The goal of evolving to Godhood need not deprive us of either science or religion

Tusar Nath Mohapatra listed them as Kant's sublime, Hegel's absolute, Darwin's evolution, Schopenhauer's will, Marx's matter, Kierkegaard's passion, Nietzsche's overman, and Bergson's elan vital. In theological materialism all of them help define the material activation within life of the will or Tirips.

Those who believe in the complete randomness of evolution, the vast majority of scientists, often make dismissive comments regarding any kind of direction to evolution, usually in footnotes to show its unimportance to the text, but then the footnote’s are often emotional and long, protesting too much. I find the arguments that evolution is “non-purposive” and random as closed as the religious arguments denying evolution, information is lacking in both arguments.

I believe this great process of evolution is activated from within every atom and within every cell of living bodies, which then react and adapt to the various outside environments that life lives in. This activation includes the same activation that leads to the desire to successfully survive and reproduce. This sacred activation, which I call Tirips, is a material/supermaterial activation, not spiritual, and it works along with natural selection and evolution.

The goal of evolving to Godhood need not deprive us of either science or religion. Defining the Will or Tirips as internally activating life toward evolving toward higher and higher forms, and eventually to Godhood, may be a bit further than some people want to go, but I think we need to go there. I hope such a drive and direction will one day be acknowledged by science. and religion.

Contrary to traditional religion we can indeed immanentize the eschaton, attain ascending levels of Godhood directly within nature and evolution, when we affirm that evolution moves inevitably in a pattern, even though it 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, all the way to Godhood. Our mission is to help it along the way.