History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)

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Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources.

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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03

Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.

Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19

Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.

Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09

There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.

For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.

Very Interesting.......2007-03-07

It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.

History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10

Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.

I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.

Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.

Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.

I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.

This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.

Biocosm: The New Scientific Theory of Evolution: Intelligent Life Is the Architect of the Universe

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An alternative to ID and Landscape Random Cosmos
Infinite Regress of Intelligent Designers
Bio-Blah
Cosmic Biocomics
Ockham's Razor cuts this book off my list.

Biocosm: The New Scientific Theory of Evolution: Intelligent Life Is the Architect of the Universe
James N. Gardner
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For many years, traditional cosmologists and proponents of faith-based "intelligent design" have fought over the origin of the universe. One side maintains that pure chance can explain everything; the other that there must be a God. In Biocosm, James Gardner examines the evidence and finds a third hypothesis, one that has the approval of a number of noted skeptics and scientists. He calls it the "Selfish Biocosm," in a nod to Richard Dawkins, and outlines it in this homage to Charles Darwin. Gardner states his hypothesis:

The basic idea is that the anthropic, or life-friendly, qualities that our universe exhibits are logical and predictable consequences of a cosmic reproduction cycle in which a cosmologically extended biosphere, developed and evolved over billions of years to unimaginable levels of sophistication, serves as the device by which our cosmos duplicates itself and propagates one or more "baby universes."

Like many of the sentences in Biocosm, this one requires multiple readings before its meaning and ramifications sink in. This is not an easygoing, blow-your-mind look at the universe. Gardner is meticulous in outlining his ideas, explaining their falsifiability and scientific rigor, and offering deep chaos theory to support them. Did our universe create intelligent life in order to ensure its own reproduction? Gardner thinks so, though he knows his position will irk many cosmologists exhausted from battling pseudoscientists and creationists. His impressive list of scientific supporters includes Sir Martin Rees (Britain's Astronomer Royal), Michael Shermer (publisher of Skeptic magazine), and John Casti (Santa Fe Institute honcho). Biocosm synthesizes many disciplines and theories in its conclusions, offering much food for cosmological thought. --Therese Littleton

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Biocosm challenges both sides of the controversy over evolution and creationism. This carefully reasoned book proposes that life and intelligence have not emerged as a series of random accidents, as Darwinists like Stephen Jay Gould have maintained, but are hardwired into the cycle of cosmic creation, evolution, death, and rebirth. Gardner's theory of an exponential coevolution of biological and electronic intelligence, designed and directed, offers an extraordinary vision of a universe of point and purpose. Stunning color photos are included.

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An alternative to ID and Landscape Random Cosmos.......2006-03-21

Since the greeks, two contrasting ideas are the main players in the discussion of the Cosmos origin. Today, Inteligent Design postulates an inteligent creator for our Universe (with the hidden agenda that "He" is possibly the Christian or Islamic onipotent God). Another view postulates an infinite Landscape of possible Universes, from those, by pure chance, a tiny fraction enables complexity and life to emerge (and we, of course, inhabit one of these lucky universes). The authors discuss a Third Way, a vision that fuses both ideas: the universes evolve by Darwinian or even Genetic Engineering mechanisms where galactic biospheres play a catalizing role in the creation of baby universes. In contrast to some naive reviews done here, apparently writen by ID supporters, it is indeed an intriging and non-trivial alternative. The idea does not involves an infinite regress because at each generation the universe parameters (akin to genes) are selected as to produce more easily the next inteligent biospheres. This means that the biophylic character of the universes pool is increasing along time, it is not an stationary process. So, what it is need is a proto-evolutionary model for the first biophilic universe. Perhaps the Smolin model of baby universes catalized by black holes is such protoevolutionary mechanism. This means that the Inteligent Designer is not omnipotent or omniscient, but evolves along time by a Darwinian mechanism: a true synthesis between the ID and standard science. This means that any argument or "evidence" for ID is also favourable to the Biocosmo Hypotesis(BH), and BH should be discussed in schools where ID is taught. So, the final question is: the Designer is onipotent? If so, why the Cosmos is full of "problems" and "evil", from the point of view of Life. The Selfish Biocosmo accounts this, Christian or Islamic ID, not.

Infinite Regress of Intelligent Designers.......2004-11-24

The fatal flaw of the 'Biocosm' hypothesis is that of infinite regress: Each designed universe had a designer, which in turn had to have a super-designer, and so on. Ultimately, to avoid such a regress of designers, we must begin with a universe capable of producing designers that was not itself designed. But the possibility of an undesigned universe capable of producing intelligent designers undermines the whole purpose of proposing the Biocosm hypothesis in the first place. So ultimately 'Biocosm' doesn't solve the fundamental problem it sets out to solve, it merely postpones it. Note that the theistic argument from design fails for a similar reason: If organized complexity (e.g., life) requires a designer, then so does an intelligent living God (who must be organized and complex if he is to be intelligent and alive). This God, in turn, would require a super-intelligent designer, ad infinitum. It's time we all bravely faced reality, and let go of our anthropocentric hubris.

Bio-Blah.......2004-10-06

Initially intrigued with this book, I quickly lost interest. It starts out well but then degenerates into a bunch of random points which the author tries to use to argue his hypothesis that the universe was designed to give rise to intelligent life as a final outcome. The blurbs along the margin were major distractions & made it hard to stay focused on the actual material in the book. The book just kind of wanders around the various fields of science trying to find evidence to support the author's premise and then ends with the pronouncement that we're the peak of creation (very Genesis-like). I'd have to pronounce this book mildly interesting if you can wade through the claptrap and the biased agenda.

Cosmic Biocomics.......2004-03-07

This collage of theoretical explorations is as fascinating as it is (apparently) incoherent and gives a progress report on the current state of evolutionary speculation, driven by the unadmitted breakdown of the Darwinian viewpoint, a reality that can't be acknowledged in public. And that's the problem here. You can't have it both ways. It seems the ID people have Darwinists spooked and on the run, and while the elements of a new approach to evolution are certainly appearing over the horizon noone can summon up the presence of mind to ditch natural selection. Contradictory hybrids come into existence in a sort of frolic of wild notions. Now we have cosmic selection theories and Dawkins' selfish gene projected onto cosmology. Far be it from me to throw cold water on all these shenigans, especially since I find it all luridly fascinating and the book entertaining. One thing the author has done is to place the pieces of the puzzle, au courant, onto the table. Perhaps one can somehow fit them together, Darwin, selectionism, ID, anthropics, baby universes, exobilogical exhuberance, and finally a bit of Kant. I was alarmed to see the author confused by Robert Wright's directionality thesis from Non Zero with its total confusion and cooptation of Kant's essay on history. For, whatever we make of the cosmological foundations of biological theory the question of history remains inscrutable as far as current Darwinism is concerned, and Kant's essay points the way to the right question, and provides elements of the right methodology.(Cf. the reviewer's material on this issue of Kant) Current science simply cannot handle any of that,it seems. You can't hybridize Kant and Darwin. As long as the delusion persists that the descent of man was the result of natural selection the basic incoherence will persist. In fact, human history is completely beyond the reach of current science. It's not even in the right ball park and has degenerated from the insights of the Enlightenment. The result is a lot of confused physicists who are too smart to realize they are acting stupidly.
All this said, I enjoyed the somewhat disordered collation of theoretical ideas. The bits and pieces keep flying out of nowhere and I couldn't quite keep track of it all, and the standard appearance of the nonsense about sociobiological ethics mars the result. The overall picture however is highly intriguing, as an idea for the revision of current views around a theme/theory of cosmic life processes. But it is difficult to proceed without a theory of the evolution of consciousness, and there current science hasn't a clue.
Guess what! Modern science doesn't have a coherent theory of evolution. The author unwittingly lets the cat out of the bag. No wonder they have peer review.

Ockham's Razor cuts this book off my list........2003-10-06

Recognizing that an intelligent designer of our universe is needed to plausibly account for the fine-tuning required for it's existence, this books author tries to avoid using anything like the omnipotent, omniscient and omnibenevolent God of Christianity as that designer. Instead he relies on a very powerful being that's more like a super-mom or super-scientist of a prior universe to do the birthing. Our infant universe--as it's mother before--has a built-in purpose to develop more "complexity" and eventually evolve to the point when it can give birth to another similar infant universe just like it's mother did to it before. This is repeated over and over again, hopefully without going astray, producing "kid universes" that provide enough "complexity" so the chain is never permanently broken. Here no prior universe exists in eternal quiescence.

But how did all this start? Whatever _begins_ to exist has a cause, how did that beginning arise? One way to avoid the regress, which then brings back what _some_ atheists want to avoid, is an eternal, uncaused intelligent designer that is timeless before creation and omnitemporal at once with creation. The author doesn't want any of that. A closed causal chain that's not self-defeating makes the "future" cause the "past" in one big loop so there never is any real beginning to time and this big cycle just always is.

One still wonders whether this infinitely birthing cycle of universes cause even more problems than a universe with a beginning. Most don't think that an infinite number of things is real because this leads to all sorts of self-contradictions and seems to provide no basis for rational thought. Consider that subtracting all odd numbers from all natural numbers gives an infinite number. So infinity minus infinity is infinity. However, subtracting all numbers greater than 2 leaves 3. So infinity minus infinity is 3! If actual infinites cannot exist in reality, an actual infinite temporal regress of events is an actual infinite and therefore an actual infinite temporal regress of events cannot exist. Another way of looking at it is through successions of events. Since an actual infinite cannot be reached by successive addition, and a temporal series of events is a collection formed by successive addition, then the series of temporal events cannot be infinite. It seems that time and the universe must have had a beginning a finite time ago.

Besides this book being pure speculation and propaganda, it has many specious arguments and one may want to look at other works on these topics. This may also help in deciding if the authors theory is really "falsifiable." Actually, the whole notion of "falsifiability" deserves study.

Anyway, one suggestion is to have a look at the book "GOD? A Debate Between A Christian And An Atheist" by William Lane Craig and Walter Sinnot Armstrong for better arguments.

I side with the "atheist" that believes in an intelligent designer that was atemporal and maybe "supernatural" but not one that has all the characteristics of the Christian God. This is mainly because the defense given by theists to the "problem of evil" just doesn't cut it for me, but these defenses may for others.

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The Origins of Life : Evolution As Creation
Hoimar von Ditfurth
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Strange Creations

Awesome

Leaves out the most bizarre theory of all

Excellent explanation of nutty creation stories

A Stirring Collection of Bizarre Ideas About Origins.

Strange Creations: Aberrant Ideas of Human Origins from Ancient Astronauts to Aquatic Apes
Donna Kossy
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Charles Darwin wasn't the only one to come up with a contemporary explanation for the origin of human beings. Homespun fantasies and myths abound — the imaginative creations of dreamers, cult leaders, amateur scientists, racists, and rogues. Among the theorists this collection introduces are the eccentric English lord who believes that men are a cross between extraterrestrials and their Martian servants, a successful television journalist whose book suggests that humans evolved from aquatic apes, and a UFO investigator convinced that humans were bred as pets for brilliant dinosaurs.

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Strange Creations.......2006-08-24

Diana Kossy's _Strange Creations_ contains on odd compendium of bizarre theories of man's origins. It discusses hypotheses as diverse as extraterrestrial origins to creationism as advocated by fundamentalist Bible Christians. Probably the oddest theory is that of an eccentric German pseudo-scientist Oscar Kiss Maerth--man "de-evolved" from apes who discovered that eating the brains of fellow apes that they could not only increase their sexually virility but their intelligence as well. Some of the theories posit that mankind is not "evolving" or progressing to a higher state of intelligence but is rather de-evolving from a more spiritual state into a materialistic, lustful and warlike one over the course of the past several millennia. Kossey also discusses racialist theories as to how different human races developed (from both white Christian Identity believers and Black Muslims) along different lines. She also includes a section on the Eugenics movement since proponents of Eugenics wanted to consciously promote the evolution of a superior type of man. Unfortunately, the author is hardly sympathetic to her subjects and she reflects the standard liberal world view on nearly every page.

Awesome.......2005-08-02

This book is phenomenal. It's written with a philosophical/historical tone and delves deeply into the bases of bizzarre beliefs and their creators. A somewhat dry read, it maintains a factual presentation without blatant opinion, sarcasm or comedy. If you want that, however, visit www.insolitology.com and you'll have your laughter dosage for the day. Still, for the curious seekers of truth, this is a great means of learning that there really isn't any truth, save that which we make.

Leaves out the most bizarre theory of all.......2005-04-30

Completely fails to discuss the most fantastic and least logical idea promulgated withing the last 200 years, that life in all of its variation evolved from a series of random accidents.

As for criticism of the aquatic ape theory, it's far more logical than other "mainstream" theories and most scientists have ran from this theory without even attmepting to evaluate it. After all, it was written by a woman in a man's profession so why should it be taken seriously?

Excellent explanation of nutty creation stories.......2003-07-29

This book explains the history of nutty creation stories. I particular enjoyed the historical perspective, documenting how all new-age beliefs date back to Blavatsky, why people are drawn to such beliefs, and how these beliefs changed through the years. This book provides excellent debunking material.

A Stirring Collection of Bizarre Ideas About Origins........2002-06-01

_Strange Creations_ by Donna Kossy presents some of the most bizarre and far-fetched ideas and theories which have been conceived by the human consciousness to explain human origins. In an attempt to challenge the accepted scientific accounting of origins, Darwinian evolution, attempts have been made to claim our ancestors were space men from the stars, that evolution occurs in reverse, that eugenics or racism is necessary to explain human development, that the biblical account of creation in Genesis is to be interpreted literally, that our ancestors were aquatic apes, that the Urantia Book explains our origins, and that a certain UFO cult holds the secret to human conscious evolution ("Heaven's Gate"). The book includes a fairly decent discussion of Nazi ideas concerning evolution and eugenics as well as Social Darwinism. Among the more bizarre theories suggested are those of the devolutionists (including the punk band DEVO). For instance, the book _The Beginning Was the End_ by Oscar Kiss Maerth suggests that we owe our existences to cannibalistic brains-eating apes. Another bizarre theory is that of Stanislav Szukaski, who contends that an ongoing struggle between true humans and Yeti-humans has shaped our history. The book includes a bizarre discussion of the UFO cult which ended in tragic suicide, "Heaven's Gate". Overall this book presents a strange concoction of some of the ideas floating at the further extremes of human consciousness.

Creation Rediscovered: Evolution & the Importance of the Origins Debate

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Is Evolution Compatible With Scripture?
Evolution: the greatest myth of our time
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Creation Rediscovered: Evolution & the Importance of the Origins Debate
Gerard Keane
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Is Evolution Compatible With Scripture?.......2004-01-03

"Creation Rediscovered" is a most impressive, extensively-documented defense of young-Earth creationism, combined with a theological/philosophical analysis designed to demonstrate forcefully how evolution is inconsistent with authentic revelation and to point out the immensely negative effects of evolution upon society. I have great sympathy for what its author seeks to accomplish in terms of defending true religion and protecting society from the dangers of atheistic naturalism.

In 1989, I devoted a sabbatical leave from Niagara University to investigation of many of the philosophical issues arising from the interface of evolutionary theory and religious revelation, especially with respect to the historicity of Adam and Eve as depicted in Genesis. For more than ten years, I examined these questions while working on a manuscript dealing with such issues as the biological species concept vs. the natural philosophical species concept, the philosophical possibility of evolution, the impact of ape-language studies on human uniqueness, the question of extraterrestrial life, the relation of paleoanthropological finds to human origins as depicted in Genesis, and many other topics. During that time, I read an earlier edition of "Creation Rediscovered" and a number of other scientific creationist works. For some time I judged that young-Earth creationism was sound science and that evolution was completely untenable.

Still, the more I read the scientific literature, the more I began to see equally impressive counterpoints to creationist arguments. Moreover, I came to realize that some form of descent with modification was not necessarily opposed to sound Scriptural interpretation. God's existence can be metaphysically proven as can the existence of a spiritual human soul. Naturalistic evolutionary theory is untenable because God does exist and can act directly upon His creation as He wishes. But that need not mean that some form of evolutionary process is not employed by God in the creative process. My manuscript was finally published as "Origin of the Human Species" (Editions Rodopi: 2001) and again in a second edition (Sapientia Press: 2003). My book shows how evolutionary theory can be compatible with authentic reading of Genesis, including affirming the reality of Adam and Eve as our first parents. It was endorsed by the late highly respected Catholic theologian John A. Hardon, S.J., and adheres to the Scriptural judgments of the 1909 Catholic Biblical Commission, thereby showing its consistency with traditional Christian teachings about human origins.

"Creation Rediscovered" represents well the scientific creationist viewpoint, and I would urge that it be read widely. Still, my own research convinces me that the science beneath young-Earth creationism can be challenged forcefully by conventional science. Moreover, we need recall that science itself has definite epistemological limitations which render tenuous its most speculative conclusions. I do not wish to condemn Gerard Keane's findings, since I sympathize with his evident desire to defend traditional Christian teaching and ward off the evils that have befallen humanity in the guise of naturalistic evolutionary doctrines. Still, my own research convinces me that evolutionary theory - provided it is not in the form of atheistic naturalism - can be consistent with traditional beliefs about human origins, even down to the details of Adam and Eve as found in the Book of Genesis. Authentic revelation and traditional Christian philosophy have nothing to fear from sound science.

Evolution: the greatest myth of our time.......2003-04-13

Mr. Keane has explored numerous aspects of the Origins debate and has delved into some of the most important questions regarding the contoversey. While oriented toward Catholics and any other Christian believers in particular, this marvelous book is sound and pack-filled with captivating scientific evidence refuting the so-called theory of evolution while at the same time shedding light on scientific findings that give support for the Biblical account. Philoshopy and theoglogy are not discounted as invalid fields of knowledge; history and science show that materialism and naturalism are the belief systems that must be reconsidered. A fun and excellent read. A must read for any Catholic and a definite read for any true scientist who is not afraid of what nature may or may not tell him- it tells the truth; man may not.

A reader searching for the right book!.......2002-03-04

This book is an excellent book!! Gerard Keane covers every aspect and argument out there. He is very honest and I feel his book allows you the reader to make your own decisions about the Origins debate. It is a must read. I couldn't put it down. I can't say enough good things about it!

A good laugh, this book is a joke.......2001-06-17

This isn't a science book, its a religious book disguised as science. Anyone with some knowledge in a subject can present their distorted views in a positive light and prove that 1+1 doesn't equal 2. I've seen plenty of works like this. The only people who fall for it are those who are ignorant in the first place. If you have some knowledge of the subject you can quickly see through the malarkey.

Evolution does NOT have to be at odds with religion. Just accept the fact that god created the universe and all its physical laws. Earth is also his creation and it formed based on how he created the universe. Evolution from simple to complex scares some. Just accept it. God is a lot smarter than we are. We cant deny his laws because we are afraid of them or don't understand them.

Ignorance is not bliss. Learn.

Review from the Publisher.......2001-03-08

There are two fundamental but contradictory understandings of life and all physical reality from the point of view of their origins: Creation and Evolution. This book is primarily a study of Evolution, which carefully considers all basic aspects of that belief system - both "Natural Evolution" and Theistic Evolution." The author covers the basic question, the two basic Evolution theories, the concept of "Special Creation," the discoveries of science, the fossil record, genetics, entropy (the conservation of energy, etc.) the age of the universe, pointers to a Creator, the problems with "Theistic Evolution" and "Progressive Creation," and a number of other questions. The outcome is that there is not only no proof for Evolution, but that the proof from DNA shows that Evolution cannot occur! One of the great hallmarks of this important book is the author's discussion on the influence of Evolution on belief systems. He shows in the first part of the book that Evolution as a belief system is not only unfounded, but is contradicted at every turn by the scientific facts. AND YET Evolution forms the underlying belief structure of Nazism, Communism, Socialism, Existentialism, Humanism, and Modernism (the formally condemned heretical belief that is rife among today's Catholic clergy and hierarchy). Thus, many leading "isms" in todya's Church and world are based upon fundamental belief assumptions that are positively wrong! This book is pivotal for everyone today because it puts to rest once and for all the possibility for Evolution and it shows that we face the erroneous deductions and false policies of a host of deluded minds in both our Church and in our society. Not enought can be said for the impoortance of this book.

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Devolution & Evolution of the Soul.......2003-08-09

Kathy Callahan's book is a priceless treasure of who we really are, where we've been and where we are going.....if we desire to pay the price (of self) for awakening. It is a wonderous book for the seeker, the Sufi (seeking the path of the heart), to reconnect with how loving God, the Friend, the Beloved really is and how much he cares for us in our long journeys away (devolving) and returning (evolving) back to him
I find myself returning to her book over and over again, when I have questions about the nature of the soul, about how easy it is to become entrapped in materiality and how to move towards the way of the Christ.
For many, this book may seem arcane or obtuse, filled as it is with a history of humanity's journey based on a mystic/seer named Edgar Cayce, who died almost 60 years ago. However, for those of us who came to the Christ precisely because of how he was 're'-presented in the Cayce readings, Kathy Callahan's account of our Origins & Destiny is a touchstone, a wellspring of joy and insight for me to use, in conjunction with other Scripture and practice, as a means of focus, of alignment, so we too can both 'remember and return' to who we were and, more importantly, who we will be, after experiencing and overcoming the earth.
Kathy Callahan's book is especially powerful for me for several other reasons as well. She offers a role into the Christ that is truly 'Cosmic' in origin, providing a richness and opportunity for appreciation as to how He truly is 'The Way' for all souls, beyond any religions desire to bind His role to their participants insistence on how His reality MUST be. This is especially appropriate for those who insist that THEIR reality, their beliefs ARE the correct ones and brings to mind Rumi's admonition that 'once we have arrived back home, all arguments as to the various roads there become meaningless'. Kathy's descriptions of the 'larger' view of the soul allow us to transcend our petty differences, that are so prevalent at this level of awareness and provide us an opportunity to see that we are indeed, ALL of God's children and it is totally up to US, to begin to see that 'the Light', is indeed 'Our collective and individual Light' that must be reattuned to, not via power, but via His way, the way of Love.
Next, although she doesn't explicity address same, Kathy offers some very insightful into the problems inherent in promiscious sexuality and how souls experience tremendous problems when their focus is on experiencing the 'pleasures of the flesh' and the entrappment/addiction resulting from their desires. Although it is almost taboo to even discuss the possibilities of universal laws in today's culture, Cayce's description of becoming so engrossed in the flesh, that we become lost to our true nature, that of beings of light, of souls. Instead, we risk becoming entrapped in the 'thought forms' of our own creation. Both excessive Promisciousness and homosexuality, may be seen from this perspective as an result of the devolution process, and for those who are 'enraptured' in seeking the physical pleasures, risks losing his/her soul.
Although Kathy Callahan's book does not explicitly deal with these issues, they are having increasing social and political impact today. She does point out, from Cayce's perspective, the dangers against ANY excessive sexuality, however directed. She also makes strong note of God's over-riding love for us, a love so committed that he refuses to coerce our free will, even when we have become entrapped in the earth. Instead, he sent His Son, to show us the way home.
For those who seek a 'deeper path' than offered in what is contained in much of modern scripture and the nominative modern Christian paradigm, I heartily recommend Dr. Callahan's book as a ready reference for our return. As a therapist, I have discovered that ALL problems presented by client's are ultimately spiritual. Her book describes why.
Tom Lawson, Ph.D.

The creation of life;: A cybernetic approach to evolution

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Charles Darwin and the Problem of Creation

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Charles Darwin and the Creation of a Problem
Darwin as a thinking man relates to his world

Charles Darwin and the Problem of Creation
Neal C. Gillespie
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Charles Darwin and the Creation of a Problem.......2004-02-13

Pegged around the twin themes of Foucault's epistemes and Kuhn's paradigms this cameo history places Darwin in the context of the Paley generation yielding to an age of positivism. This is a tale which is difficult to tell since the science bard chanting the mythical saga of the foundational moment seldom gets any further than epic mode in the stages of knowledge given by the Positivist Comte. Comte's stages, which people apparently took seriously, are highly misleading and don't correspond to a real picture of knowledge evolution. How speak of positivism if the result is a new myth for an age of science?
But this is a good history of Darwin's period and the naive triumph of Darwin's too limited theory, whose main effect was simply to a banishing ritual for the design argument.
That the division by episteme is oversimplified should be seen from the loss of substance in the period from Kant via Lamarck and Chambers to Darwin. The epistemic spectrum is reduced to the paltry pseudo-dialectic of the propagandists Darwin and Paley. Trying to overcome purposive explanation via natural selection was an imaginary triumph.
The attempt to judge the issue of Kuhn is virtually impossible for one immersed in such. If ever there was a Kuhnian transition followed by frozen brain syndrome it was the Darwinian Revolution (with all due respect to Bowler's Darwinian Non-Revolution). In a word the positivist methodology was inadequate for the job.
This is a good historical account in any case.

Darwin as a thinking man relates to his world.......2003-09-11

The book's purpose is straightforward: using Foucault's epistemes and Kuhn's paradigms as organizing principles(chp 1) look at the life of Charles Darwin as an example of a man between worlds: the old episteme of creationism and the new biological paradigm of positivism. Asking himself the question "why does C.Darwin spend so much time and effort rebuttalling the various arguments that the creationists present" rather than a strict presentation of his views, the author walks through the intellectual life of Darwin as the first modern biologist who left one toe in the old theological-saturated world, that of a general theist.

From pg 3 "The positivist limited scientific knowledge, which he saw as the only valid form of knowledge, to the laws of nature and to processes involving "secondary", or natural, causes exclusively. The creationist, on the other hand, saw the world and everything in it as being the result of direct or indirect divine activity. His science was inseparable from his theology. His epistemology was closely geared to a metaphysics, and in metaphysics he tended to be an "idealist". To comprehend nature fully, for a scientist of this persuasion, was to understand the workings of the mind of the Creator."

I liked the way he organizes around the epistemes/paradigms, in doing so he often presents the humanity of the scientists involved in the discussion, this makes the ideas so much more real as you realize that although the people are long dead, they are human in the conflicts and heart-break they went through to arrive at their beliefs, to write their books. Darwin especially comes across in the book as a human being, sympathetic but driven by the tenor of his times as much as he added to the pressure to switch epistemes with his thought. The consistent technique presented in the book revolved around his relationships with individuals whether through letters or reactions to books and the way his ideas and theirs fought, twisted together, or passed into oblivion depending upon the greater movement of ideological systems which emerged in the mid 19thC.

The big take home message of the book is simple enough. It was Darwin's desire to free science from the miracles that by necessity are attached to creationism. Underneath this is the idea that miracles are violations of natural law and as such elements of the capricious, the mysterious, the unpredictable that he wished to ban from science, if not as impossible then at least as unscientifically explainable. A second major theme, the topic of several chapters is the relationship of design and purpose as underlying the old creationist episteme and the consistent attempt by Darwin to eliminate this type of thinking all together from biological explanations.

Gillespie, as a historian, presents the ideas with an eye to the underlying forces that move people to certain ideas, this is akin to the "ideas were in the air" but more detailed. One push to change epistemes emerges in chpt 3 "Darwin and positive science" where he writes "the new was asking question that the old could neither frame nor answer." pg 53 This is the effect on systematic thinking of the new data, the facts that flowed into Europe with the great voyages of discovery, Darwin's on the Beagle included. To much of the old thinking stopped with the "God did it" type of explanation, the utility of the new episteme was obvious in that it allowed, even drove deeper levels of explanation. It is these levels, this complex unification of disparagent facts where big important patterns emerge, where the new paradigm shines, it works to build laws and theories that have great explanatory and utilitarian power.

On the question of design, "But in giving up Paley's simple and direct empiricism for an idealism which substituted an intuitively perceived plan behind the adaptations for the adaptations themselves, the design argument was, to the positivist, on less relevant ground scientifically. It had, by abandoning the empirical world, removed itself from the area of science and entered that of religion. When, eventually, belief in design became an act of faith in an incomprehensible divine wisdom and its ends, the idea of design, ceased to have any potential value as a scientific explanation: its assertions were unverifiable and hence useless." pg 85 The argument in biology was how to eliminate the purpose that came so naturally to discussions of living things, for it is obvious that living things move and act with a purpose, from Aristotle on in western thought, biology was literally saturated with this purposefulness. Darwin's proposed mechanism of random variation-natural selection(becomes RM-NS in 20thC) was the first fully mechanistic technique proposed to chop off the link between organisms and their adaptation to local environments as a result of God's intervention. Once this link was severed there was nothing to stop the emergence of a fully positivist mechanistic biology to replace the Aristotle-biblical amalgamate that held sway in Western thought.

I appreciated this book, a great deal of detail about how principles interact, how epistemes collide, how people work out ambiguities and intellectual paradoxes is included, especially using Darwin as an example. Access to historical information as in the details of letters passing between him and numerous thinkers with substantially different intellectual priorities, and how these conversations modified beliefs and moved people to think differently is excellent. We miss all this human touch when we read history textbooks were names never seem to be real people, this is perhaps the best personal satisfaction from this book.

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Biology and Creation: An Introduction Regarding Life and Its Origins (Creation Research Society Reader Series, No. 4)

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This book has been written in a way that easily can be understood by those without a strong scientific background. The author shows that the scientific evidence from biology and related fields clearly demands the acceptance of the creation of all living organisms by a supernatural Creator. He emphasizes the fact that scientists who hold the position of a supernatural creation do not constitute a tiny minority, but are numbered in tens of thousands. "Biology and Creation" will help answer the following questions, and more: What is life? What's alive out in space? The making of "life" in the lab - really? How about the "law of cells"? Can a creationist be a scientist? Where do evolutionists stand? Is Intelligent Design part of biology?

The creation of life: Cybernetic approach to evolution

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A. E Wilder-Smith
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