World History And The
Eonic Effect
Civilization,
Darwinism,
And
Theories Of Evolution
Third Edition
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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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
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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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World History
And The Eonic Effect
Civilization, Darwinism
And Theories of
Evolution
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