Evolutionary Argument for God

It would seem logical to deduce that if the universe is infinite, which it seems hard to deny that it is as this would imply a necessary being to determine its limits, then all things are possible, and all things happen at some time in some place. Since it is logically problematic to suggest a pre-existing necessary being. I will not attempt to do so. Instead I will take a more transhuman position and put forth the notion that omnipotence is the ultimate goal of evolution.

Evolution determines that all life evolves to be at balance (singling out a single species can lead to a misconception) and to minimise individual energy expenditure. Humans are the highest terrestrial life-form because their will is strong enough to impose their own order, despite the mistakes made as this editing process, like any skilful process, requires practice. Being capable of anything would not only be the greatest extension of this, but also, due to the ability to perform any feat, the state in which energy expenditure approaches zero. It is therefore evolution’s final goal.

Having established the above it is necessary to return to the idea of a pre-existing necessary being. If we assume that this being exists and is perfect in every way, then it must understand that it has no limits and has no need to limit the universe in any dimension or possibility. If the being is perfect in its form then it would have established evolution based on its own being, which means that its qualities should be in perfect balance, resulting in total benevolence to the point of absolute non-interference. Thus the universe would be made infinite so that interference was never required.

But the being need not be pre-existent to the universe. Taking into account evolution’s goals, we can infer two things, the first being that our current state-of-being is not perfectly efficient and can be improved upon, and the second is that our will, and skill with reality manipulation is not sufficient to acquire either a more efficient form or to bring about a more total order in the way we wish it to be. The idea that the natural order in place Is ideal can be dismissed as it would, given the inevitability of a human-like civilisation, prevent the final goal of evolution.

The reason why the being need not be pre-existent is that if the beings form is perfect it will be immune to all physics, and thus distinct from both space and time, therefore even though potentially born as a finite being it could become an infinite being. Because distinct from time, this being will have always existed, thus pre-existing the universe (upon which is does not rely to continue existing, being perfect), but since it has already been established that the universe is infinitely infinite, then it is a contradictory notion that pre-existence is even possible, and thus the being becomes not a creator but an editor or maintainer (were it not benevolent to the point of absolute non-interference).

Talk of a ‘goal of evolution’ under this model is not a divine imposition but a final push towards the ideal of balance. It has been known since the ancient Greek philosophers that balance is better than imbalance, and is taken by many as a truism beyond context. Imbalances in society change by the will of the people in an attempt to find perfect balance, though it would be a mistake for one to assume that a single socio-political system can achieve this (as politics will have a breadth of infinite size then an infinite number of inter-socio-political systems would eliminate the need for a unifying socio-political system, with the only true unifier being omnipotence). Thus, balance is not so much a goal but an inevitability, and this balance can only be absolutely fulfilled through the acquisition of omnipotence.

Therefore God can exist.