Good and Evil In Evolution

It is not only part of our metaphysical nature to seek God, it is part of our physical nature to seek God. We were evolved to be able to make more or less free choices within determined aspects of nature and God.

God creates life of “necessity” but with the “contingency” of meritocracy. Men make choices in evolutionary competition. Thus evolution becomes one more way to become “good” in God's eyes.

“Evil” is the “privation of the good,” which affirms Aquinas. God is the highest good. Evolution is the contingent meritocracy necessarily set up by God, the goal of which is to attain Godhood. The other virtues also remain as aids in this end goal.