After the fall of
modern human morality rising with dissemination of Charles Darwin’s
opus ‘On the Origin of Species’ a plethora of ideas and
interpretations about the form and meaning of evolution theory grew
amidst the literati and government leaders that flowered like a
thousand forms of ragweed as well as sober scientific data. Many came
to view evolution as an inevitable progressive ascent of mankind. The
fact of natural history-an earlier name for evolution history of life
on Earth- that for every continuing biological line there probably
were countless others that went extinct, generally did not trouble
humanity that viewed the future with rose-colored glasses.
Especially
for those that felt oppressed by traditional Christian morality (that
was in itself usually misunderstood and already instead conformed to
model certain forms of secular social organization rather than that
of a priesthood of believers) evolution became a secular license to
abandon all morality while developing the idea that any sort of
previously immoral behavior leads to progress as a higher state is
evolved. That human behavior too can readily be extinctive behavior
leading to the extirpation of individuals or even the entire race
didn’t enter into the
evolution-as-amoral-goodness-leading-to-progress way of thought.
One might wonder
about evolution in the natural history of the Universe or Multiverse
and ask what role life has in it? Every physical process since the
start of the Universe has occurred inevitably as a result of prior
physical states of mass and energy. There were no accidents nor
randomization about the phase changes in the Universe that occurred
throughout it from the first instant of existence. A unified physical
force presumably part of a larger unified force somehow was released
into the void. It broke down into the Universe-spanning forces of
nature in existence today allowing numerous smaller particles and
wave forms to exist.
Gravity aggregated
much of the mass together to form stars, elements and planets, at
some point more complexity or breaking down of the initial somewhat
monopolar unified field/force let life exist. Life is a stage in the
way of the natural history of the Universe that inevitably unfolds;
yet one wonders what its role is and what phase change follows.
Jesus Christ said
that unless a seed is buried in cannot grow. He may have been
speaking about his own life and resurrection. It is possible that he
was also speaking about the role of life in the evolutionary
Universe. The teleology of life may be to give rise to sentience and
spirit reborn with faith unto a higher stage of progress.
Evolution of life in
a Universe that does not give rise to spirit would be in a conundrum
of paradox. Though it can produce complexity in phase with the
general physical direction of the breakdown of the initial unified
force, the complexity endangers its existence and may be
self-negating.
Life on Earth today
is in what natural historians call the Anthropocene Era (of mass
extinction). Human beings are bringing perhaps the largest mass
extinction of species on Earth to fruition. If biological diversity
that enables a variety of forms to exist that may allow some or even
one species to adapt to new environmental challenges is eliminated by
human beings, life’s chances of surviving environmental challenges
are much reduced. In fact, if humanity is the sole large mammal that
remains on Earth eventually and humanity must successfully adapt to
environmental change and cannot, then the last mammal will perish
too.
It
may have been the evolutionary biologist Jay Gould who wrote that the
most successful life form on Earth is the simplest and most numerous-
one that can survive nearly any environmental change. If I remember
correctly it was simple prokaryotic, multi-cellular life form. The
complexity of larger organisms through evolution make them more
vulnerable to extinction. Present human activities on the planet
exemplify the problem.
The Lord Jesus Christ
replied when asked once when he would return for his third coming
(His resurrection and appearance to his disciples was the second
coming of Christ) that it would be when the Age of the Gentiles was
fulfilled. The time of the fullness of human life on the Earth could
be taken to mean several things including the time it is most
populous on Earth with no prospects left for survival because of
over-population, or it could mean when humanity has served its
purpose of birthing souls destined for eternal life through salvation
through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. It is difficult to know
exactly what he meant when there are several alternate and equally
valid meanings that might be given to interpretation.
Evolution theory
brought many to simply abandon theological interest and faith in God.
That is rash as is the assumption that evolution is inconsistent with
Biblical creation; it isn’t at all an a wrote and that topic in a
couple of books. One is free to download named God, Cosmology and
Nothingness. What is rash is overlooking the meaning and structure of
evolution as it pertains to human life and its role in existence. In
no way does evolution entail the necessity of human progress toward a
secular Valhalla of immorality and hedonistic fulfillment. Humanity
should not abandon rational thought about finding the best ways to
adapt to existence on Earth given the phenomena of biological life
and limited natural resources. Self-determining philosophical failure
or neglect to comprehend the multifarious and complex mechanisms of
evolution and its place in natural history would tend to doom the
prospects for human life on Earth rather than support them.
If
humanity needs to adapt free enterprise creative and the distribution
of private and public capital to perpetuate human life in an optimal
way then it must. If halting environmental loss of bio-diversity and
habitat is necessary then humanity cannot afford to wait until it is
lost to respond to the challenge. There are innumerable ways to fail
along the lines of evolution rather than a few. In fact humanity
cannot theoretically determine its own place in natural history
comprehensively any more than one can create a set of all sets
including itself per Kurt Godel’s incompleteness theorems. The
hubris of belief that one can entirely determine human species
destiny as a self-reinforcing philosophy of greed is not reasonable
to keep. However humanity may be unable to meet the ecospheric
challenges of adapting its social and economic needs to the natural
and social realties it experiences these days. Leadership is lacking
thanks to the profusion of bad eschatology and the godless drift of
the Democrat party under the amoral philosophy of evolution.
Democrats acquiesced with devolution to membership in business-owned
union sycophancy under corporatist leadership.
The
shift of private capital into the control of a tiny minority is
itself destructive as is the destruction of secure national
boundaries and properties of rights under the aegis of godless
corporatism and miscellaneous social collectives. He challenges of
comprehending evolution and Christianity simultaneously are great for
a world population increasing too quickly toward ecospheric
breakdown. That too may be the very next phase though it seems
insufficient for the purpose of life in a theology of natural
history.
There are many
directions for humanity and political economy to take along the
evolutionary line that are wrong. Maybe there are fewer that are
right or that lead to survival. It is difficult to know prospectively
rather than retrospectively what economic and political lines would
work effectively and support human happiness too given the
challenging economic, environmental and socio-political challenges
for avoiding mass extinction of all mammalian life on Earth.
Evolution is a backward looking science. Its use as a forward-looking
political ideology isn’t well-suited.
As
a phase of matter, evolution has no meaning beyond whatever
teleological values humanity may infer that God provides for it.
For-itself as an empirical idea evolution is entirely meaningless. It
is a state akin to the oriental concept of joss such that whatever
is, is.
Transhumanist
theorists may exploit some Darwinian ideas of progress and of
directing evolution yet directed evolution by humanity hasn’t any
right direction. A thousand different designs could be said to be
equally right or wrong even though they are in complete conflict as
anti-thesis to one another. The complete complex of compresent
anti-thesis of evolution in-itself is an evolutionary state of
affairs as meaningless as any of the individual directions being
developed, and each have reciprocals interacting with and evolving in
relation to each directed evolutionary vector of human design.
Fundamentally it is better to use the word evolution with less
liberality than it is presently applied to virtually any desire to
change social structures where the implication is that it advances
biological Darwinian progress to a higher state. People may entirely
evolve beyond an ideal state or into a deleterious and extinctive
state as readily as moving toward a superior position viewed of
course, subjectively. It is better simply to reason with classical
virtue and philosophy toward good political and economic affairs
respective of God and the concept of divine grace, providence and
trust that honest work and due diligence are the better efforts even
while respecting individual rights of others as much as mackerel
respective the space of other mackerel schooling in the sea.
