02.18.09
The eonic effect and developmental biology
Today’s link on Scott Gilbert is worth reading: Scott Gilbert and developmental biology, follow the link to Scoop-NZ, and that to the information on the imminent Rome conference.
Finding problems with the regime of the modern synthesis should be the most natural thing, as this article implicitly shows.
Instead we have the fanaticism of the Darwin fundamentalists, and we can be sure they won’t even discuss the issues now being raised as to the nature of biological theory.
That said, the projected paradigm change, to me, doesn’t go far enough.
The whole basis of theoretical biology is insufficient for explaining the evolution of man. And that evolution is tough going, because our consciousness as scientists in the present is too immersed to achieve objectivity with respect to the ‘higher peaks of history and human consciousness’ that already precede us in time.
Darwinists can’t even handle Bible Belt religion! What are they going to do with the emergentism of Buddhism/Jainism in the Axial Age.
In light of the eonic effect, we can see that there is a developmental aspect in the emergence (called ‘eonic evolution’) of civilization, and most probably a similar process in the earlier evolution of man.
This is a purely abstract ‘systems’ evolution beyond genetics.
http://history-and-evolution.com/whee/chap5_1.htm