Tag: human evolution

Notes/Commentary: Descent of Man Revisited and Decoding World History

We will start a set of notes/commentary on the books in the free library.

Descent of Man Revisited


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Natural selection fallacy left untouched…//Racist and sexist depictions of human evolution still permeate science, education and popular culture today

There is something strange in the stubborn confusion over natural selection. But I used to teach statistics and learned to observe the confusion over ‘odds’ that is one part of the fallacious mindset. But the problem runs deeper that.

This is a very popular text, and has been downloaded tens of thousands of times.

The issue of Darwinism is very troubling and controversial but the issue is simple: the statistics of natural selection don’t work, a point obvious to amateurs, but not professional biologists stuck in their conformist paradigm. There is no way around this, and the claims for random evolution are false.

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Decoding World History
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Marx was a classic critic of theories as ideology and then made the same mistake himself. Historical materialism is an ideology of revolution as historical inevitability. But such a theory will backfire and a host of critics exposed it almost at once. A revolution is a recipe for action, not a theory. It is better to proceed empirically and to see if world history shows any smoking guns that might indicate a better approach. The explosion of historical knowledge has sidelined past players here and shows us something surprising and different. Here the eonic model enters, and disciplines attempts at a science of history with the truly awesome pattern of the eonic effect, if you can attempt to deal with the immense data set tackled.

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The eonic model in WHEE is elegant and simple, but it seems in fact very complicated. But that is because the data of world history is too overwhelming.

Decoding World History is a short version of that, and can make the strange dynamic in world history a little clearer.

Notes/Commentary: Descent of Man Revisited and Decoding World History

We will start a set of notes/commentary on the books in the free library.

Descent of Man Revisited


9780984702909_Descent_of_Man_Revisited(3)

There is something strange in the stubborn confusion over natural selection. But I used to teach statistics and learned to observe the confusion over ‘odds’ that is one part of the fallacious mindset. But the problem runs deeper that.

This is a very popular text, and has been downloaded tens of thousands of times.

The issue of Darwinism is very troubling and controversial but the issue is simple: the statistics of natural selection don’t work, a point obvious to amateurs, but not professional biologists stuck in their conformist paradigm. There is no way around this, and the claims for random evolution are false.

_________________________

Decoding World History
decoding-world-history-ed-1_6dcdx

Marx was a classic critic of theories as ideology and then made the same mistake himself. Historical materialism is an ideology of revolution as historical inevitability. But such a theory will backfire and a host of critics exposed it almost at once. A revolution is a recipe for action, not a theory. It is better to proceed empirically and to see if world history shows any smoking guns that might indicate a better approach. The explosion of historical knowledge has sidelined past players here and shows us something surprising and different. Here the eonic model enters, and disciplines attempts at a science of history with the truly awesome pattern of the eonic effect, if you can attempt to deal with the immense data set tackled.

—————-

The eonic model in WHEE is elegant and simple, but it seems in fact very complicated. But that is because the data of world history is too overwhelming.

Decoding World History is a short version of that, and can make the strange dynamic in world history a little clearer.

Descent of Man Revisited

Descent of Man Revisited

This is one of the most popular books here with tens of thousands of downloads. The Darwin para

This is one of the most popular books here with tens of thousands of downloads. The Darwin paradigm is weakening and will soon become a thing of the past. The ID challenge persists but despite some useful insights it is unable to inject theism into the evolutionary question. Design in nature is real but it is not a theological issue. We have several other books on the subject here. Never be intimidated by Darwinists or academic or other authorities. Natural selection can never work as a mechanism and that’s that. The greater fact of evolution remains, and is still an enigma. Scientists have wasted a century claimed they understand evolution and in the process have blocked any advance. There are dozens of relevant posts on this blog. https://redfortyeight.com/?s=darwinism+evolution


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Descent of Man Revisited

Descent of Man Revisited

This is one of the most popular books here with tens of thousands of downloads. The Darwin para

This is one of the most popular books here with tens of thousands of downloads. The Darwin paradigm is weakening and will soon become a thing of the past. The ID challenge persists but despite some useful insights it is unable to inject theism into the evolutionary question. Design in nature is real but it is not a theological issue. We have several other books on the subject here. Never be intimidated by Darwinists or academic or other authorities. Natural selection can never work as a mechanism and that’s that. The greater fact of evolution remains, and is still an enigma. Scientists have wasted a century claimed they understand evolution and in the process have blocked any advance. There are dozens of relevant posts on this blog. https://redfortyeight.com/?s=darwinism+evolution


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What Was Humanity’s First Cultural Revolution? 

Source: What Was Humanity’s First Cultural Revolution? – CounterPunch.org

Whenever I read an article on (human) evolution I stand back and ask how Darwinian fallacies may have influenced the work. Here, interestingly, it is hard to detect that: that homo sapiens evolved by natural selection is such an absurdity that perhaps students/so-called scientists of human evolution often simply omit discussion of the question and move to what is much more useful in the attempts to document various issues. This data is useful and here the issue of the emergence of violent conflict is discussed usefully. But in fact the selection bias lurks in the background.
It is very hard to study evolution/human evolution because we don’t have the facts. The study of the eonic effect and its model can provide a very general glimpse, one suspects, of the way evolution really works and current socio-biology very far from being able to learn from that.
But it is a perspective that has been able to bypass peer review domination and cancel culture Darwinism enforced strictly. Serious research demands outsiders, as here.
The number of academic books flawed by their ideology of Darwinism is almost staggering. The eonic model should serve as a warning as to just how far off current biology is on the subject of evolution. This approach offers no easy answers but it is a reminder that biologists as students of human evolution can’t define man, and therefore can’t even specify the traits that have emerged/evolved: a good example is the so-called ‘path to Enlightenment’, a staple of some zones of world history for millennia
This raises the question, what is ‘enlightenment’, what is human consciousness in relation to that, and how could such latent potentials evolve in real time. Current biological so-called science couldn’t even acknowledge the question, grant any reality to comnplex states of consciousness, or find Buddhism/Hinduism anything but smass of superstition, to be eliminated in globalization. Such examples show that a definition of man, let alone how he evolved, is completely beyond the ken of current (pseudo-)scicence