11.07.05
Descent of Man Revisited
New Web book: Descent of Man Revisited
As the Darwin debate rages, mostly in vain, we are stuck with the dogmatic propagandas of two cultural factions, the Darwinian and religious fundamentalists. The results have hopelessly confused the issue of evolution.
Science has produced a tremendous vista of evolutionary facts, but has never gotten straight the question of theory. It is time we freed ourselves of this authoritarian fixation of discourse on evolution, bypassing the current Intelligent Design scam trying to exploit this confusion of Darwinists.
Science has produced a tremendous vista of evolutionary facts, but has never gotten straight the question of theory. It is time we freed ourselves of this authoritarian fixation of discourse on evolution, bypassing the current Intelligent Design scam trying to exploit this confusion of Darwinists.
Real innovation on the subject has gone underground, and is hardly able to reach the public. The solution is to remember that the original context of evolutionary discourse was that of science, that Darwinism spawned a metaphysical pseudo-science of natural selection in its place, and to limit ourselves to what we know, and can observe. That’s a severe limitation, but the results are instructive. The only properly documented record is history itself, which can show us the real clues to the descent of man.
World History and The Eonic Effect, the study of history and evolution, is designed as a set of modular components, published text and web-book, with four books dovetailed in one, one of them being Descent of Man Revisited, which is now online. The data of the eonic effect
shows the way in which a process of macroevolution must impinge on the value domain, generating non-random evolution, instantly falsifying the reductionist assumptions of Darwinists, and yet confirming the basic perspective of evolution. Steering clear of the red herring of design arguments, we can resolve questions of historical directionality, global evolution, evolutionary progress, theory and ideology, and much else. World history hides a secret, and it is the business of virtually all the major cultural institutions and religions to make sure we never learn of it. Based on a very simple model of periodization steering clear of the traps of most theories we can rapidly discover where current thinking is going wrong.