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Scientific and religious attempts to control the evolution ‘idea’ will tear themselves to pieces. At that point the real understanding of evolution might begin. But not with a ‘knowledge’ of evolution. We can construct an empirical map, a get a ‘glimpse’ of evolution at the boundary of history, in a context of the Kantian noumenal/phenomenal framework.
The debate goes on ad infinitum for a good Kantian reason: some antinomy is breached in the ‘dialectic’ (debate).
It is world history itself that shows us the clue to evolution. Darwinists, by distracting attention to times unseen, have confused us completely. We are ready to examine the phenomenon of the eonic effect, the evidence of a non-random pattern in world history. The discovery of that pattern uncovers something more, but the basic demonstration of non-randomness in world history is conclusive, final, and almost devastating. That’s enough. And that’s that.
Unfortunately obtaining The Darwin Conspiracy: Origins Of A Scientific Crime is difficult, but you can get the book from Amazon.co.uk.
It is a pity since just at this point a larger public needs to become aware of this material, since the scientific community is simply going to ignore it, or lie if confronted by it.
So, here is the opening section of the book: the narrative is setting the stage for a brilliant history of the intersection of Darwin and Wallace. Darwin is easy to defend, if you can finesse the earlier history of Darwin’s thinking. The notion that his theory was already fully formed and put in writing in his 1844 paper is false, and yet this claim is used to establish his priority over Wallace. This opening passage suggests a different view indeed of Darwin’s evolutionary views, in 1856, just before he received his first letter from Wallace, a letter that most suspiciously no longer exists.
IN THE late summer of 1856, Charles Darwin was under tremendous pressure to solve what was commonly termed ‘the species question’: namely, how and in what circumstances did new species come into exis¬tence. After nearly eighteen years of thought, he found himself stranded. He had laboured over a theory he had hoped would explain how one species might change into another, but he was tiring in the face of cogent and persuasive evidence from friends and colleagues, who insisted that a core element of his theory was wrong. To his closest confidants, he some¬times admitted that he was completely baffled by the appearance of varieties and the origination of new species in the absence of a change in environmental conditions.l Read the rest of this entry »
The history of vitalism is very tricky, as is the critique of it in the coming of scientism. The problem is that we have to name a ‘biological force’ to fill the slot created by the invocation of ‘vitalism’ as an abstraction. That is hard to do. In any case standard science’s devotees are so traumatized or up in arms at the mere used of the word that it becomes counterproductive. However, the point is that we sense the existence of some larger factor in evolution, something to ‘drive’ macroevolution, and the existence of that larger framework is hard to gainsay.
As to the end of history, it is not my job to explain it, and it can be difficult to make sense of Hegel here, especially once you read some of the history of the idea, which is really that of Kojeve and then of Fukuyama. So it is not the same as my ‘end of the eonic sequence’. Anyway, the echoes of Hegel in the eonic model are fascinating, but only that, fascinating.
Stephen P. Smith said,
February 28, 2009 at 3:21 pm
On vitalism: It is enough to note that something fundamental, or acausal, relates to life and evolution and provides the grounding of a space-time fabric that cannot otherwise be caricatured. One does not have to go as far as the felt fundamentality (as I have done), to understand this.
Contrary to common belief, the discoveries of biochemistry do not rule out my vitality hypothesis because such a pretense commits the fallacy of excluded middle. Its that simple!
Regarding the connection of the “cunning of reason” with the”end of history”: We might note that something fundamental remains beyond our egocentric awareness while this knowledge remains available to the cunning of reason (for those capable of precognition). The end of history points to the passing of conflict, however, when the egocentric awareness also discovers what is found fundamental.
James said,
February 28, 2009 at 1:25 pm
“Just at the point that the critique of Darwinism was gaining steam, in the period of Michael Denton that effort was suddenly hijacking by the imposition of design arguments on the whole question of the flaws of Darwin’s theory.”
I wonder what happened here. It certainly seemed like the Denton/Wesson/Lovtrup stream would take charge of the critical genre, but somehow the whole effort got derailed by this form of neo-Creationism. The ID movement is the very reason why the scientific establishment clings so tenaciously to Darwinian theory. Given the political stance and cultural orientation of the ID movement, I can hardly blame scientists for their efforts to wipe out this movement.
Good points, but in the end the science community has played its hand so abysmally that it got, if not what it deserved, then something on a par with its own actions.
Actually there is no hope on the ID question, as Kant knew well, thinking to limit the damage with a critique of its metaphysical presumption.
Indeed, as Steve Fuller (the science theorist/critic who testifed at Dover) points out the ID argument is as old as science. All the seventeenth century greats who created science accepted ID (not the current version!) as a matter of course. One of the great instigators of the modern stream of ID thinking was a member of the Royal Society.
So, with that legacy what does science do? With Darwin it proposes a fake theory based on natural selection to claim it has refuted the design argument!
That’s a recipe for going in reverse gear in the end, as the fundamentalist movement demurs, and demurs, and then, remarkably, produces an advanced mathematician with a new twist on the design argument.
Small wonder the debate won’t go away.
As to Dembski’s math arguments, they don’t fool/satisfy me, but they are not the horrid things scientists make out of them: merely restatments of Hoyle who challenged the probability of natural selection theories.
It is a horrible and sad situation: in the name of science, most students raised on Darwin have a trained mental defect on the issue of probability theory.
The record will show that a fundamentalist (is Dembski a fundamentalist?) corrected/critiqued that botch of sci education.
I don’t wish to pursue this too far. You are right that the current ID movement has done something counterproductive in the extreme. But in a kind of legalistic thinking, the history of science itself shows that science has failed to refute design arguments, and failed to produce a viable theory. Again Kant stumbled in advance on the reason: natural teleology (as opposed to design) must be real: our Newtonian thinking is not completely adequate to the task of depicting nature.
I hold no brief for the ID movement, but the whole Darwin game is a total botch. Now we find out Darwin was a fraud and that this was Wallace’s theory, Wallace who moved on fairly quickly (almost into an ID position).
We needed the original Wesson/Denton/Lovtrup style of critique. Perhaps we can still revive it. Like sowing one’s oats the design spree was perhaps a logical if not historical ‘inevitability’. It spooks people in the science community. But after a while that wears off. Throw all the design arguments my way that you please, they won’t convince. So what are scientists so afraid of? Their only chance is to do good science. Rigging science to make it look like ID fails is a recipe for producing the reverse.
The issue is a Kantian one: ID could be right, but we can’t prove it.
I should also point out that Schopenhauer was accused of promoting ‘design’ by Julian Young in his book on that thinker! Note that an atheist who is a transcendental idealist swings in that direction. But the result is not design in the current wrong usages. Nonetheless Schopenhauer’s idea of the Will in nature shows that even secularists have options in, if not the design argument, then in forms of explanation that are far from reductionism.
J. G. Bennett who I have cited here (reluctantly and critically) was a super design theorist of the gnostic brand, the demiurge, or plural demiurges, as a form of existence beyond the human, and involved in the emergist drama of nature. Bennett insisted that the complexities of consciousness/self-consciousness couldn’t arise by Darwinian evolution, and that human consciousness as a cosmic energy was injected into man, that is, didn’t evolve at all.
You can say nonsense to New Age stuff all you want, but the reality remains that really explaining evolutionary facts, like human consciousness, requires more than rubbing the rabbit’s foot of Darwin’s theory to explain such complexities.
I have always tried to distance myself from Bennett, but he was ten times smarter than most current scientists (which didn’t stop him from being mush headed about metaphysical paper money) and came down with a design argument that would produce nightmares in most devotees of scientism.
It took me about ten years to see through his system confusions, but in the end he may prove correct in some fashion. I like to cite him because he did something remarkable: adopted the materialistic system of ancient Indian Samkhya, as a foil for the age of science.
The reason his system subsumes design arguments without using them can be seen in his way of expressing a basic psychology/reality question, that of being, function, will (as discussed here and at The Gurdjieff Con): the factor of ‘will’ (as with Schopenhauer) is built into the universe and emerges in a highly complex set of levels, or in Samkhya ‘laws’ or ‘gunas’.
The point is these entities would transcend the duality of dead/alive, designer/no designer: they should levels or degrees of mechanization.
If that is the case, I am not surely not saying it is, then there are all sorts of possibilities, among them a design argument for an atheist. So, while I certainly agree that the current ID movement is misguided, the fact is that the threat that all of human culture might slide into the kind of scientism we see now produces these countermovements as a defense.
Evolutionary theory is at odds with itself: It cannot accept that man is a special being, raised above all others in evolutionary history, and it cannot deny that only man is capable of science, which allows him to transcend his animal selfishness. In closing, I note that I have made no reference to religion but only brought out the inner contradiction of Darwinism.
Now Darwinists want to blame the public. I find it remarkable that people aren’t more confused than they are, since there is no real standard for what constitutes an evolutionary theory.
Shermer is an instinctive propagandist, it seems, and his task in life is to keep people confused. To say that two misunderstandings haunt Darwinism is true but misleading. Dozens of things are confusing about this theory.
To exculpate Darwinism by blaming Social Darwinism on the public is outrageous. And it is more than the suggestion of the term ‘natural selection’. The Social Darwinism is built into the theory itself. The claim that the theory, as it stands, drives evolution is what keeps the Social Darwinist angle alive.
If Darwinists can’t get their act together no use blaming the public.
The theory of Darwin, really Wallace’s theory, doesn’t work, so it is no wonder the public flounders.
Meanwhile, bringing in Wallace is significant. This is Wallace’s theory, and he later repented of it.
Time for Shermer to address the refutation of his views on Wallace, priority, and Darwin, in Roy Davies’ The Darwin Conspiracy.
These evolutionary debates are really pseudo-debates: there are two fixed sides, whose arguments are fixed cliches by now, and no other persons are admitted.
Why won’t someone debate me? I am not a celebrity, among other reasons. They would be afraid to, but more than that the parties to the debate is controlled, a subtle form of censorship.
What is notable is that the two fixed sides are, pretty much, both wrong.
Babies Learn Music While Sleeping
ScienceDaily (Feb. 27, 2009) — Early screening and treatment for infants with hearing problems, and the ability to computer-generate musical scores, are two very different possible outcomes of some “off-the-wall” research.
Desert Ants Smell Their Way Home
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HIV Is Evolving To Evade Human Immune Responses
ScienceDaily (Feb. 28, 2009) — HIV is evolving rapidly to escape the human immune system, an international study led by Oxford University has shown. The findings, published in Nature, demonstrate the challenge involved in developing a vaccine for HIV that keeps pace with the changing nature of the virus.
Last week in Stamford, Conn., a chimpanzee named Travis was shot and killed after he mauled a friend of his owner. The chimpanzee lived with a widow, eating lobster and ice cream at the table, wearing human clothes and entertaining himself with a computer and television.
But as the tragedy made clear, a chimpanzee can never be totally domesticated.
The human brain is more highly developed than that of any other living creature. So why can’t we learn that wild animals simply do not make good “pets”?
I believe it has a great deal to do with the fact that chimpanzees are so frequently used in entertainment and advertising. Only a month ago, Americans watching the Super Bowl may have laughed at an ad in which chimpanzees dressed as mechanics worked on a car. They seemed cute, funny and even lovable. Is it any wonder viewers might think that chimpanzees would make great pets?
Nothing could be further from the truth. Only infant chimpanzees are used in entertainment and advertising, because as they approach maturity, at about 6 to 8 years of age, they become strong and unmanageable. Chimpanzees evolved in the tropical forests of Africa, and that’s where they’re suited to live, roaming in groups. A house in Connecticut was a completely alien environment for a chimp.
Driving from Naples, Florida, the nation’s second-wealthiest metropolitan area, to Immokalee takes less than an hour on a straight road. Read the rest of this entry »
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How the poor were airbrushed from history
by George Monbiot
The Guardian (February 24 2009)
Is there any other democracy so adept at editing its history? Even
Spain, for years notoriously reluctant to get to grips with the legacy
of Franco, has begun to acknowledge the past, as the success of
Guillermo del Torro’s masterpiece Pan’s Labyrinth shows. The French are
aware of every sordid detail of the excesses of both monarchs and
revolutionaries. The Germans are pricked by their past every day. In the
United States everyone knows about slavery, the civil war and
segregation. But in Britain our collective memory has been wiped clean.
Massive Climate Change Action in DC Scores Early Victory
By Jeff Biggers, AlterNet
Posted on February 27, 2009
In addressing our nation this week, President Barack Obama called on us to “confront boldly the challenges we face, and take responsibility for our future once more.”
Thousands of American citizens are taking the President at his word. Preparing to descend on Washington, DC., on Monday, March 2nd, to boldly confront our nation’s dirty coal policy at a planned protest at the Capitol Power Plant, the broad alliance of citizens groups (capitolclimateaction.org) scored an extraordinary advanced victory yesterday: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid have just released a letter calling on the Acting Architect of the Capitol to end the use of coal at the Capitol Power Plant.
Forests Pay the Price for America’s Love Affair with Really Soft Toilet Paper
By Tara Lohan, AlterNet. Posted February 27, 2009.
Why the best use of 300-year-old trees might not be in the bathroom.
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Forbes.com (February 02 2009)
As steadily as ivy creeps up the walls of its well-groomed campuses, the
education industrial complex has cultivated the image of college as a
sure-fire path to a life of social and economic privilege.
Joel Kellum says he’s living proof that the claim is a lie.
I receive my own posts from Sciftp. Amusing. See below the flap.
Not so funny.
Science is in real trouble on the Darwin question. Davies’ The Darwin Conspiracy corrects the blunders made by John Brooks in his Just Before The Origin, on the dates of the various key letters that show the suspicious activity of Darwin.
In the name of objectivity I will cite Michael Shermer’s In The Shadow Of Darwin, pp. 128, where the goal line defense of Darwin was performed with some seemingly decisive rebuttal of Brooks’ version, now devastatingly corrected by Davies.
A challenge for Mr. Shermer: can he acknowledge the truth of the matter, or at least spare us the bullshit laid on in his book on Wallace. Science can’t just pass up this crisis with bicentennial Darwin Day lies.
How is it that the entire scientific community can’t handle this simple question of researched expose, now given an ingenious and very convincing finished form by Davies. This suspicious issue, whose research has gone on for over forty years, hasn’t impacted anyone with the wit to see that science is at risk in this horrible mess.
Scientists are running out of time on this question.
You can only propagandize up to a point. Then the truth comes out.
Critics now have a new and devastating argument against Darwin: why should we believe anything we read in his writings. He is not trustworthy or honest.
(Answer: it was Wallace’s theory, all the way, so it is a question of Wallace’s later doubts and emendations.)
http://www.uncommondescent.com/faq/
I get a bit impatient with these endless defenses of ID against what, to be sure, are often vituperative rather than intelligent critiques.
I think there is something sad about ID (but by comparison Darwinism is turning into a tragedy). Just at the point that the critique of Darwinism was gaining steam, in the period of Michael Denton that effort was suddenly hijacking by the imposition of design arguments on the whole question of the flaws of Darwin’s theory. We can see the slide in Behe’s The Black Box. That book is on the borderline, slipping into the ID confusion. The basic argument without the intimations of ID to come (as an organized lobby) is insightful, and the book, which should have been in the Denton, genre got corrupted by the devious thinking of a movement.
Defenders of ID have never once cited the classic problems with the design argument and instead done in reverse what the Darwinist have done, claim science where science has been betrayed.
These tactics can really corrupt thought, and leave people unable to evaluate intelligibly the issues of evolution.
To be fair the Darwin paradigm has done the same thing.
You need to give it a rest, and stop destroying the work of those who are critics of Darwin outstanding. Secular, and scientific.
A postdarwinian paradigm is never going to happen with design thinking. It is a conservative phantom and vampire on the attention and efforts of those who want change.
It is a bitter fact, but Darwin critics are now ostracized twice, twice mark you, first by Darwinists, and now by the Design cult, which won’t even exchange emails with the secular critics.
That’s sad.
And a pox on both houses
For a long time, Intelligent Design (ID) proponents, enlightened by current scientific knowledge and faithful to its methods, have been making specific and objective arguments about the origin of biological information. Nevertheless, many critics mistakenly insist that ID, in spite of its well-defined purpose, its supporting evidence, and its mathematically precise paradigms, is not really a valid scientific theory. All too often, they make this charge on the basis of the scientists’ perceived motives.
We have noticed that some of these false objections and attributions, largely products of an aggressive Darwinist agenda, have found their way into institutions of higher learning, the press, the United States court system, and even the European Union policy directives. Routinely, they find expression in carefully-crafted talking points, complete with derogatory labels and personal caricatures, all of which appear to have been part of a disinformation campaign calculated to mislead the public.
Many who interact with us on this blog recycle this misinformation. Predictably, they tend to raise notoriously weak objections that have been answered thousands of times. What follows is a list of those objections and our best attempt to answer them in abbreviated form. If you have been sent here, you are now being asked to familiarize yourself with basic ID knowledge so that you can acquire the minimal amount of information necessary to conduct meaningful dialogue.
Stephen P. Smith said,
February 27, 2009 at 12:02 am
“… At the end we will suspect that we are at the end of the eonic sequence since observing the eonic effect probably preempts its future action.”
Perhaps this is the primal or panpsychist consciousness, where the apparent tension (say Schopenhauer’s concept of will) finds its resolution! The tension returns to source, and the Eonic effect finds itself giving support to an innate vitalism where the spirit seeks freedom!
Sounds like the “end of history!”
I am wary of vitalism, and the eonic effect is taken as a pure ‘system’: whatever is behind it. It would be nice to take a deeper step, but it is hard, with the Kantian apparatus of the noumenal…
The question of the end of history is interesting here, shrewd observation, you are right, and the echo is remarkable. The two ideas are not the same, but it makes one wonder what was going on in Hegel’s mind.
The ‘end of the eonic sequence’ may, however, not occur. Please note that at the end of the Axial Age a similar situation arose, and a very weird version of ‘end times’ futurism came into being sensing the coming of a future age, in the great confusion over Zarathustra, cyclical theories, end time theories, etc…
The point is that an awareness of a future of a cyclical system did not generate the breakup of the system, if only because so few people really knew the issues.
Again note the term of Hegel ‘cunning of reason’ (please don’t use this term on the eonic effect, despite its echo also): things happened to people without their awareness. But as self-consciousness emerges, the end of history in Hegel’s sense also arises.
More generally it is possible that something like what happened to Rome could theoretically happen again: the total collapse of civilization, a new milleunnium long slump, etc,…
But in practice I find that questionable. But as we compare science and scientism, we sense all sorts of ways the future could ‘decline’ without looking like it was declining: a cultural state of consciousness mechanization could arise, even at a high state of technology.
Like the Darwin debate.
In any case, it is a venture of peril, since the ability to generate the kind of high quality civilizational structures that we see in the eonic sequence is, by the argument, finished, and we are on our own.
Frightening.
There is a long section in the text of World History And The Eonic Effect on Hegel’s ‘end of history’. Last And First Men
Note: the relevance of Hegel is notable, but the terminologies are different, in the eonic model the end of the eonic sequence is the beginning of history
To see this, consider the example I always give: the third wheel on a child’s bike. While the third wheel is on the bike, the child is learning. At the end of the learning sequence, the child’s solo bike riding begins, and the child is then free to ride the bike alone, at the beginning of her, shall we say, history of bike riding.
Darwin’s writings, when actually read, express the prevalent racism of the nineteenth century, and endorse an extreme laissez faire political ideology that legitimates the neglect of the suffering poor by the ruling elite.
Those who argue at school board meetings that Darwin should be taught in public schools seldom have taken the time to read what he had to say. If they even knew the full title of his book, which is On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life, they might have gained some inkling of the racism propagated by this controversial theorist.
Then, if they had gone on to read his second book, The Descent of Man, it is likely that they would be shocked to learn that among Darwin’s scientifically based proposals was the elimination of “the negro and Australian peoples,” which he considered to be savage races whose continued survival was hindering the progress of civilisation.
My Reply to Jerry Coyne: Why Darwinism is False
In his essay for Forbes.com, Jerry Coyne takes me to task for my dissent from Darwinism. According to Coyne, “The tenets of evolutionary theory are simple: Life evolved, largely under the influence of natural selection; this evolution took a rather long time; and species alive and dead can be organized on the basis of shared similarities into a tree whose branching pattern implies that every pair of living species has a common ancestor. Among genuine scientists, there is not the slightest doubt about the truth of these ideas.”
February 25, 2009 on CNN’s Lou Dobbs with Christopher Hitchens
The United Nations Anti-Blasphemy Resolution aims to curtail speech that offends religion, specifically Islam. Critics, religious groups and free speech advocates say the resolution is spreading Sharia law to the Western world. Christopher Hitchens joined Lou.
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Birds’ Movements Reveal Climate Change In Action
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