Why Evolution?

Life is not so much a “force-establishing process” as Nietzsche suggested (The Will To Power) with no goal, life is a Godhood-establishing process by way of evolution. But life does seem to be evolving not toward stability or equilibrium, life just keeps on evolving higher and higher, even as it also devolves occasionally.

What does this say about the evolution toward complexity? Nietzsche suggested that complexity can be a simplifying process as well. Evolution simplifies an unwieldy mass, with a sort of refined complexity. The evolution of life is more a “continually increasing but persistently simplifying process.” But contra Nietzsche, evolution is more than only a force-establishing process.

I describe the Spirit-Will-To-Godhood of theological materialism as a plurality of forces bound not so much as a common “nutritive process” or “force-establishing process” but as the inward activation of life toward the zenith of evolution, which is Godhood. The Spirit-Will activation then works with the outside forces of selection and evolution in whatever environment life finds itself in.

Evolution and adaptability explain what happens, but not why. The Spirit-Will-To-Godhood and not the will to power alone is “a means, an instrument in service to higher life, and the elevation of life.” Our consciousnesses has not been fully aware of this process, which created consciousness.