Friday, December 01, 2017

The missing link affirming religion in philosophical naturalism


Darwinian theory accepts only random variation and natural selection in defining evolution and lacks the Godhood goal-motivation coming from the sacred inward activation of life. I think this missing link is filled by the activation within life, within every cell of the body, demanding that metabolism and reproduction move toward the ultimate success of evolving to Godhood. That is, evolution works by way of changes originating internally along with the action of random variation and natural selection from the outside environment. And this inward activation, which I have called Tirips or spirit-will, is entirely material.

In the other missing link random variation and natural selection are missing from religion. The philosophy of theological materialism includes the sacred activation within evolutionary life, along with the randomness of outside evolution, with life moving toward ever more complex life forms, or at least toward higher evolved forms and intelligences (beauty, truth and goodness), all the way to Godhood, but then continuing on to higher stages of Godhood, endlessly, with starts, stops, sideways and backward-going along the the way... The death of religion and Godhood was premature, or immature.

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