Evolution and the Moral Imagination
When Burke spoke of the wisdom of the ancient structure of our civilization and the “contract of eternal society” he was not speaking of evolution, but he should have been. There is nothing older or more eternal on earth or in the Kosmos than the process of evolution. Human history and the moral order of our civilization, which Conservatives prefer to follow, as they well should, are not as ancient or eternal as evolution.
In the spirit of Conservatism we seek, with the Theoevolutionary Church (TC) to “refurbish the wardrobe of moral imagination” (Burke-Kirk), perhaps like Plato and Burke, by adapting the ancient structures of evolution to civilization and to religion. In EC the Involutionary Inward Path of Traditional Religion, which taught us primarily about the Soul and the God Within, is refurbished with the Evolutionary Outward Path of the Evolution to Godhood, the way to the Real God.
Evolutionary Sociobiology has taught us that the enduring principles, social institutions and human nature, defined by Conservatism, are grounded in the enduring principles of Evolution, which in fact, help ground the ancient religion that conservatives affirm.
Some conservatives think that “natural law” is an inadequate basis for political authority, but we would turn that around and say that the moral order without consideration of the natural law of evolution, is an inadequate basis for political authority. Indeed, TC believes that evolution is a theological concern in essence.
When Burke spoke of the wisdom of the ancient structure of our civilization and the “contract of eternal society” he was not speaking of evolution, but he should have been. There is nothing older or more eternal on earth or in the Kosmos than the process of evolution. Human history and the moral order of our civilization, which Conservatives prefer to follow, as they well should, are not as ancient or eternal as evolution.
In the spirit of Conservatism we seek, with the Theoevolutionary Church (TC) to “refurbish the wardrobe of moral imagination” (Burke-Kirk), perhaps like Plato and Burke, by adapting the ancient structures of evolution to civilization and to religion. In EC the Involutionary Inward Path of Traditional Religion, which taught us primarily about the Soul and the God Within, is refurbished with the Evolutionary Outward Path of the Evolution to Godhood, the way to the Real God.
Evolutionary Sociobiology has taught us that the enduring principles, social institutions and human nature, defined by Conservatism, are grounded in the enduring principles of Evolution, which in fact, help ground the ancient religion that conservatives affirm.
Some conservatives think that “natural law” is an inadequate basis for political authority, but we would turn that around and say that the moral order without consideration of the natural law of evolution, is an inadequate basis for political authority. Indeed, TC believes that evolution is a theological concern in essence.
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