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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