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1. INTRODUCTION |
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| 1.3.1 Falsifying Darwinism: A Theoretical Self-defense | ||||
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In the relentless promotion of violent evolutionary
theories as ideology and the equal and opposite exploitation of the ambiguities
of such theories in the resurrection of design arguments, the public is lost in
a closed dialectic. We need a method of theoretical self-defense
to achieve a basic sanity in a
debate seeding another phase of the wars of religion. However, those religions
tend naturally via their sense of universal history to choke on the extreme
reductionism of Darwinian explanation. Confronted with a hopelessly botched
theory that has genocidal implications, it is of great importance to see that
evolution Darwin-style is simply not the case, and not confirmed by the
evidence. We can at least quarantine world history from the misapplication of We need a more up to date approach to the idea of universal history. Study of the eonic effect provides this empirically and can act as equalizer to help us to put the whole debate in perspective, to see that our public discourse is condemned to propaganda, and little else. We cannot easily defeat these propagandas serving the agendas of technocratic Big Science and fundamentalist anti-modernism, but we can proceed from the underground, and thence move to replace the obsession with theories with an empirical matrix of historical observation. The eonic effect shows us how to get out of the theory trap, and proceed with a simple time-line or tracker-approximator of macro-history that can give us the rough sense of our evolutionary context without the oversimplifications used to enforce the worldviews of dominant elites. This can allow us to take into account the fact of evolution without the presumption to theory that condemned Darwinism to a pseudo-science for Whiggish impostors. In the process we can bypass the cut-purse abuse of the design argument in service of theocratic domination. The most we can do is to erect a failsafe that will protect historical action from the Darwinian confusion applied to history, our proper domain of action, with its own evolutionary process, one that can better serve our real potential. We can also wrest the Old Testament from the labyrinth of mythology that has grown around it, and see its real significance in the emergence of civilization. It is time to rescue this text from the hallucinations of religious lunacy. In the process we can do better justice to science and religion both, able to recreate the essence of religion in the context of a robust secularism, beyond the derelicts of Axial Age destined break up on the shoals of modernity, and beyond the feeble idiocies of degenerating scientism. Armed with the data of the eonic effect you can stop Darwinian claims for the science of natural selection in their tracks, without getting entangled in religious or design arguments. The associated eonic model can help in seeing the problems with current evolutionary theories and their misapplication to history and culture. |
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