What kind of progress?

It is the kind of progress that we need to get right. Do we want to develop only artificial intelligence or do we want to develop more intelligent biological human beings, and beyond? Transhumanism tends to want to bypass the political incorrectness of biological developing increasingly intelligent human beings in favor of developing artificial machine intelligence. 

Nature is the source of reliable laws if we can discern them. Religion, philosophy and science don't impose order on nature, nature imposes whatever order there is on them. The concern is that we don't develop a machine utopianism which rejects human nature and biology and rejects the past in favor of only the future, which many utopias do. 

What we have is more a drive to seek to exist, which is a vital activating force of life. Devolution and barbarism are always a possibility, as conservatism warns us.  But not because evil dwells in hearts of men. Devolution and barbarism mainly happen because human biological evolution is not made conscious within the culture.  This is the base of a new bioconservatism. New beauty, intelligence and healthy character can come when evolution is seen as a natural development within the sacred forces of life. This is where theoretical science, philosophy and religion may dwell in the future, helping us to evolve to Godhood in the cosmos with biological enhancements from eugenics and genetic engineering. Artificial machine intelligence as a tool, not a goal.