Thursday, April 10, 2008

The Evolutionary Basis of Political Philosophy in the Theoevolutionary Church

Transforming Cattell's “Beyondist” perspective, we agree that evolution is the primary process in the universe, however, we believe evolution was initiated by God and is ordered by God's laws.

Human evolution indeed proceeds by natural selection among groups, which is determined by natural selection among individuals, genetically and culturally.  Natural selection among groups and individuals requires variation among groups and individuals, and one important factor in group survival is the laws that govern the group. The evolution of the best values is based on intergroup competition and survival, but more importantly, values are based on the attainment of Godhood through the Outward Path of evolution as well as the Inward Path of Christianity.

These principles are transformed into Christian social philosophy in general, where subsidiarity and federalism or small ethnostates are the preferred social and political structures, which best allows for evolution, variation and competition.

We believe that the end goal of evolution is Godhood, that is, the Outward Path attains the same Godhood that is seen in the Inward Path of religion. These two paths relate to the Two Laws of Practical Evolutionary Law and Speculative Evolutionary Law, which are, in the Theoevolutionary Church, the transformed laws of Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas.

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