Evolution and Intelligent Design

Evolutionary consciousness brings to human awareness the transformational dynamic of rational “trimorphism”, the three-step processes of communication, consciousness and conscience. From this “process of rationality” (the design of intelligence) we come to understand moral valuation and other social dynamics that parallel and deepen the implications of communication, consciousness and conscience.

1. Mutuality, complementarity and subsidiarity: The trustful communication between parties energizes their mutual working. Consciousness gives rise to understandings of the potentials of likenesses and differences; and conscience compels right conduct to accommodate likenesses and differences to the necessities at hand, what is the working of subsidiarity. In the working of these, intentional mutuality affects social ascendancy and personal authenticity.

2. Ecology, economy and Eucharist: All communication happens in the ecological context for our origin and sustainability are in the ecological context. Distrustful and misinformed communication intervenes ecological purposes and effects the exploitation and degrading of natural ecology. Misinformed presumptions about natural/ ecological dependency misinform consciousness and unwittingly give free reign to consumptive excess and unjustified behavior. Misinformation and misbehavior intervene the Eucharistic intentionality of ecological intelligence and thwarts the work and obligation of conscience.

3. Faith, hope and love: Trustful (truthful) communication is the basis of authentic consciousness working and of consciousness coming to hopeful expectations; thwarted consciousness and frustrated hope betray love, the motivation of conscience, the action agency.

Presented here are three sets of intelligent design mechanisms by which human community is enabled to live in moral relationship and exemplify the Christian understanding of the divine Trinitarian Community. Personally and socially, we are supremely accountable to emulate Godlikeness in the intentional living of faith, hope and love, what are virtues common to moral relationships and to religion that is true.