"Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. It is a sort of atheistic optimism, based on an everlasting coincidence far more miraculous than a miracle. If there be no purpose, or if the purpose permits of human free will, then in either case it is almost insanely unlikely that there should be in history a period of steady and uninterrupted progress; or in other words a period in which poor bewildered humanity moves amid a chaos of complications, without making a single mistake." -- G.K. Chesterton, What I Saw in America
The modern sense of progress in the absence of a providential God assumes that the accident of our existence is fated to perpetually advance in the right direction although unguided by any overarching principle other than pluck and luck. This agnostic optimism asserts that things will continue to improve without any reason to expect that outcome other than a blind assertion of hubris. The arrogance of atheistic evolution is the assumption that chaos is inerrant, never making a mistake and always advancing without any accountability or supervision.
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