Is it through evolution, on a process of change that we transform ourselves and become more like a loving, non-violent god?

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND THEOLOGY(2022)

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Many classical theodicy questions remain unanswered, one of which is: if God has created humans, why are we so violent? On the other hand, anthropologists and geneticists have their own questions about human violence, including: is modern man/woman more or less violent than the earliest Homo sapiens? Considering that the genus Pan and Homo are phylogenetically sister clades, is homicidal behaviour (conspecific lethal violence) in Homo sapiens the result of our genetic kinship? And, do sociocultural evolutionary processes modulate human violence? I put forth a model of integral evolution to address the theological theodicy problems in the light of evolutionary knowledge. I examine how the genetic component of spirituality/religiosity, subject to natural selection, as well as the cultural (environmental) component of spirituality/religiosity (such as doctrine and religious practices) may contribute to the reduction of lethal social violence. This integral evolution would thereby bring humanity 'closer' to being 'the image of a loving God' through a continuous unfinished evolutionary process (evolution towards self-transcendence). This model shows how this behavioural trait (human violence) is subject to natural selection, modulated by cognitive evolution and the sociocultural environment, including spirituality/religiosity as a component of this gene-environmental modulation.
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theosis, conspecific, biological, social, cognitive-cultural
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