Human nature and nature itself can be models for both the moral and social order. The problem for modernity seems to come in defining human nature and nature itself.
The fact is we are not free to act in any way we please, that is license, which Claude Polin called the lowest form of freedom. Modernity often denies that there even is a human nature. Libertarians tend to think that the only law is not to harm others, but everything else seems to be permitted.
When we try to go against what we actually are, that is, against human nature, we tend to cause the general decadence we see of modernity, committing unnatural or unauthentic license rather than real freedom. Even the smallest change in human nature and our DNA structure, for example, in our immune system, takes hundreds of thousands of years, we remain kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, and religious-making, among other things, with group-selection as the primary unit of selection.
There is a continuity between the sciences, religion and nature which needs to be acknowledged, but not in the closed way that tradition and conservatism often does. Human nature and nature itself includes the progressive freedom to evolve---but not with an unfettered license---we evolve within the ordered structure, or Ordered Evolution of human nature and nature itself.
Believing in evolution, progressive evolution, does not mean that human nature is denied, on the contrary, it is an affirmation of human nature and nature itself. Life is activated from within by the Spirit-Will to Godhood which is then shaped by natural evolution. Alas, science has yet to find anything other than entirely random evolution, and has not seen material life gradually evolving to supermaterial Godhood. And, alas, religion has put up a Great Spiritual Blockade against material and supermaterial evolution.
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