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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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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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