How the two ways of knowing of St. Thomas lead to theological materialism

I basically agree with the two ways of knowing of St. Thomas, the purely theoretical knowing, and knowing on the basis of an essential relatedness but I think these lead to theological materialism.

Today we might call these ways of knowing left and right brain knowing, although they work together more than the separation suggests, with some people synthesizing them more than others.

The theoretical knowing of the evolutionary sciences have gradually drawn a picture of human nature that has to be included in religious philosophy, but has not been done for the most part---although Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and others tried, their God remained a non-material spiritual God.

Teilhard. like the traditionalists, believed man has been developing a divine consciousness and that we must continue this process of the development of consciousness toward god-consciousness so that we can reach our greatest potential as human beings. But human beings cannot attain Godhood, only material evolution to whole supermaterial beings, not just spiritual consciousness, leads to real Gods in the cosmos.

The evolutionary sciences have empirically shown us that the origin of religion remains within the structure of the biological origin of social behavior, where religious bonding, at least in the early days, helped us survive and reproduce successfully. This in turn brought knowledge of group selection preferences toward kin and ethnic group that created the altruism, or being for others, which was later hypertrophied beyond the reach of both theoretical knowing and knowing on the basis of an essential relatedness.

So my position is that purely theoretical knowing and knowing on the basis of an essential relatedness leads to theological materialism, which is more or less placed in the worldview of philosophical naturalism with the difference being that philosophical naturalism is generally irreligious, and theological materialism is religious in seeing Godhood as the goal of material evolution not spiritual evolution, which was the goal first only mirrored in the Father-Within of traditional religion.