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World History And The Eonic Effect

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  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. Adherents of Darwinism often defend dogmatic versions of the theory that have been questioned since the first reviewers of Origin of Species. 
Now Darwinism is under siege from the Intelligent Design movement, threatening the school system. The attempt to hijack the debate using long discredited arguments by design tends to make Darwinists close ranks around their flawed science. The debate is deadlocked by the rigidity of both parties, evidence of fixed agendas, and metaphysical presumptions. A new approach is needed. The study of history itself holds the clue if we can find it.

We live in the first generations with enough historical data to detect a pattern of Universal History. The discovery of this pattern, the Eonic Effect, uncovers the evidence for a deep structure resembling punctuated equilibrium in world history itself. The study of history and evolution together shows us something we had missed and allows us to infer the existence of non-random evolution in the emergence of man. Darwinian theory suffers from low evidence density. The Eonic Effect is the only data we have at high evidence density of evolution as a process in real time, and this transforms our views completely.

  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. 
 

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In the confusion over evolutionary theories a new empirical approach is needed. The study of world history shows us unique evidence of evolution in action and provides the clue to the descent of man. The speculative claims for natural selection, especially if these are applied to the history of civilization, in the process generating Social Darwinist ideologies, are shown to be misguided applications of positivistic scientism. The study of the eonic effect, a remarkable non-random pattern in the emergence of civilization, shows us the overlap of history and evolution and in the process demonstrates the way nature 'climbs Mt. Improbable'. 

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1.1 A Glimpse Of Evolution
2.1 The Eonic Effect: Climbing Mt. Improbable
3.1 A Frequency Hypothesis
4.1 Idea For A Universal History
5.1 Symphony Of Emergence
6.1 Transition And Modernity
7.1 Conclusion

The third edition of World History And The Eonic Effect is an exciting upgrade of the presentation of universal history from the earlier editions and provides a comprehensive model of the dynamics of what we can call 'macrohistory'. After examining Darwinism in the Introduction, the text proceeds to outline the eonic effect. Then there are two master outlines of world history, in chapters three, five and six, with an in depth exploration of historical theory in chapter four. In the conclusion questions of theory and ideology are examined and the text concludes with indications of how to use the eonic model as a theoretical self-defense tool in the controversies and ideologies of evolution.  

 
     
 

               

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