Evolutionary conservatism and theological materialism can overcome the loss of religious direction and the nihilism of modern thinking

Evolutionary conservatism is a biologically informed approach to the study of human behavior and politics, evolutionary conservatism adds to and deepens conservatism. Theological materialism affirms the material biological evolution of man all the way to Godhood; but in a conservative way.

Evolutionary conservatism adds to and deepens basic paleoconservatism by affirming the biological origin of social behavior. Human nature is biologically kin-centered and ethnic-centered, even xenophobic, as well as being genetically gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual, marriage-making, hierarchical, and religious-making, with group-selection and ethnic selection as the primary unit of successful selection.

Even "order," which is so important to Burke and Kirk, is put in place because orderly societies are more successful in survival and reproduction than disorderly societies. But like the liberals and neoconservatives the paleoconservative's block or conceal the ethnic-centered and xenophobic parts of human nature due it seems to universalist religious edicts.

If real kin and ethnic-centered human nature was allowed to be what it is, it would naturally lead to regionalism, localism, general conservative values, eventually ethnostates, and finally an ethnopluralism of ethnostates for all groups, black, white, brown, yellow, or red, with each ethnostate protected from marauding imperialists, global businesses, supremacists, Marxists, etc., and defended by a defensive federalism. An ethnopluralism of ethnostates could be established legally in the United States with our constitutional separation of powers and states.

Paleoconservative 's are very skeptical of human progress and “shun the worship of material progress, particularly when that progress is linked to government efforts to improve human nature.” (Clyde Wilson) Theological materialism sees material progress as life infused with the upward climb of evolution toward ascending levels of Godhood at the zenith of material evolution, which we can and should aid with the evolutionary sciences.

Natural law in evolutionary conservatism brings a conservatism grounded in the transcendent order of material evolution to Godhood, which counters both the stagnation of traditional conservatism and the nihilism of modern thinking. The coming species will evolve far beyond the human species, and far beyond increased human consciousness to God-Consciousness.

We need to love and protect our own groups, states and nations, as human nature and our human instincts intend us to do, but we also need to think and move beyond the human species toward evolving future and better species, all the way to Godhood. This is a worldview which can overcome the loss of religious direction and the nihilism of modern thinking.