The religious procession of evolution, devolution, good and bad

Conservative tradition can be thought of as a pause, a gathering of life to conserve the new improved discoveries of evolution before evolution proceeds again. Conservatism for its own sake is not enough, conservatism requires the activation of evolution or it stagnates. Rather than defining devolution as evil or bad, or defining evil as the absence of evolution, I would adapt Hegel's dialectical dynamic of thesis, antithesis, synthesis in an evolutionary way.

If Aquinas is seen as defining good in relation to the Involutionary Inward Path to the Father Within, or the God Within, one can then adapt the insight of Aquinas that evil is the absence of good in a dialectical way---the Inward Path of Christianity is seen as a pause for the symbolic-experience of what Godhood will be like, not merely a devolution, not evil, but a dialectical stage we can retain before proceeding on in the Evolutionary Outward Path to real Godhood.

Evolution for the sake of evolution is not enough, evolution can be seen as seeking Godhood, the sacred goal of life. This is where I expand on Cattell's scientific religion of Beyondism. This is where religion moves beyond present science which sees no purpose or design to evolution. This may change with future knowledge of the essence of life and evolution. Then perhaps modern knowledge can truthfully affirm religion again.