Monday, February 09, 2015

Sacred cause and purpose in the modern world


If science cannot find a main purpose, a cause, a goal behind life, this does not mean that life has no goal. But a mathematical formula may not be complete knowledge of a thing, and neither will be a mere definition. Men tend to reduce all phenomena to the level of men with human senses and human mathematics, but any Godhood attained by way of evolution will be way beyond man and beyond man's senses and mathematics. But we do still want to affirm what is “right by nature,” as Aristotle put it, and this means we examine nature by various means including reason, intuition and even some form of revelation.

Theological materialism seeks to answer this question of purpose and goal. The general word “evolution” explains an enormous fact, but why a given life is used for this purpose is not fully explained. We evolve not merely for survival and reproductive success but because life seeks the zenith of survival, truth, and beauty in evolution, which helps define Godhood, the Godhood religions have been trying to define for millenniums. Nature is not God, nature becomes Godhood by way of life evolving to Godhood in the material and supermaterial world. The central question for religion, philosophy and science then becomes: what is the best way for life to evolve to Godhood? And cultural creations follow from that foundation.

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