I wrote yesterday about Wade’s _Before the Dawn_ 
(http://darwiniana.com/2006/07/01/wades-before-the-dawn/)  (see below), his account of human  evolution. 
The strangest thing about this book (and others like it) is the way  it 
unwittingly presents the case against Darwin’s account (on man) without  realizing 
it, even as it purports to show how Darwin’s theory is confirmed by  the facts. 
This is a statement about standard theory, natural selection, not the  reality 
of evolution as fact. The strangest part of it is the casual way of  dealing 
with a real howler: language as we know it, so Wade reiterates over and  over, 
suddenly appears around 50K years ago, and nothing strange is registered  at 
this fact. Language is a fairly complex attainment, no? We didn’t apparently  
have it, as current, 150K-100K years ago, yet by 50K we have it (some early 
form  of language, of course, most probably existed, but nothing like what is  
characteristic of behaviorally modern man). Since then, 50K years ago, no  
further fundamental evolution in this human characteristic has occurred. These  
units of 50K add up to a contradiction in current biological reasoning. More  
like a gapping void. And no, some lucky mutation couldn’t have accomplished all  
this at a stroke. Darwinists must be in a trance. They don’t even try to hide 
 the discrepancies the paradigm blinds them from seeing.
It is unfair to the  public to be so dogmatic about such questions when the 
data really doesn’t  confirm what is claimed.
You can point this out, but nothing registers in the  minds of scientists. 
Blank stares, and further repetition of the triumph of  Darwinism in explaining 
everything.
A careful look at the eonic effect will  show at once what Darwinists are 
probably missing.
_The Great Explosion_ (http://history-and-evolution.com/2nd/chaptwo2_2.htm)  
 
 
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Here's the post about Wade's book: 
Before the Dawn : Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors by Nicholas  
Wade 
comment: 
This is a very useful and interesting summary of the evidence of human  
evolution, and manages to produce a clearer rendition of the Darwinian  perspective 
than many specialized texts. It also has a lot of relevant  information on 
many subjects, such as the question of linguistic change. But  just at that 
point, and almost for that reason, the problem with the Darwinian  viewpoint 
stands out in sharp relief: it makes no sense, and there is no real  theory behind 
the crafted attempts to find cases of adaptation. We never really  see any 
human evolution at all! What we see is a series of transformed hominids  
appearing from Africa and proceeding to spread across Eurasia (and then the  Americas) 
as a fully formed species undergoing microevolutionary adaptations,  but 
little more. Thus the claim that man is still evolving in civilization (some  
excellent points despite the problems)is misleading. It is the same species  ‘man’
 who is passing through all the stages since the mysterious and unexplained  
moment ca. 50000 years ago when the behaviorally modern man armed all at once  
with language appears as if from nowhere. Darwinists have failed to face the  
obvious: the Great Explosion doesn’t fit in with their paradigm. This basic  
incoherence is never addressed either in this book, nor by Darwinians in  
general. 

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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.