05.06.09
“Reading WHEE”, new category, and reading guide
I am addiing a new category: Reading WHEE, for ‘Reading World History And The Eonic Effect’.
I am going to go straight through the text section by section, with a (very) short quote and commentary, and an extra bonus: onblog versions of the text that are not online at history-and-evolution.com. I am moving swiftly toward the (highly revised) fourth edition, plus a new book, and this material will soon vanish into the woodwork, so ….best to get going, the more so since this is the real ‘enchilada’. No other book on evolution can compete with this one, which is remarkable, since ‘officially’ it doesn’t exist, and most scholars would be fired from their job if they dared mention it. Further, noone so far has produced a refutation of this line of argument (apart from the usual insults from Darwinists who have never read the text), or, for that matter, even a counterargument. Not surprising, the argument is very robust (and finally empirical). Some people run away screaming, ‘Oh my god, more Kant’. But, in fact, the Kantian material is entirely elementary. All you need is one paragraph from an essay on Kant, plus a one-paragraph version of his third antinomy which you can get from any short intro to his work.
A Glimpse of Evolution
…it is important to consider the ambiguity at the heart of evolutionary theory itself, where this pursues the timeless ‘laws of nature’ onto nature’s stage of life where time is of the essence, and the timely arrival of an abundance of creatures finds no reckoning in the orbits of mass and force. As if by a new law, the era of life finds refuge in a global moment, hideaway to beasts of a small planet, making engines of machines to consume mass and force. At last we find man whose claim is to cut history from evolution, graduate from all laws into a domain of freedom, as a law unto himself, in the court of small kingdoms and the self-realization of his individuality. In this ambiguity of chance and necessity we might search for the deeper meaning behind our use of the term ‘evolution’.
The essential ingredient to any theory of the evolution of man is a study of the idea of freedom and how it enters into such a theory. Darwinism is like a deaf man on this issue, and the study of the eonic effect can demonstrate how this situation can be remedied.
James said,
May 6, 2009 at 6:52 pm
“No other book on evolution can compete with this one, which is remarkable, since ‘officially’ it doesn’t exist, and most scholars would be fired from their job if they dared mention it.”
I don’t think this blog “officially” exists either. Both sides seem to be too scared to even mention it.
Darwiniana » Reading WHEE: archaeology of Old Testament said,
May 9, 2009 at 4:19 pm
[...] our reading guide for WHEE,Reading-whee, we come to the tricky question of the history behind the Old Testament, and the eonic effect: [...]