The ideal has a prominent role in Western science, culture and religion. The ideal is a fixed absolute ultimate perhaps infinite goal or destination. The evolution of life seems to be a divergent process with no fixed goals.
Evolution creates values such as human love.
It is not a response to values. Perhaps we should replace the notion of a final, ultimate or absolute ideal with the understanding that the universe is creatively evolving not to a fixed goal but to an ever more diverse and marvelous range of possibilities. To strive for a fixed ideal is ultimately to stagnate. Mathematics is the purest expression of an intellect that wants to figure out the logical steps to obtain a specific goal. It is natural to idealize this process and think in terms of ultimate ideal goals.