Harmonizing Religion and Science

The highest goal of politics and culture is more than survival and reproductive success, important as these are, and more than the classical goal of peace and justice. What is missing from science and sociobiology are the more holistic trans-political and religious goals. Science doesn't give a whole enough account of life, but then religion also needs the insights of science.

The science of sociobiology says to me that science can define values, it is not really blocked by the “fact-value distinction,” sociobiology has brilliantly told us about ourselves and why we do what we do, but also sociobiology attaches value to the survival and reproductive success which primarily drives our biologically and culturally behavior.

Modern science is the technical version of old classical reason, even if traditional theology doesn't agree, and science helps us understand the natural laws which can give us universally valid ends. When faith, intellectual intuition and practical thought are allowed into the dynamic of science and natural law, then we can affirm nature evolving materially and supermaterially to Godhood in the cosmos. The “font” of natural law can be seen as the Spirit-Will-To-Godhood which activates life to evolve to Godhood, shaped by outside evolution.

Without revelation, intellectual intuition and faith, science can in fact lead to such things as communism and fascism with life reduced to earthly survival of the fittest, selfish imperialism, or one-race nationalism, because whether it uses science well or not it sees nothing more than the truths that it uses science to discover. Liberal humanism also uses science as its foundation but with with less rationalizing of brutality.

When sciences such as sociobiology are attached to evolutionary religion then the goals of life are transformed from mere survival and reproductive success to long term evolution in the cosmos. This is how evolutionary religion can harness the tension between religion and science, revelation and reason. It can be seen that our evolution requires more than one-race nationalism or egalitarian imperialism. The reality of our populated planet says if we are to survive and evolve out into the cosmos we all need to evolve in our own distinctive ways with cooperative competition between a variety of states and groups. Our goal is Godhood, which ultimately means we are evolving far beyond even the human species or the present races of man.