Feel free to take part in evolution yourself, but leave the rest of us out of it. I feel no allegiance to evolution as a cause or god; it's just a natural process.
The one description that makes most sense to me is the claim that evolution is not a god. It does not reason through issues, it does not have conscience and it definitely does not have goals.
It is just a thing that happens through random changes and culling out very bad experiments. The mutation just have to be not too bad. And even bad one can survive forever if not everyone with it dies.
You got lost in the meta. There's a difference between someone's beliefs about evolution, which might be true, false, or nonexistent; versus evolution itself, which is a force that will act on us regardless of what we believe.
Are we evolved to have religion? Maybe, but the answer to that has absolutely nothing to do with the question of whether or not evolution itself is true.
I very much believe evolution has a higher purpose. Nothing alive would exist if it didn't. It's not nice, though... [1]
Unfortunately, whether it's just physics, a simulation, or aliens, it's bad news in every case, and I don't see myself relating to the view that evolution is beautiful or has any interest whatsoever in moral progress anytime soon.
And while it doesn't take a God to start evolution, it would take a God to stop it.
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