First, to talk about moral categories like good and bad makes no sense for atheists. If mankind is just another organism that came about through the amoral process of time and chance acting on matter, then to talk about things as good or bad is just plain silly. Chemical reactions or the actions of biological units brought about through chemical reactions are have no basis for morals.
Even if you were to suggest some other method for deciding certain things are good or bad, such as: they are good for the survival of the species or even the individual, your evaluation could never be anything but pure subjectivity. If we are the standard for deciding if we are good, I suspect we will be good in our eyes and someone else may just as validly declare us bad. Further, even the notion that the survival of an individual, a species, or even the continued existence of the earth as a whole is in some way "good", can't be grounded in anything besides personal opinion.
It is fascinating how many atheists feel obligated (in their books/speeches) to point out the better things atheists have done and the worse things religious people have done throughout world history. Should I assume they would become Christians if the statistics supported the opposite being true? Have they forgotten Stalin, Pol Pot, Kim Jong-il and so many other murderous tyrants who were true to their atheistic/evolutionary beliefs? It has been suggested that some of these tyrants practiced a religion of sorts, but in practice they all assumed the role of god and acted according to an atheist/evolutionary worldview.
Likewise, this is an especially weak argument against Christianity since even though many who have called themselves Christians have done horrible things, the teachings of the Christian's Bible would have condemned those who did them and exposed them as not being Christians in any true biblical sense.
Clearly the tyrants who have been most successful in subduing/eliminating their foes were acting consistent with their atheist beliefs as they put survival of the fittest into action.
Face the facts - to even suggest life ought to continue is a moral statement that has no place in atheistic/evolutionary thinking.
Unless God speaks in some tangible way, such as the Bible as the Christians claim, then we have no basis for acknowledging morality as a category of thought/discussion, no language to speak within the category even if it existed and no standard we could use to evaluate it regardless.
So even if someone writes a book to the contrary - Good Without God - is silly talk.
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