7/18/2005

Books on evolution for Creationists?

From Science For The People
In a message dated 7/18/2005 3:34:20 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, X@... writes:

Does any one have a suggestion for a book on evolution that might makesense for a young highly orthodox Jew who is shocked that his friend, adistant relative of mine, from an orthodox background himself, nowbelieves in it, but has promised to read such a book?

Reply (JLandon)
First he was brainwashed by the Bible, now he's to be brainwashed on Darwinian terms. What is the meaning of evolution....? Spare the fellow. Tell him it's all propaganda on both sides.

The right book? Why not my World History and the Eonic Effect. There the core Old Testament is seen in its true light as a world-historical first: a primitive record of the proto-'eonic' observer, detecting the great Axial era in one isolated area. The 'eonic' history of Israel is far more exciting than the propaganda concocted after the Exile, by redactors whose basic message was 'Don't know what hit us' The Old Testament needs a version upgrade, and deserves to be thought of in secular terms, finally, under the aegis of Universal History done right.

With this approach you get evolution, and a new secular understanding of the Old Testament, in many ways better than the religious myth, which nobody really believes anymore...

Note: The history of 'Israel' (Israel/Judah, the Canaanite geo-zone in the eonic sequence) is a genuine account of 'evolution' in the eonic sense (the 'eonic evolution' of civilization), truly a unique interval in the overall emergentism of world civilization on the way toward globalization.

Time for secularists to reflect on how remarkable the OT really is, without getting ambushed by religious issues. The Old Testament isn't actually a religious book at all, and is far more interesting for what it plainly is, which is....
John LandonWorld History And The Eonic Effect2nd EditionSelections from new edition &Darwiniana: Evolution Bloghttp://eonix.8m.com/