Saturday, March 19, 2011

The Deep Optimism Of Evolutionary Christianity

Matter is not evil and matter is not blind to good and evil. Matter is activated by the Spirit-Within, or the Will to Godhood, and then evolution shapes matter from without. Matter does not always evolve, sometimes it devolves, sometimes life dies, but all life is defined by its activation to evolve to Godhood.

This might seem to show that evolution from without is blind to good (evolution) and evil (devolution) yet even here natural selection chooses what is successful in survival and reproduction. The supermateral Spirit and material evolution both move toward Godhood. Man can help or enhance the natural direction of matter to evolve to higher and higher forms, the material world on its own can devolve, stay the same, die out, or destroy itself in entropy, even when the general direction of life is evolving toward higher and higher consciousness.

This defines the deep optimism of Theovolutionary based on faith, hope, evolutionary hypothesis, and reason. After-all, life evolved from the simple to the complex and toward more and more intelligence before we existed to even think about helping it along its way to its sacred goal of Godhood.

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