Material evolution doesn't cancel out old traditions since evolution has saved the best of the past

Traditional philosopher's believe that philosophy wrongly moved toward Bacon's “knowledge is power,” to Descarte's practical view of philosophy controlling nature, to Marx's view of philosophy as changing the world, and that philosophy wrongly moved away from the classical “purely theoretical” essence of philosophy. But even “purely theoretical” philosophy is grounded in the material elements of thinking, and the material elements of thinking are connected to the constant changes of material evolution.

Material evolution doesn't cancel out old traditions since evolution has saved the best of the past---that which has been successful in survival and reproduction---even as evolution finds new successful adaptations. Human nature in that way genetically evolved conservative and traditional traits like being kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual, marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, religious-making, with group-selection (altruism toward the related group) as the primary unit of selection, followed by individual selection.

This does not affirm the utopian changes of Marxism which seeks changes ungrounded in the biological origin of social behavior or the biological origin of real human nature, which genetically saves the best of the past.

I add the philosophy of theological materialism, which sees evolution moving inevitably in the pattern described by Raymond Cattell, even though evolution has its random elements---and the pattern has a discernible direction, in spite of instances of stagnation and retreat, toward higher and higher more effective living forms, always evolving toward Godhood. That is a philosophy of sacred conservative change that I can accept.