Eugenics applied to the development of all ethnic groups

It must be nearing the time when we can accept that eugenics is not “racist” or evil when it is applied to the development of all ethnic groups. Normal people, couples, are already availing themselves of molecular biology, neuroscience, and genetics in reproduction. This is a voluntary not a dictatorial adventure.

Harmless or positive genetic mutations can be promoted toward more intelligence, character, health and beauty, as defined by the general consensus of the population, just as cultural innovations are defined and promoted. And many inherited cruel diseases can be avoided.

The big problem of genes and culture lagging behind innovators can now be humanely addressed, rationally as well as religiously, and decline may this way be circumvented, rather than waiting for chance to decide, which can be cruel to those who lag behind, and with shorter-term life for the innovators when revolutions rage.

The hedonism and nihilism of the present age can be changed, as science and religion finally combine. Society can then gradually move upward in evolution. We must not take the timid way of promoting only artificial intelligence to avoid being labelled politically incorrect in this devious and fickle time.

The religious element of theological materialism, reflected upon here, can help define and bond the ultimate goal of our evolution to Godhood, the God first experienced as the Father Within in the Inward Path of tradition, now retained but transformed in the Outward Path.