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The bottom line on the Darwin Debate
Announcing third edition of
World History And The Eonic Effect
Civilization, Darwinism,
And Theories Of Evolution
Third Edition
_http://eonic-effect.net_ (http://eonic-effect.net/)
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.
* From the Preface Announcing the third revised edition of World
History And The Eonic Effect, the classic underground theoretical self-defense
kit in relation to the Darwinian paradigm. The third edition is almost a new
book and the basic text has been extensively rewritten and streamlined, even as
the basic argument has remained the same. There is much new material and it
has been reorganized to show a more integrated structure, with a few changes
in the terminology of the eonic model. The basic model has remained stable
over three editions, and that leaves the author with increased confidence in
the method and demonstration. An exciting upgrade of the basics of the eonic
effect, and its new model of history... _http://history-and-evolution.com_
(http://history-and-evolution.com/)
* World History And The Eonic Effect contains a radical demonstration
of a non-random pattern in world history. This pattern we call the 'eonic
effect'. Such a pattern is not supposed to exist, and yet we can clearly specify
its outlines and action over the course of five thousand years, with a
definite suspicion about earlier periods of man's emergence. This discovery of
macro-historical structure has implications for our views of the meaning of
evolution and is a consequence of the revolutionary discoveries of archaeology
and the vast increase of our knowledge of both world history and the earlier
emergence of man. For the first time we can survey a long enough interval of
history to put the idea of 'universal history' to a test, and the result is the
uncovering of a definite dynamic at work behind the emergence of
civilization. The data asks us to reconsider the relationship of evolution and history
and demands a new kind of simple model to analyze world history in terms of
the different levels at play. This two-level model elegantly resolves the
paradox of the transition from evolution to history in terms of the idea of an
'evolution of freedom'. The resulting model gives expression to the idea of
'macroevolution', and also most unexpectedly gives meaning to the long
conjectured idea of punctuated equilibrium. The text is comprehensive and outlines
everything needed to 'see' the eonic effect and to harmonize this with issues of
historical interpretation, historical theory, and questions of ideology. The
result can show us the limits of standard types of theory and show the way
to a new kind of theory.
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John Landon
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World History
And The Eonic Effect
Civilization, Darwinism
And Theories of Evolution
Third Edition Now Available
On The Web: (http://history-and-evolution.com/)
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