History, Evolution, and the Darwin Debate
Aryans, Hinduism, And a Buddhist Revolution
There is a short take on the histroy of Indian religion in WHEE/4th, with some bibilographical references to Danielou who can be helpful, when you are ready. Til then the whole history is confusing.
Chapter 6 of the Fourth Edition is now online: Transition and Modernity
Chapter 5 of World History And The Eonic Effect now online: Symphony of Emergence: World History and the Axial Age!
An entire epoch of higher civilization is now reaching its end, and the world of early Sumer is a forgotten legend buried in the oddities of Akkadian cuneiform, while the civilization of Egypt is in decline. Although we don’t see the total collapse into medievalism that will occur in the next Occidental phase of our history our system comes close to this at many points, as civilization is frozen in the repetition of its basic forms. Most of all the progression of empires has risen to dominate civilization. This creates a crisis of development. Something spectacular is about to occur.
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We have created the question, then, in relation to our eonic sequence, what next? The stream and the sequence interplay quite obviously stages the competition of two different futures in each case. More specifically, what are the next points of transformation in this ‘eonic’ series? That is, when do we again see a period of phasing onset, of parallel, interactive, zones of accelerated cultural evolution? Now, all at once, the Axial phase makes complete sense.
Big Histories, Universal Histories
The idea of Big History, histories told since the Big Bang, and Universal Histories, which can be taken as histories that assume the action of human freedom, need to meet and become a new and higher form.
Reposted from yesterday, thanks for large response!
New selections online for World History And The Eonic Effect, Fourth Edition!
Chapter 3 is now up and online: Chapter #3: Descent of Man Revisited
Follow the links to the sections of the whole chapter
Chapter 4 coming next week.
New selections online for World History And The Eonic Effect, Fourth Edition!
Chapter 3 is now up and online: Chapter #3: Descent of Man Revisited
Follow the links to the sections of the whole chapter
This edition is going offline tomorrow, to make way for the fourth edition of WHEE (to keep googlebot from getting confused). Some of the material in the theoretical sections won’t return, so you can download what you want.
Get started with the online edition WHEE/4th.
The point here is that history and evolution overlap, so speak. Further, human evolution is not yet complete, and is proceeding via civilization to the real completion of homo sapiens.
The Janus-faced connection of history and evolution allows us to detect evolution in historical terms, and thus understand where were are going wrong with Darwinian mythology
A passage from an email to a new reader of WHEE. For the online text, starting up, go to history-and-evolution.com
The theory is more in evidence in the third edition, while the fourth uses only what I call an ‘evolution formalism’ which is just to one side next to a world history, starting in Chapter Four.
The eonic model is deep and elegant and shows a direct correlation to a Kantian idea, but I have never met anyone who understood it!
So I replaced it with a simplified ‘evolution formalism’, which is simply a variant of the punctuated equilibrium macro/micro distinction, which was invented but not understood by S.J. Gould. We can use this to optionally connect the old model to the evolution formalism. But this is not ‘theory’, but a device to describe the remarkable set of punctuations and the semi-equilibrium bewteen them, in world history.
The eonic effect is (descriptively) a remarkable case of ‘punctuated equilibrium’, inthe dictionary sense of the words. The terms should have been used for this from the start.To get the idea of the old model: ‘Evolution in quotation marks’ appears as the intermittent macro sequence, while the historical component appears Janus-faced as ‘History’ in the micro stream. It is a unique and beguiling variant of a type of dynamical alternation model, which can be expressed as an ‘evolution of freedom’.
To see the strange reality of this relationship of ‘system’ and ‘agents’ I often give the example of a ship and the passengers, and a distinction the Action of a System (the boat, the macro) and the ‘Actions of the Individuals’ (inside the boat, the micro). This relation of a ‘system action’ and the ‘free activity’ of people related to that system is actually an idea we have in our repetory, but the minute you explain it to the centipede he gets confused and can’t walk.Armed with these concepts we can unravel the mysteries of, e.g. the Axial Age, which as you saw Karen Armstrong couldn’t get straight.
We don’t understand what we are seeing world history.
Don’t worry if this isn’t clear at first. Just follow the logic of the outline of world history, and its embedded transitions.
The issue of a non-profit book on evolution is important.
Books on evolution always compromise, even if they are critical of Darwinism.
It helps to get out of that racket, and look at the issues without the built in bias.
I have put the first two chapters of World History And The Eonic Effect, Fourth Edition online at history-and-evolution.com: Scroll down to the section #2 box for the menu image of the Chapters to the book.
The links work for the Introduction, Chapter 1, the Appendix and the first section of subsequent chapters, to make the links all work on the menus.
I will put the rest up as time goes on, i.e. soon, (it is a huge job to get all the links to work right), along with a guide to the exit, which seems formidable to some, but which is a lot simpler in this edition.
The eonic effect shows us that the riddle of (human) evolution can be solved by looking at world history. This can seem counterintuitive at first, but only because Darwinian propaganda has confused the issue.
In this edition,theory has gone into the background, and you can simply follow the short world history and outline as an ‘idea for a universal history’.
Coming tomorrow, I hope: the (first pages of the) online edition of World History and The Eonic Effect, fourth edition.
http://history-and-evolution.com/
The third edition of WHEE is about to go off line, and some of the material is not present in the new edition: http://history-and-evolution.com/whee/chap3_1_1.htm
For the Fourth Edition of WHEE:
At a time when theories of evolution are under renewed controversy, discussion is hampered by the remoteness of the phenomenon of evolution, and the use of indirect inference to speculate about deep time. Into the void flows the propaganda of Darwinism attempting to control the myth of human origins. The reign of Darwinism is a pretense of dumbed-down science, and one that cannot explain biological complexity, human consciousness, or the evolution of ethics, in a short list of confusions. Read the rest of this entry »
The debate over evolution has continued since the time of Darwin without resolution, in part because it is a metaphysical contest that is conducted beyond the limits of observation. The claims for natural selection have turned into an ideology short of real science, a kind of metaphysical reductionism. The result has thrown the study of history into confusion, and handed an ideological pseudo-science to many with Social Darwinist agendas. History should be the antidote to this kind of speculative excess, for it enforces the discipline of observation at short range, a century or less, something entirely absent in the study of deep time where generalizations about immense intervals of time are taken for granted without direct empirical observation.
A devastating question haunts standard thinking on evolution: Read the rest of this entry »
My press release again: I have been sending it out to mutiple places. It was an experiment if not being devious in issuing PR’s. But such things backfire, usually. Time to move on to still another version. Meanwhile check out the fourth edition.
At a time when theories of evolution are under renewed controversy, discussion is hampered by the remoteness of the phenomenon of evolution, and the use of indirect inference to speculate about deep time. Into the void flows the propaganda of Darwinism attempting to control the myth of human origins. The reign of Darwinism is a pretense of dumbed-down science, and one that cannot explain biological complexity, human consciousness, or the evolution of ethics, in a short list of confusions. Read the rest of this entry »
No more Mr. Nice Guy: My new press release: http://history-and-evolution.com
At a time when theories of evolution are under renewed controversy, discussion is hampered by the remoteness of the phenomenon of evolution, and the use of indirect inference to speculate about deep time. Into the void flows the propaganda of Darwinism attempting to control the myth of human origins. The reign of Darwinism is a pretense of dumbed-down science, and one that cannot explain biological complexity, human consciousness, or the evolution of ethics, in a short list of confusions.
The result is a parody of the nature of human nature, and an evolutionary fiction passed off as hard data. The result is Darwinian pseudo-science exploiting oversimplification and foisting the abstraction of natural selection onto unseen times and places. Darwinism persists as an ideology disguised as theory, with a Social Darwinist agenda concealed behind the facile claims of hard science. Darwin’s theory is thus suspiciously convenient as a neutralizer of ethical action and serves well as a justification for metaphysical reductionism, scientism, economic ideology, and ideological nihilism.
In a further confusion, Darwinism is under siege from the Intelligent Design movement, in a renewed collision of science and religion. The ancient and honorable design argument is now the agenda of conservative interest groups who are up in arms against Darwinian liberals and secular modernism itself. This perspective, which has coopted the criticisms of many scientific critics of Darwinism, has paralyzed the potential for an orderly paradigm change on the issue of evolution, as the cult of Darwin closes ranks around their limited perspectives. The evolution debate has degenerated into a metaphysical contest over the nature of secularism, and a cult of atheism as a surrogate of the Enlightenment battles fundamentalist theism in a contest fought on the field of evolutionary theories for postmodern sweepstakes.
This situation leaves us suspicious that deception here is deliberate, and that all we are offered on the evolution question is propaganda. Religious and scientific groups have done everything they can to hide the real meaning of evolution. Academic and scientific groups graduating from an educational system dominated by ideology are nonetheless true believers and are able to provide a front of sincerity to the cynicism of this biologico-industrial complex in the era of Big Science.
A new perspective is needed. And we are on our own. Scientific bodies and academic institutions are simply untrustworthy on the evolution question. The Darwin propaganda machine maintains itself through outright distortion and cannot be said to represent even the wish for science. The realm of professionals shows a successful reign of intimidation, making public commentary unbelievable.
A new approach is needed, and is not hard to find. The critique of Darwinism has proceeded beyond public awareness almost from the time of Darwin himself and is a ready resource. If the problem is that we have not observed evolution, then the solution is to observe it. And an unexpected new perspective has emerged from the archaeological revolution that has uncovered an evolutionary dynamic in world history itself: world history, observed at close range, holds the clue if we can understand it. The discovery of the Axial Age is one aspect of this transformation of our knowledge. We see a global process at work in the emergence of civilization in a process of non-random evolution that is non-genetic and almost biospheric in its action. A little detective work can uncover the larger significance of this data, and help us to bring an empirical understanding to the questions of evolution for the first time.
In the light of such data, a devastating question haunts standard thinking on evolution: what if the real force of evolution acts intermittently at high-speed over a range of mere centuries? The vastness of deep time would swallow up such brief episodes and leave no trace whatever. As we examine world history precisely this possibility becomes confirmed, and it shows one of the most obvious solutions to the evolution mystery. We must learn to consider evolution as a chronicle of factual history, remaining wary of the reign of theories disguising the agendas of their proponents. Here world history seen at close range is the bottom line on the evolution question.
The myth of Darwinism endures because it maintains media dominance, and need not answer to the realm of fact, substituting speculation, and educational indoctrination, for science. In the phrase of Karl Popper it is a metaphysical research program, and not a falsifiable theory. The antidote is a dose of empiricism that can show us the real meaning of evolution. And the irony is that world history itself holds the key to the riddle of evolution. It is right that this should be so. We must refrain from imposing speculations about deep time, which we cannot observe, on our historical chronicle, which we do observe. It is an upside down situation and one that cannot persist without throwing discredit on science itself.
We live in the first generations with enough historical data to detect a pattern of historical dynamics. We see the real evolution of man as the Great Transition, the human passage from evolution to history, in the chronicle of the once and future Origin of the Species, Man.
Darwinism is a theory created to snare stupid people, making them fell smart in the process.
Check out some alternate paradigms
The text for World History And The Eonic Effect Fourth Edition is finally online at Amazon.
Check out history-and-evolution.com for some info on the new edition/
This book has survived through four editions.
When all the other crap passes away this snapshot, a glimpse of evolution, will remain.
If you found the earlier editons hard, this is the edition for you.
Note: the publication date says April 27! Nonsense. And they didn’t allow pre-orders.
The publication date is today. Juen 22! These people always try to sabotage this book somehow.
Note: in the ‘customers who also bought…’ section, they is Heidegger’s Being and Time. And that’s all. Bullshit.
These people are constantly trying to sabotage this book.
Reposted from yesterday:
From the new edition: The Legacy of Darwinism
At a time when theories of evolution are under renewed controversy, discussion is hampered by the remoteness of the phenomenon of evolution, and the use of indirect inference to speculate about deep time. In the face of much criticism from religious Creationists, now accompanied by the Intelligent Design movement, adherents of Darwinism forever defend a flawed theory that has been challenged from its first appearance. The objections of the first reviewers of Darwin’s book, indeed even of T. H. Huxley, the original champion of the theory, were never quite answered in the tide of paradigm change that swept modern culture. The perennial issue is natural selection as the mechanism of evolution. The assumption that evolution occurs, and must occur, at random is the crux of the dispute, one unreasonably confused by the claims of religion versus science.
The rise of molecular biology shows a complexity of structure that cannot easily survive statistical challenges to claims of random emergence. The new genetics and the emergence of developmental biology have exposed the limits of Darwin’s original theory, in the remarkable findings of complex biochemical systems and evo-devo. Therefore the critics, whatever the public pronouncements of Darwinists, have essentially won the debate, and retabled the views of many of Darwin’s predecesssors at the birth of embryology in the generation before Origin. We might proceed on that basis, beyond the distracting cultural politics of evolutionary theories, which now sees the resurfacing of the design theology of the generation of Paley. Nothing in the methodology of science requires us to accept the claims of natural selection as established.
Fourth edition out!
As noted already today, the fourth edition of World History And The Eonic Effect is out, with the cover image already corrected.
Note: the publication date is not April 27, but today June 22! (Idiot publisher)
It is hard to believe a publisher would backdate the publication date by two months. Unbelievable.
The text for World History And The Eonic Effect Fourth Edition is finally online at Amazon.
Unfortunately the printer gave them a wrongly cropped cover image. They also ommiitted the new blurb text. The stupidity is almost hard to believe. It took them six weeks to get it wrong.
Not to worry. Amazon is not sloppy and should correct it by tommorrow. Click here for the
Correct cover image, uploaded in the extra images section.
Check out history-and-evolution.com for some info on the new edition/
If you found the earlier editons hard, this is the edition for you.
Note: the publication date says April 27! Nonsense. And they didn’t allow pre-orders.
The publication date is today. Juen 22! These people always try to sabotage this book somehow.
The wrong cover on the first try. Stop pulling my leg.
The new fourth edition of World History And The Eonic Effect takes a new and simpler approach to the issue, less theoretical, and more focussed on world history: http://history-and-evolution.com/
I suddenly realized that people are ignorant of world history. Thus any attempt at theory is hopeless from the start. And the influence of Darwinism has been so deadening that the significance of history is lost, suppressed would be a better word. And religious historicism is not much better. That makes communication hard, when Christian historicism claims one group, and Darwinism another. The result is the endless confusion/collision of biologists who have misplaced evolution, and religionists (Christians) who have misplaced history.
A simple chronicle outline, however, is enough to see ‘evolution in action’ behind the form of outer history.
Coming this summer!
The third edition is going out of print in a few days, download the material now: The eonic effect…
A selection from the fourth edition of WHEE: Selection: In Search Of History
New website makeover for the Fourth Edition of World History And The Eonic Effect, which will be out soon.
This time you have to read the book: it is no longer so theoretical. All you need to do is follow the contours of world history to see its deep structure.
In Search of History
The third edition of WHEE is going out of print this week, so download the material if you want it.
The new edition will less theoretical, more of a mere ‘world history’ in cameo.
The relationship of evolution to history is a simple logica derivation, but so far most Darwinists can’t seem to handle it.
The issue of Kant’s Challenge is discussed online here:4. IDEA FOR A UNIVERSAL HISTORY, chapter four of World History And The Eonic Effect