[grey_whiskers]

Of course there is spiritual evolution! I just take that for granted. I have direct evidence of it in my own life; plus as a student of culture, I know that man from the dawn of human history has been trying to understand the Cosmos and his place in it. In the process, certain great spiritual themes or truths have emerged that are astonishingly durable over time. They are so essentially basic, that each age reimagines them in its own way, building on the past with a view toward the future.

...careful with the definitions there, betty...

e.g. 'Darwinian' evolution refers to distributions of alleles within populations, where by the interplay of a number of factors (random drift, selection / deselection due to fitness, changes in environment) these distributions (*and the populations* themselves) change over time.(*)

You appear to be using the word in terms of development or progression of individuals, or of communities of individuals in association or communication with each other. And presumably, under the guidance or tutelage of divine inspiration and grace. Whether this would be concerned with 'memes' is beyond the scope of the current post ;-)

(*) Is there 'Spiritual' selection ?? -- "I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy"; "the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete" etc. Probably beyond the state of the art to inquire...and no "reset" button on history to test it empirically [with a nod to Coyoteman].

[betty boop]

Evolution has a perfectly good meaning, with or without association with Darwinian evolution. If Darwinists want to define it a particular way, I don't have a problem with that. But that partial definition does not exhaust all the possibilities of meaning carried by that word. Certainly it appears the universe itself evolves. That may or may not have anything to do with "zoological evolution," as William James calls it, let alone Neodarwinism with its differentiation of genes, alleles, etc.

Thans for your scrupulosity grey_whiskers!