Cimbing Mt. Improbable
The Eonic Effect: Climbing Mt. Improbable
One of the most tenacious claims of defenders of Darwinism is that of the randomness of evolution. By and large, despite various efforts of writers such as Richard Dawkins to claim that natural selection is ‘non-random’, Darwinian theory is about random evolution. And yet this assumption is contradicted by world history itself, where we can see clear evidence of a non-random pattern exhibiting the properties of evolution, ‘evolution of some kind’. We can call this the eonic effect. This pattern gives real meaning to the phrase ‘Climbing Mt. Improbable’.
History and evolution This pattern forces us to ask, What is the relationship of history and evolution? In fact, a careful consideration of what we mean by evolution suggests that the two must be braided together in some way, since the transition between the two could not be discontinuous. This leaves us suspicious about the current claims for the evolution of man. Darwinism makes very strong claims, not only about evolution, but reality itself, based on the thesis that natural selection generates all the complexity that we see in the emergence of biological forms.
These claims are more projections of a set of assumptions about how things should be than properly verified assertions of science. One irony in the study of history is that it enforces a discipline of factual verification. Darwinists see no problem with assertions about unseen periods of deep time, while the historian is committed to an exact and continuous chronicle of ‘what happened’ at the level of millennia, centuries, decades, and years. It is, so far, able to apply this standard to but a few millennia of world history, with considerable data nonetheless in the range of millennia to centuries stretching back to the onset of the Neolithic. The achievement of this data set is very recent and if we examine the result a very definite overall pattern begins to emerge. In fact, we begin to see what we can call the ‘transition from evolution to history’, and this is a definite process of what can only be called ‘macroevolution’, and it doesn’t square with wild generalizations about natural selection.
Climbing Mt. Improbable World History And The Eonic Effect sets as its prime objective the demonstration of a non-random pattern in world history itself, the eonic effect. And this leaves us suspicious about what is often called the Great Explosion, the sudden transition to modern man that we deduce from the woefully incomplete data of the Paleolithic. Armed with a perception of the eonic effect, we are left suspicious that current theories have completely missed the main event. Although we cannot draw definite conclusions without the same standard of evidence that we apply to history, we can quarantine world history and block the misapplication of Darwinian assumptions to cultural evolution.
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