Theological materialism transforms the deepest ends of both religion and science

Two great minds, German Catholic philosopher Josef Pieper (1904 –1997) and living sociobiologist E. O. Wilson were brilliant in elucidating their means but middling in perceiving their ends. Theological materialism transforms the deepest ends of both religion and science.

Ideas are expressions of the biological origin of human social behavior related to whatever field the ideas are presenting. This includes the ideas of religion, philosophy, politics, art, etc, which usually define the moral superiority of their causes. Ideas often mask the will to life of biology. But the idea of the biological origin of social behavior obviously does does not mask the biological origin of social behavior.

We can indeed immanentize the eschaton, attain 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 ascending levels of Godhood.