The concept of evolution has done a lot of damage to society. There are several component parts to the concept.
Spontaneous changes arise from time to time and grow into useful alternatives.
The danger here is that we just sit back in the belief that new ideas have always arisen 'from time to time' and therefore there is nothing we can do about it. And nothing we need to do about it. On the contrary, deliberate and formal creativity can produce powerful effects and we do not simply have to sit back and wait for 'spontaneous' changes. That entities continuously grow and progress so what we have today is the evolved perfection of ages. This belief is totally contrary to the behaviour of self-organising systems which reach a state of 'local equilibrium' from which it is very difficult to budge them.