Of course, before you can go there you have to define what consciousness is! If you define it as something akin to a computer program, then that might be possible, but your conclusion probably derives from your weak definition.
We certainly agree there!
Shorn of its politics global warming would be an extraordinarily uninteresting meteorological phenomenon which would itself be subsumed by the physics of gases. Evolution is utterly different, because I for one am convinced that the ID crowd have put forward convincing proof that species evolve as a result of intelligent design with RM+NS contributing in a minor way. Did you ever read my discussion of Behe's book?
https://www.skeptiko-forum.com/threads/behes-argument-in-darwin-devolved.4317/
In Darwin's day, genes were conceived of very vaguely, but now we know that they are composed of long strings of DNA bases maybe even Darwin would retract his theory.
But isn't the concept of a field in physics equally vacuous?
Well it is easy to think of evil deeds that were not caused by ignorance - listen to any of Alex's 'evil podcasts', so I would say, is there such a think as evil caused by ignorance? Maybe an example would help?
David