Beyond teaching the facts of evolution, a goal of this web site is to help you feel at home in this evolving cosmos. By understanding our place in the evolving cosmos, you can create more joy and prosperity in your life.

One of the big challenges in celebrating evolution is overcoming destructive philosophies promoted in the name of evolution.  For over 150 years, people have been overly influenced by the negative interpretations of evolution, such as “eugenics”, “survival of the most ruthless,” the belief that “life is merely random and meaningless”, and “descent from slime gives license to behave like slime.”  These ideas fail to offer a comprehensive or accurate view of evolution.  These limited portrayals of evolution offer little to celebrate.   In fact, these limited understandings lead to various forms of existential angst, which in turn leaves people vulnerable to helplessness, depression, and anxiety.

In contrast to these ideas, the information on this web site draws from the most up to date evidence, which gives us a richer, more nuanced and more comprehensive view of evolution. Many recent discoveries offer a more accurate view of reality so that we may live more in harmony with this reality.  And this is a reason to celebrate!

Celebrating dialog between science and religion

If you listen to the “news” you might believe that all religions are at odds with science.  Like other “fake news” this is not a reflection of reality.   The reality is that religions, like everything else in the universe, are evolving, and more and more religious people are embracing and celebrating the Epic of Evolution.  Science and religion are two complementary projects helping people become the fullest expressions of themselves. To paraphrase Galileo, “Religion shows the way to go to heaven and science shows the way the heavens go.”

To help you make sense of the relationship between science and religion, this site provides a clearinghouse of links to sites that foster dialog between evolution and religion.  More and more religious people are exploring and discussing spirituality in the light of evolution.

The main goal of this web site is to help each person flourish in the future. Understanding the past lets us understand principles that can guide us in creating an optimal future.

Already, an evolutionary worldview is helping people flourish, on personal and planetary levels.  On a personal scale, the light of evolution is transforming the fields of nutrition, exercise, medicine, and psychology to enhance and prolong people’s lives.  On the planetary scale, evolutionary science is helping us avoid meteors and mitigate and ease the effects of climate change.

For example, the Keto Diet is one of the fastest-growing diets. By understanding how people evolved, scientists have learned principles of nutrition to help reverse chronic diseases such as diabetes, autoimmune disease, obesity, and dementia.

Another example is in the field of psychology and neuroscience.   In light of evolution, we know that many of our behaviors are subconscious and evolved to help our ancestors survive when food was scarce or we were the food.  Many of these same behaviors cause us problems today.  We eat for the famines that never come and become obese.  Our “fight or flight” reflexes are triggered when there is no real danger.   In the light of evolution, we can be free of our inherent drives to overeat and to over-worry.

Collectively, the Epic of Evolution helps us flourish in the future.   We know that what killed the dinosaurs will not kill us. Humans now have the technology to deflect incoming asteroids, thereby saving sentient life on Earth.

Yet great challenges remain.   Thanks to insights from the Epic of Evolution, we know that the climate on Earth is always changing and at times, has not been ideal for human life.  With this information, we are able to find solutions to insuring an optimal climate.

“We cannot save our planet unless humankind undergoes a widespread spiritual and religious awakening.”
~ Paul Hawken, author of Blessed Unrest,

At the heart of this awakening is an inspiring and accurate evolutionary worldview.