A glimpse of evolution: Margulis was one of the rare academic critics of Neo-Darwinism. Her own theories aren’t the last word either.
A look at the eonic effect can suggest why EVERYONE in the science/academic world is getting evolution wrong. EVERYONE.
The eonic effect is a marginal glimpse whose assumptions are that in the overlap of evolution and history, an evolutionary dynamic will leave some clues.
And these clues suggest that ‘evolution’ is many-faceted, changes its action, is macro in its effect, needs to be seen via teleology, and has a global aspect. The list continues.
Current science is 180 degrees off the mark. Completely confused and wrong, stupidly wrong, and pernicious. A disgrace to science, whose stock deserves to sink given the length of this lie.
And then there were her views that the 9/11 destruction in New York was due not to an act of terrorism but to deliberately set bombs. In the video below she explains this crazy idea, and you can read her essay about it here.
It is Coyne who discredits himself with this statement. Margulis’ thinking here shows courage, given the universal muddle in academia on the question. Coyne et al. harp endlessly about science. So consider the science of the 9/11 controversies. The official account is nonsense.
Internationally renowned evolutionary biologist and author Lynn Margulis, a Distinguished University Professor of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a National Medal of Science recipient, died Nov. 22 at her home in Amherst. She was 73.
Margulis was best known for her theory of symbiogenesis, which challenges central tenets of neo-Darwinism. She argued that inherited variation, significant in evolution, does not come mainly from random mutations. Rather, new tissues, organs, and even new species evolve primarily through the long-lasting intimacy of strangers. The fusion of genomes in symbioses followed by natural selection, she suggests, leads to increasingly complex levels of individuality. Margulis was also acknowledged for her contribution to James E. Lovelock’s Gaia concept. Gaia theory posits that the Earth’s surface interactions among living beings sediment, air, and water have created a vast self-regulating system.
“She leaves us a legacy of academic accomplishment brought about by her original thought and tireless inquiry into multiple fields of science that look at how the world functions and how that magnificent world has developed over time,” said UMass Amherst Chancellor Robert C. Holub. “Her passing is a great loss for the entire campus family.”
“She was an amazing scientist and a wonderful person,” said Steve Goodwin, dean of the College of Natural Sciences at UMass Amherst. “Of course she was a different kind of scientist, one who does not come along very often. Her great gift was making connections, connections that others just couldn’t make. She provided a stimulation to the campus community and the scientific community that was uniquely her own.”
R. Mark Leckie, head of the geosciences department at UMass Amherst, said, “She will be dearly missed by her devoted students and her many friends and colleagues around the world.”
This endless hype is tiresome. Surely this source could consider the issues of Davies’ The Darwin Conspiracy. With Wallace overseas for a further period of years, Darwin, clued in by Wallace’s Ternate Letter, rapidly stole a march on that genius with his rubbishy text on evolution echoing Wallace.
Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species By – - OUPBLOG (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS)
Added: Thursday, 24 November 2011 at 5:57 PM
This Day in World History
November 24, 1859
Darwin Publishes On the Origin of Species
On the day it was published, Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species sold out—eager readers bought every single copy. This alone is not remarkable: the print run was a mere 1,250 copies. But in presenting to the world his theory of evolution by natural selection, Darwin’s tome made history
Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos? New Test Confirms Accuracy of Experiment’s Initial Measurement in Flight Time of Neutrinos
ScienceDaily (Nov. 21, 2011) — Following the OPERA collaboration’s presentation at CERN on Sept. 23, inviting scrutiny of their neutrino time-of-flight measurement from the broader particle physics community, the collaboration has rechecked many aspects of its analysis and taken into account valuable suggestions from a wide range of sources.
Scientists Turn On Fountain of Youth in YeastScienceDaily (Nov. 23, 2011) — Collaborations between Johns Hopkins and National Taiwan University researchers have successfully manipulated the life span of common, single-celled yeast organisms by figuring out how to remove and restore protein functions related to yeast aging.
Published on Friday, November 25, 2011 by the Toronto Star
Non-Violence is Back and Shaking Things Up
by Rick Salutin
This is a time of rejuvenation for non-violence. The Occupy movements were built on what one writer called “the courage of young people to fly into conflict on Gandhi’s wings.” The Arab Spring won its tenuous victories non-violently. A leader of the Tunisian Islamist party said recently, “I wish in the West they would focus on our non-violence when they talk about Islam, how the masses of people did not react to the incredible violence thrown at them.” He meant this in contrast to the bloody civil war that Algerian Islamists fell into after being robbed of their election victory in 1992. Read the rest of this entry »
“Where man starts by burning books he ends up by burning people.”
451 at Zuccotti Park
by PETER LINEBAUGH
The cowardly, nocturnal destruction of more than 5,000 volumes of “the People’s Library” last week, a repository of knowledge gathered by the Occupy Wall Street assembly at Zuccotti Park requires the most vigorous push-back. Mayor Bloomberg of New York ordered the destruction which was certainly coordinated with Wall Street and the White House. Read the rest of this entry »
Frank Miller and the rise of cryptofascist Hollywood
Fans were shocked when Batman writer Frank Miller furiously attacked the Occupy movement. They shouldn’t have been, says Rick Moody – he was just voicing Hollywood’s unspoken values Read the rest of this entry »
The evolution of language has no coherent Darwinian scenario. In any case, the transformation of languages in history is not evolution, because the invariant core that stands beyond such change evolved once, and stopped, long ago.
Darwinism was an interesting idea in the 19th century, when handwaving explanations gave a plausible, if not properly scientific, framework into which we could fit biological facts. However, what we have learned since the days of Darwin throws doubt on natural selection’s ability to create complex biological systems – and we still have little more than handwaving as an argument in its favour.
Pardon my jargonized rendering of the question. You figure it out.
Looking at the post today about Michael Moore I felt inspired to a negative response to the above question, which has to be asked, then put to the mantle piece for a few moments.
I will answer in the negative, but at the same time, I fear that the left (and the OWS is more than the left, with its libertarian contingent) has been outplayed long since by the hidden coup against the American government staged by, who? the covert intelligence agencies, we suspect, and hidden elements in the military. That’s just it: we don’t know, haven’t the foggiest about what is really going on.
In any case, the acid test, from now on, for any leftist group is coming clean on the clear evidence of 9/11 conspiracy. The government in question, so-called, is clearly a fascist operation in disguise, details still unknown, and whether that includes the current Prez himself, who is almost irrelevant in any case.
So beside Moore’s list of objectives one must whisper out loud about a longer list, which includes debriefing the public about the criminals running the game, and then some discussion of the chances of reform in such a system.
It is also a practical issue. I spent $200 on the OWS library. Gone. Wasted. So, will all effort end up being a waste? No, because time is running out on this corrupt system.
and Michael Moore’s demands include so many demands for constitutional amendments that I think it would be more efficient to simply amend the YD dot.gov op with a three-cornered hat amendment of ‘who’s in charge’, i.e. pulling rank on the whole creepy gang of sordid ghosts who claim to run Washington.
If my negative response to the question is wrong, then this should be a classic revolt, not the false Leninist brand. Some say a colonialist revolt is the wrong model these days. Are you kidding? The YD dot.gov is an even worse case of colonialist imperialism than the old Stiff Upper Brit redcoat brand, and the American so-called citizen is a colonial subject all over again–from Washington!
The model of the American Revolution, after all, was enjoined by the founding fathers, perhaps once a generation. We are a bit overdue.
But the answer to the question, in the negative, is, well… you tell me, my fellow (colonial subjects) Americans.
In any case, the hidden fascist coup, disguised from view, is a reminder that the first subversives were the government mafia. It is therefore a legal duty to redress the confusion. No?
Economists have more to learn from the natural sciences if they are to claim a realistic model of human behaviour
We cited Mirowski’s book, More Heat Than Light, this week, and it speaks to the confusion in this article. What do economists really have to learn from physics? It is a different subject. From Darwinism? Sick joke. Economists have already totally mechanized their subject with differential equations, models of deterministic action, etc, etc, up to the comic-relief use of calculus in marginal economics. What more can they do to ape physics? At the end we have a host of mathematical con-men playing vampire with hedge fund gimmicks, truly demonic inventions.
Economics is a field of free agents whose behavior in the large might show structure that can be analyzed, but the endless physicalism of economists has created a pseudo-science. I think that attempts to produce economic models has failed, and in the end you have to stare at the aggregate called an ecconomy, and think about it in humanistic terms. Meanwhile the vendetta against altruism using Darwinism is close to a crime against humanity.
Some science.
An interesting take by Michael Moore with a list of objectives, etc…
I think the question lingers: is a set of demands possible in the current crypto-fascist regime. I don’t like to throw that word, fascism, around, but is it not appropriate for this government?
What about the demands for the closing of Guantanamo? That is going to get forgotten in the attempt to advance and agenda.
This movement has been full of surprises so it is good to be optimistic.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mike-friends-blog/where-does-occupy-wall-street-go-here
*November 22nd, 2011* Where Does Occupy Wall Street Go From Here?
By Michael Moore
This past weekend I participated in a four-hour meeting of Occupy Wall
Street activists whose job it is to come up with the vision and goals of
the movement. It was attended by 40+ people and the discussion was both
inspiring and invigorating. Here is what we ended up proposing as the
movement’s “vision statement” to the General Assembly of Occupy Wall Street:
*We Envision: [1] a truly free, democratic, and just society; [2] where we,
the people, come together and solve our problems by consensus; [3] where
people are encouraged to take personal and collective responsibility and
participate in decision making; [4] where we learn to live in harmony and
embrace principles of toleration and respect for diversity and the
differing views of others; [5] where we secure the civil and human rights
of all from violation by tyrannical forces and unjust governments; [6]
where political and economic institutions work to benefit all, not just the
privileged few; [7] where we provide full and free education to everyone,
not merely to get jobs but to grow and flourish as human beings; [8] where
we value human needs over monetary gain, to ensure decent standards of
living without which effective democracy is impossible; [9] where we work
together to protect the global environment to ensure that future
generations will have safe and clean air, water and food supplies, and will
be able to enjoy the beauty and bounty of nature that past generations have
enjoyed.*
The next step will be to develop a specific list of goals and demands. As
one of the millions of people who are participating in the Occupy Wall
Street movement, I would like to respectfully offer my suggestions of what
we can all get behind *now* to wrestle the control of our country out of
the hands of the 1% and place it squarely with the 99% majority.
Here is what I will propose to the General Assembly of Occupy Wall Street:
*10 Things We Want*
A Proposal for Occupy Wall Street
Submitted by Michael Moore
1. Eradicate the Bush tax cuts for the rich and institute new taxes on the
wealthiest Americans and on corporations, including a tax on all trading on
Wall Street (where they currently pay 0%).
2. Assess a penalty tax on any corporation that moves American jobs to
other countries when that company is already making profits in America. Our
jobs are the most important national treasure and they cannot be removed
from the country simply because someone wants to make more money.
3. Require that *all* Americans pay the same Social Security tax on
*all*of their earnings (normally, the middle class pays about 6% of
their income
to Social Security; someone making $1 million a year pays about 0.6% (or
90% less than the average person). This law would simply make the rich pay
what everyone else pays.
4. Reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act, placing serious regulations on how
business is conducted by Wall Street and the banks.
5. Investigate the Crash of 2008, and bring to justice those who committed
any crimes.
6. Reorder our nation’s spending priorities (including the ending of all
foreign wars and their cost of over $2 billion a week). This will re-open
libraries, reinstate band and art and civics classes in our schools, fix
our roads and bridges and infrastructure, wire the entire country for 21st
century internet, and support scientific research that improves our lives.
7. Join the rest of the free world and create a single-payer, free and
universal health care system that covers *all* Americans *all* of the time.
8. Immediately reduce carbon emissions that are destroying the planet and
discover ways to live without the oil that will be depleted and gone by the
end of this century.
9. Require corporations with more than 10,000 employees to restructure
their board of directors so that 50% of its members are elected by the
company’s workers. We can never have a real democracy as long as most
people have no say in what happens at the place they spend most of their
time: their job. (For any U.S. businesspeople freaking out at this idea
because you think workers can’t run a successful company: Germany has a law
like this and it has helped to make Germany the world’s leading
manufacturing exporter.)
10. We, the people, must pass three constitutional amendments that will go
a long way toward fixing the core problems we now have. These include:
a) A constitutional amendment that fixes our broken electoral system by 1)
completely removing campaign contributions from the political process; 2)
requiring all elections to be publicly financed; 3) moving election day to
the weekend to increase voter turnout; 4) making all Americans registered
voters at the moment of their birth; 5) banning computerized voting and
requiring that all elections take place on paper ballots.
b) A constitutional amendment declaring that corporations are not people
and do not have the constitutional rights of citizens. This amendment
should also state that the interests of the general public and society must
always come before the interests of corporations.
c) A constitutional amendment that will act as a “second bill of rights” as
proposed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt: that every American has a
human right to employment, to health care, to a free and full education, to
breathe clean air, drink clean water and eat safe food, and to be cared for
with dignity and respect in their old age.
Let me know what you think. Occupy Wall Street enjoys the support of
millions. It is a movement that cannot be stopped. Become part of it by
sharing your thoughts with me or online (at
OccupyWallSt.org).
Get involved in (or start! ) your own local Occupy
movement. Make some noise. You don’t have to pitch a tent in lower
Manhattan to be an Occupier. You are one just by saying you are. This
movement has no singular leader or spokesperson; every participant is a
leader in their neighborhood, their school, their place of work. Each of
you is a spokesperson to those whom you encounter. There are no dues to
pay, no permission to seek in order to create an action.
We are but ten weeks old, yet we have already changed the national
conversation. This is our moment, the one we’ve been hoping for, waiting
for. If it’s going to happen it has to happen now. Don’t sit this one out.
This is the real deal. This is it.
From Livesstream: currently a press conference on the destruction of the OWS library.
That egregious and ‘violent’ act on the part of New York City deserves thorough condemnation. I should note that I sent over $200 worth of books to the library, and don’t take it lying down to have that amount of ‘green energy’ destroyed by the city.
Five thousand books at c. 15-30 dollars per should do it. Chump change for Billionaire Bloomberg: 150K plus, write out a check, hizoner.