive has Spirit in it. Spirit is God in all of us - critters, too; and the land and the seas, etc.
Otherwise, all of this “creation” would just be a dead thing,
feeling nothing, knowing nothing, never changing. It would be LIFE-less.
-JT
Or maybe the tortoise can’t mate with another tortoise who is laying on its back. The tortoise that was saved didn’t even bother to say thank you.
And how would you rebut that?