I’m through reading part one of Darwin’s Black Box. The quotes below from the book really struck me, because they point to something I have had in the back of my mind for some time: uniformitarianism vs. catastrophism in terms of the history of the world from Laura’s work and how Darwin’s evolution ideas fit into it. I even made a note back when reading ‘Secret History of the World’ wondering about the ideas of Darwin’s evolution being a form of or an extension of uniformitarianism.
Paleontologist Niles Eldredge describes the problem:
No wonder paleontologists shied away from evolution for so long. It never seems to happen. Assiduous collecting up cliff faces yields zigzags, minor oscillations, and the very occasional slight accumulation of change—over millions of years, at a rate too slow to account for all the prodigious change that has occurred in evolutionary history. When we do see the introduction of evolutionary novelty, it usually shows up with a bang, and often with no firm evidence that the fossils did not evolve elsewhere! Evolution cannot forever be going on somewhere else. Yet that’s how the fossil record has struck many a forlorn paleontologist looking to learn something about evolution.
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Gould has been at the forefront of the discussion of another fascinating phenomenon: the “Cambrian explosion.” Careful searches show only a smattering of fossils of multicellular creatures in rocks older than about 600 million years.
Yet in rocks just a little bit younger is seen a profusion of fossilized animals, with a host of widely differing body plans. Recently the estimated time over which the explosion took place has been revised down from 50 million years to 10 million years—a blink of the eye in geological terms.
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All told, Darwin’s theory has generated dissent from the time it was published, and not just for theological reasons. In 1871 one of Darwin’s critics, St. George Mivart, listed his objections to the theory, many of which are surprisingly similar to those raised by modern critics.
What is to be brought forward (against Darwinism) may be summed up as follows: That “Natural Selection” is incompetent to account for the incipient stages of useful structures. That It does not harmonize with the co-existence of closely similar structures of diverse origin. That there are grounds for thinking that specific differences may be developed suddenly instead of gradually. That the opinion that species have definite though very different limits to their variability is still tenable. That certain fossil transitional forms are absent, which might have been expected to be present…. That there are many remarkable phenomena in organic forms upon which “Natural Selection” throws no light whatever
I’ve also been re-reading the last chapter and afterword of SHOTW over the last week or so.
A couple things stood out to me when reading it in conjunction with reading DBB.
A couple quotes from SHOTW:
The linear conception of time is intimately connected to the idea of evolution. The events of history are a continuing unfoldment of new and more perfect manifestations of both man, man’s work, and this the spirit of God.
But despite the reaction of the orthodox Fathers, the theories of cycles and of astral influence on human destiny and historical events were accepted, at least in part, by other Fathers [of the church] and ecclesiastical writers, such as Clement of Alexandria, Minucius Felix, Arnobius, Theodret, the conflict between these two fundamental conceptions of time and history continued into the seventeenth century.
We must remind the reader that, at the height of the Middle Ages, cyclical and astral theories begin to dominate historiological and eschatological speculation. Already popular in the twelfth century, they undergo systematic elaboration in the next, especially after the appearance of translations from Arabic writers. … Albertus Magnus, St. Thomas, Roger Bacon, Dante, and many others believe[d] that the cycles and periodicities of the world’s history are governed by the influence of the stars, whether this influence obeys the will of God and is his instrument in history or whether it is regarded as a force immanent in the cosmos.
In short, the time of the creation of the Grail legends was precisely the moment when eschatological conceptions were combined with and complemented by the theory of cyclic return of events.
In spite of the Crusades and Inquisition, these ideas dominated down to the seventeenth century. And it was then that the Control System began to mop-up operation to eradicate these ideas. Because, it is also at this precise time that the linear progress of history began to assert itself, most particularly through the influence of Isaac Newton.
From the seventeenth century on, linearism and the progressivistic conception of history asserts themselves more and more, inaugurating faith in infinite progress, a faith already proclaimed by Leibniz… popularized in the nineteenth century by the triumph of the ideas of the evolutionist.
Karl Marx, in an extremity of materialism, proposed that all of the suffering of humanity is not arbitrary; it is designed to lead man to a definite and coherent end – a final elimination of the Terror of History via a material salvation which constituted an “age of gold”, or Heaven on Earth of Marxism. This of course justified the exacerbation of evil to hasten the final deliverance – an idea not unknown to Judaism and Christianity as evidenced in the Crusades, Inquisition, and frighteningly, in the present day regression into fundamentalism in America and Isreal.
Seems to me that Darwin’s work and acceptance and pushing of it became an extension of the efforts of the ‘Control System’ and from reading this thread and the thoughts of others on how it fits with all we know that it is a major piece of puzzle toward possible agendas.
Also, seems to me that all that we have been learning about Postmodernism, Carl Jung, Darwism (and the impact of these three), Intelligent design and what is laid out in this thread really helps to round out the picture to a large extent of what Laura was writing about in SHOTW. That the ‘Control System’ saw the religious program failing and/or implemented another program in terms of materialism and linear evolution, etc to supplement it and/or replace it. Then we have what we have now in terms of what looks like could be the ‘the program is complete.’ And like what Laura has said in the past about there being a website for everyone can be seen that there could be an ideology or religion for everyone meant to entrap as many as possible.
More thoughts I have been having. Darwinism = uniformitarianism = slow gradual change guided by nature without ‘God’. Much like how uniformitarianism supplanted the knowledge or view of cyclical nature of time and catastrophes that was forming in terms of a blending of science and religion that Laura details. That Darwinism created an outlet for a godless or no higher power ideology and another trap. It is like Darwinism and uniformitarianism as the leading accepted and pushed theories were a reaction and means to replace people that were exploring existence through science, but not swearing off ‘God’ or a higher power. And not allowing people to have a sense and exploration via science of a higher influence and spiritual connection with nature and universe.
Darwinism and uniformitarianism were meant to push the ‘Godless’ agenda and that mankind and the material world and materialism were and are ‘God.’ Severing any connection with the divine aspects of creation or that the divine even exists. That there is no higher order for which a person and people should pay respect to and try to learn about.
That only science without ‘God’ is the answer. And that this gives mankind an undeserved position, sense of power and sense of control over nature/creation. Replacing ‘God.’ Assuming the position of ‘God.’ Kind of like the hubris mentioned in terms of Jung teaching people that they are gods within or could become ‘God.’
And in the present, this allows the push to try to dominate and control all people via this perspective and blaming people and humanity for natural processes (ie the Global Warming agenda). Telling them they are responsible for it all and thus must cede sovereignty, choice and the ability to voice dissent from establishment ‘godless’ perspectives and actions to those that see themselves as in the place of ‘God.’ Maybe how a psychopath seems themselves.
I also found this quote from SHOTW interesting to think about in relation to all of this:
Is it possible that Fulcanelli made use of “superluminal communication techniques” as I had myself? Was this why Fulcanelli insisted as follows:
”Furthermore, in our opinion, it seems insufficient to know how to recognize and classify facts exactly; one must still question nature and learn from her in what conditions and under the control off what will her manifold productions take place. Indeed, the philosophical mind will not be content with the mere possibility of identifying bodies. It demands the knowledge of the secret of their elaborations. To open ajar the door of the laboratory where nature mixes the elements is good; to discover the occult force, under whose influences her work is accomplished, is better”[…]
I thought when re-reading this with all the information on DNA, information systems, etc that have been talked about recently on the forum that the ‘will’ of nature and the ‘occult force’ mentioned could have some thing to do with the intelligence or force that drives life and powers DNA.
Finally, what can be more divine or inline with ‘God’/the universe than exploring ‘His’ creation in all its facets, within the limits of not ‘offending’ this creation, desecrating it, while at the same time as exploring and mastering oneself toward aligning oneself with creation and its ‘occult force(s).’ And when properly developed, a person is able to exert influence through self-awareness and consciousness to have the ability to consciously harness, align with and possibly control the force/energy/intelligence/source that drives the function of DNA, the cell and life, which is all contained within a person. Disciplining oneself to be in alignment with the ‘occult forces’ while at the same time not mistaking oneself for ‘God.’