Technology yes, but religion guides goalless technology

Evolution has usually required boundaries and separations, which led to the evolution of man. Some anthropologists have suggested that some religions and social philosophies smashed the machinery of evolution when they tried to break down all boundaries of separation.

In religion I think this was not done to destroy evolution, it was done to identify the God Within as the same for all people. In effect this probably led to the humanistic idea that all men are the same and that the individual needs to be sacrificed to ones fellowman, as in the extreme example of Marxism.

Genetic engendering may make changes in the trajectory and speed of evolution, but general human nature living in nature will remain a strong influence.  New technology and artificial evolution can be synthesized into natural patterns of evolution and selection without overwhelming the whole natural project of evolution. That is, the very basic human traits of group selection and kin selection will be strong and evolution will therefore still create boundaries and separations.

Some people may even promote technology to bypass or block "politically incorrect" natural evolution and the natural separations of people. It seems best not to get too far ahead of human nature in trying to replace natural evolution with technology, as trans-humanism and the singularization with machines seem to be suggesting. Evolution is usually not revolution.

The Evolutionary Outward Path to Godhood, for all men, is the antidote to the breakdown of natural evolution caused in part by the Involutionary Inward Path to the God Within, which all men share. One leads to the other. The goal is vital, not merely progress for the sake of progress, or evolution for the sake of evolution: evolution to Godhood is the goal. Technology yes, but religion guides goalless technology.