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) ______________ 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. ___________________________________ John Landon [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] Site for World History And The Eonic Effect Second Edition_ http://history-and-evolution.com_ (http://history-and-evolution.com/) Darwiniana: An Evolution Blog_ http://darwiniana.com_ (http://darwiniana.com/) _______________ 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.