05.12.09
Posted in Reading WHEE at 1:26 pm by nemo
Continuing series: Reading WHEE: History and Evolution
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.
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05.10.09
Posted in Reading WHEE at 5:22 pm by nemo
Continuing the series, Reading WHEE:
The Legacy Of Darwinism
The metaphysics of evolution
The philosophy of Kant offers a useful benchmark for the examination of evolutionary theories as these impinge on the intractable issues of metaphysics. Questions, he warns, of god, soul or self, and free will are destined to exhibit antinomies that will haunt any universal generalization. We have the Darwin debate in a nutshell, and can see at once that Darwinian natural selection, used as the universal talisman of metaphysical reduction, presumes judgment on unobserved totalities, and is troubled on each of these questions. Questions of divinity founder in the design debate, of soul in the basic definition of self and organism, and free will in the attempts to reduce moral action to the mechanization of adaptationism. Current biology lacks so much as a basic definition of the organism.
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05.09.09
Posted in Reading WHEE at 4:18 pm by nemo
Continuing our reading guide for WHEE,Reading-whee,
we come to the tricky question of the history behind the Old Testament, and the eonic effect: first things first, we need to study the archaeological background to the histories, so-called, of Israel/Judah. The book The Bible Unearthed is a good resource for that.
The Bible unearthed A renewed sense of the extraordinary significance of the Old Testament leaves us with a question, What is the Bible recording? Theistic historicism or an Axial transformation? The natural division into three sections, the Torah, the Prophets, and the post-exilic writings of the period Ezra and Nehemiah, gives the clue: the prophetic period straddles the Axial interval and this, as we will see, is period of transition to a new era, leading to its conclusion at a point of ‘divide’, ca. –600, in its enigmatic synchrony with Greek, Indian, Chinese, and other parallels. We can decipher this transition by comparison with its isomorphic instances, as in the emergence of Classical Greece from the Greek Archaic. The Bible comes into existence and begins to crystallize in the generation of the Great Reformation of Josiah at the conclusion of its Axial transition.
Zarathustra And The Old Testament Enigma
Here are the first two:
1. http://darwiniana.com/2009/05/06/reading-whee-new-category-and-reading-guide/
2. http://darwiniana.com/2009/05/07/the-connection-of-history-and-evolution-2/
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05.07.09
Posted in Reading WHEE at 7:24 pm by nemo
Continuing series, from yesterday: “Reading WHEE”, new category, and reading guide, here is the first introduction to the idea connecting evolution to history:
In Search Of History
Historical research has greatly expanded our knowledge of world history, and the result is an unexpected discovery: that of a process of universal history in the action of a mysterious dynamic generating a non-random pattern. We call this the eonic effect. Further, the scale of this process is such that we can only call it ‘evolution’. Thus, for the first time we can detect the unmistakable evidence of non-random evolution, and this in world history itself. This leaves us with the question, What is evolution? And this forces another, long overdue, What is the relationship between history and evolution? This could be recast as the paradoxical question, When did evolution stop and history begin?
A moment’s reflection will tell us that no instantaneous passage between the two is plausible and that our terms have been left ragged. We must, by this logic, be able to detect a Transition between evolution and history. Can we find evidence to match this deduction? Indeed, we can, our non-random pattern, the eonic effect. In fact we can say more: if we apply that same logic to our Transition we should expect it to take the form of a series of transitions in an alternation between evolution and history, as if overlayed, the one emerging from the other. The eonic effect shows just this property of transitions in a series. Have we reached the end of the Great Transition? If not, then our evolution still constitutes our present and future. We should ask who man is, with such wisdom as would constitute achievement of the title, homo sapiens.
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05.06.09
Posted in Reading WHEE at 1:18 pm by nemo
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.
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