Your edit reminds me of a friend who expressed fear of the evil living forever through Tech.

I laughed, cause even as a spiritualist he is, I managed to explain that God (or whatever created us) is like a parent. And as parents. It is natural to want and witness our spirit becoming greater than ourselves. That one day we will all move on to a new level of the spirit. Leaving behind this level of the Mortal coil behind.

And the evil? They're attempting to evolve horizontally. They will never ascend.