Freedom and determinism, good and evil

Mankind evolved the ability to make quick and supposedly “free” decisions in his daily quest for survival, this allowed freedom around the edges between various genetically determined choices related to the  environment one lived in. Good and evil needs to be considered within this dynamic of evolution.

If one believes as I do that the general thrust of life is deterministically evolving from the simple to the complex, from unconsciousness to consciousness toward Godhood in the cosmos, then our somewhat limited human freedom in making choices can take us away from the general thrust of upward evolution, even toward devolution.

But what is devolution (“evil”) in itself can also be seen as a means to evolution (“good”), positive evolutionary mutations can come from difficult environmental conditions, for example, the brutal Ice Age led to much improved survival intelligence.