There are some people who directly or indirectly worship evolution/nature as one would a God or a religion. But they are wrong in doing so. Evolution or Nature (which is a broader term to define the concept) is indeed a knowledge creation process but that doesn't mean that is is "right" or "moral". Just the fact that we are born out of Nature (through the process of evolution) does not make Nature itself some grand, god-like thing which is not to be questioned. In fact I am arguing to the contrary - I think a lot of Nature is in fact immoral.
Morality is a field of philosophy as it applies to conscious beings, which includes us. It is a question of "what to do next". We do not have very good theories of morality yet (e.g. we do no have a theory of morality that is as good as quantum theory is for physics). Morality is distinct from the sciences and hence it is distinct from Nature/evolution. Nature does not, by default, have the "right" morality built into it. It does have some morality since all knowledge creation requires some morality. But, like what I said earlier, I think it has a lot of immoral theories built into it.
One of the biggest reasons for this is that Nature has violence built into it, and along with that immense suffering. I have written about it in a previous post that every death of a human is a tragedy - and "Nature" is responsible for most of those deaths. It kills the conscious humans WITHOUT their approval - so that's coercion and violence. And coercion and violence are immoral (this also, obviously, can be questioned but we need certain axioms to build moral theories in the same manner we need certain axioms to build mathematics e.g. 1+1=2 is an axiom that can't be proven).
Nature/Evolution creates conscious beings, causes them to suffer during their lifetime and eventually kills them against their will (most of the times). That's immoral.
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