March of progress

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The March of Progress can be seen as the details of an intricate self-organizing fractal pattern revealing itself over time.

Many insist that there is no "direction" to things like history, religion, or evolution, however this is more a result of confusing the random component of the generating equation with true randomness. While there will always be variation, the underlying theme will always reveal itself in time.

Evolution

While the specific human form is not an inevitable result of evolution, the emergence of intelligence absolutely is. Species that live in water evolve gills to extract oxygen from water, and those that live in air develop lungs. Far from being random they are necessary adaptations to the environmental conditions. Intelligence is the ultimate adaptation and always bound to evolve just like the lungs, the eye, opposable thumbs and so many of the other things that make humans what they are. An alternate evolved intelligence could be different in many ways, but the functional components would all be there in some format. As such the eventual rise of an organism with all of these general components is inevitable.

Religion

The number of gods humanity believes in has marched steadily downward as time goes on. Animism started out with an individual god for every important thing. These coalesced into polytheism with gods for all the big concepts. Then came monotheism where they all became a single god and the god concept was able to maximize its effect. But each monotheistic religion has its own god and so they will inevitably reduce to a single universal god.