Abstract Back
Science
today has been driven to place serious vetoes on the possibility of postulating
certain «finalities» in the putting into practice of natural evolutionist
dynamics.
Evolutionary processes, left
to themselves, are not capable of working towards the emergence of a predetermined
objective, unless they call upon continuous «corrective intervention»
in earthly events by means of «divine providential supervision»
of every infinitesimal natural dynamic.
In an indeterministic, evolutionist context the teleology of creation is not
centred either on a particular living species or on the existence superior ethical
values, which intervene, watch over, veto and sanction.
No teleology had ever been able to coherently originate from a similar alliance
among indeterminism, chaos and freedom.
No teleology has ever been able to place
the ontological relationship between God and man, between creator in the whole
of creation into a framework like this. This represents a new milestone in human
thought, quite undreamed of in all our past. A philosophic step of incommensurable
importance.
The distinction is centred around a dichotomic classification of the «theistic»
universe, of religious beliefs, into two fundamental types: that of real 'religions'
(systems which do not have moral divinities) and that of 'theo-eto-tomies' (a
neologism meaning models where the divinity takes on all seeing and moral qualities,
leading to a division - tomy - in the ethical sphere).
We can demonstrate that the intrinsic quality of the «religious»
models is that of being perfectly coherent with the physical and cosmological
evolutionist-indeterministic conception, in particular with the evolutionist
theories on the origin of man.
In conclusion, this research proposes a conception of divinity, of God and of
the human being, capable of putting forward a theological, anthropological and
cosmological theory which is finally free from heavy ideological content which
until now has always formed our ideas of God and divinity. This new approach
is both objective and intelligible.