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September 2019 Newsletter |
Evolutionary Biology textbooks: | |
| Hard natural empirical science involves objective analysis – detached investigation, quantification, and classification (inductive reasoning), as in chemistry and physics. | Soft human behavioral science includes subjective motivations – assumed values, attitudes, tastes, and preferences (deductive reasoning), as in sociology and psychology. |
| On origins, evolutionary Biology textbooks are models of rhetoric in soft human behavioral science, not manuals of research in hard natural empirical science, because they OPPORTUNISTICALLY claim that … “The uniformitarian present* is the key to the past.” (*i.e., long ages) EXCEPT WHEN IT IS NOT – NAMELY, WHEN
The non-uniformitarian past** is the key to the present. (**i.e., life from non-life) | |
| Is the uniformitarian present the key to a non-uniformitarian past, and vice versa? If the present is uniformitarian, why was not the past? If the past was non-uniformitarian, why is not the present? | |
| Because each of the two circularly-reasoned conflicting claims above is supposedly true only if and when it upholds evolutionary Biology on origins, and allegedly false only if and when it upends evolutionary Biology on origins. | |
| But if the present, like the past, is non-uniformitarian, long ages may be unnecessary. Or if the past, like the present, was uniformitarian, life did not arise from non-life. | |
| If both clashing statements above are equally true, they are likewise equally false, because they are mutually exclusive. “Uniformitarian non-uniformitarianism” and “non-uniformitarian uniformitarianism” are their inevitable reductio ad absurdum. | |
| With philosophical naturalism the mandated end and a nature-centered view of origins the necessary means, chaos, illogic, contradiction, incoherence, irrationality, and self-refutation taint evolutionary Biology textbooks on origins. | |
| Feigned synthesis of the two antitheses above, with non-sequitur evolutionary origins premised on philosophical naturalism, is quasi-religious pseudo-science. Any total view of reality is a religion. Not all religions are theistic. | |
| On origins, evolutionary Biology textbooks tout philosophical naturalism, not the study of nature; and pitch soft human behavioral science, not hard natural empirical science. | |
| Epitaph for a Tattered TEXTile | ||
| 'Midst this flawed cloth a snag doth run. When tugged, with warp and woof undone, That fatal thread relentlessly Unravels the whole tapestry. |
It frays, by false assumptions roiled; It rips, by cynic crafters spoiled – Strategic stitchings cleft apart, A ragged fabric, shredded art. |
Asunder thru these blunders torn From self-destructive weaving worn, No emperor's new clothes can hide Such naturalistic suicide. |