Hand-waving words? Do you think that murder, theft, and mayhem only warrant hand-waving? And I don’t believe that mankind per se has a goal. I think individuals or groups of individuals may, but in and of itself, mankind does not.
If there were no God to forbid them, yes we could excuse them all for the sake of short term gain.
You will lose in the long run to those who DO believe that mankind has a goal... unless of course with hand waving you can put over the idea on them that it does not.
I fight you explicitly on this one. I evangelize....
And the idea that mankind has a goal is dangerous to you, because it might step up to “science” one day and tell it that there is somewhere even it should not go.