We have concluded our brief survey of the evolution controversy, in the process transposing the question into a new framework, that of the issue of evolution in history. That approach resolves at once the difficulty that haunts Darwinism, and shows us a practical way out, by renouncing the claims for oversimplified theories, and restricting our claims to properly observed evolutionary datasets. The only such dataset is world history itself, and we need to renounce theories there also, making use of something like the analysis of the eonic effect to proceed empirically with the theory-substitute of simple periodization, in a fashion that can map out the evolutionary dynamic that we see without making metaphysical claims about its action.

Each section of our all-too-brief survey demands considerable amplification but it is helpful to deal with all the pieces of the puzzle together, to see that we need more than debates over isolated issues. We need a new gestalt to restructure our image of evolution altogether, to rescue ourselves from the fixation on the misleading oversimplification of natural selection.

This survey can lead naturally to a more detailed study, via World History And The Eonic Effect.