Philosophy
changed after Darwin published his book on evolution named On
the Origin of Species.
Wegener’s discovery of plate tectonics and the expanding awareness
of the size and scale of the Universe with construction of larger and
larger telescopes coincided with the 20th
century advances in biological learning and changed the way people
look at the world. Philosophy also changed while theology was
challenged. By the start of the third millennium human social
sciences and history were viewed as of decreased importance; surface
activities of bioforms on an insignificant planet in a remote part of
the galactic habitation zone of a spiral galaxy itself just a speck
of sand amidst billions of galaxies. The scale of science and its
effect upon human thinking tended to dwarf the interest in
philosophical works such as G.W.F. Hegel had developed in his tome
The
Phenomenology of Spirit
[1807].
German romanticism and its existential regard for the individual in
society shadowed the increasing epistemological theoretical drift
toward relativism and subjectivism as meaning became detached from
traditional philosophical and theological attachment because of the
power of evolution and cosmology developing together as a great
empirical truth.
Philosophers and
historians continued to work of course, even as they kept one eye
upward toward the Hubble image captures of 12 to 13 billion year old
starlight from what was considered to be near the beginning of the
Universe give or take a half a billion years. Philosophers such as
C.S. Pierce developed semiotic works about symbols. Frege and other
advanced symbolic logic onward from Aristotle’s classical along
with the mathematical of Leibniz and advance of progress of logic.
The Vienna Circle of philosophers led the way with others such as
Wittgenstein in the field of the philosophy of logic and its
intersection with the meaning of language, the epistemology of
cognition and eventually analytic philosophy. W.V.O Quine not only
developed analytic philosophy investigating words and their meaning
as Platonic essents or forms with real or nominal values, he
investigated the relationship of words to objects, from which one may
readily consider the nature of objects for-themselves as members
cohering within a continuum of quantum field phenomena; solid state
physics. Quantum physics parallel the rise of Darwinist evolution
ideas in cosmology and biology and reinforced the tendency of many to
regard life as virtually phenomenal to an extent found in Buddhism.
The appearance of so
many strong new influences on human thought of a circumspective,
philosophical kind was a challenge to philosophers to respond to the
new material with new ideas. Some philosophers became echoes of the
Darwinian science as philosophers of science. Some theologians choose
to ignore the field entirely and focus just upon scripture, and that
was reasonable enough except as it rendered them unable to consider
how the Bible relates to the new understanding of the empirical world
or to provide meaningful Christian apologetics regarding it.
Darwinian evolution
philosophy in the world became eventually a popular with such
strength that it conquered political leadership in Europe and in much
of the entertainment and broadcast media spanning the globe. Business
found it generally acceptable as it enabled fortune 500 leaders to
dismiss moral concerns more readily and better put on the blinders of
business to externalities and to focus on profits wheresoever that
leads.
The
rise of abstract expressionism in the arts from impressionism to
cubism and beyond reflected the advance of epistemological and
linguistic relativism and subjectivism. Paradoxically people could
look at the images of the vast Universe and even consider it as part
of a great Multiverse and find it meaningless with just their own
experience of it as meaningful, at least for-themselves. Subjectivism
and relativism was reflected in reductionism in every field even unto
the quantum level, and time and being as mass were phenomenal events
perceived locally without any sort of transcendent value of such a
nature that similar events could be occurring in an infinite number
of Universes. Philosophers too seemed to have been taken up in some
instances with the Darwinian power of evolution finding little enough
in humanity except as it might evolve too, and tragically losing the
capacity to keep a concept of God as a Supreme being of power and
capacity larger than a Multiverse. Darwinism as universal evolution
seemed to have no place for the Bible in it. And that is where this
book of mine is concerned. I take another opinion about it. God
probably can create a Multiverse like a zillion angels as it were, on
the head of a pin.
With the publication of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species in 1859 Britain set out upon the long downward course of evolution of Christianity. Christianity declined first amidst Protestants and Non-Conformists only later followed by Catholics who did rather well after the collapse of Protestant Christianity. Still, as many as 48% of Britishers claim to be Christians. Their leadership however is generally faithless and has one of the largest number of atheists in Europe. Part of the reason that the more educated classes take up Darwin's evolution text as their new gospel is of course the obvious desire to avoid moral concerns about concentrating wealth and power. In effect they have signed off on Marx's judgement that religion is the opiate of the masses, although in the U.S.A. presently real opiates are of epidemic scale. There is an historical lag between deep philosophical examination of issues regarding religion in the masses that cannot be concerned with such affairs. They tend to look toward their leaders for good opinion to follow. If the leaders are rather airheads as they often are (General Hindenberg of Germany bragged that he had never read a book in his life), and cannot learn good opinion, then the people as well may be badly informed. In the United States Democrat party atheist militancy has saturated politics such that they too have given up Christian faith to a large extent as well as the political paradigm of the founders in preference for evolution. It is not that Darwinian evolution is necessarily false or that Christians must claim it is so. Instead the problem is that evolution is just one hypothetical way of considering ontology and a Universe that may be a Multiverse. Evolution theory does not require that Christianity be falsified, it is the case the unphilosophically minded people with a hatred of Christianity wish it to be the case that Christianity and God must be wrong ideas if evolution is to be true. One might compare Evolution theory to a computer operating system and people as bits of data within it that have discovered the architectural principles of the operating system. Some wish that to mean that no other operating system could exist or be dual booted within a computer. Yet it may be that the operating system exists within a greater operating system itself, or that the operating system functions as a holographical and optical system made of photons that haven't anything at all to do with computer hardware-perhaps they are unintended beams of light cast on the shadow f a cave that work logically because of nothing more than a great coincidence in nature, or maybe some clever kid made hand signals in front of a laser beam that generated the effect of an operating system...etc God transcends anything in physics in a way larger than the way the Higgs field is prior to and transcends any particle-waves within it comprising the solid-state Universe. People in fact misunderstand what time is commonly; it is an emergent characteristic of the phase changes of particle-waves within the Higgs field and is local. God may have created the Universe in seven seconds fully evolved, much less seven days or 13.2 billion years. The Universe could be said to have been created in under a second with an explosion of energy followed by an inflation, yet no one really knows that for sure nor what caused it. There are a zillion theoretical courses and those may nicely fit within the Chinese puzzle box criteria of greater containing causes. It is fun and profitable to be authoritative yet being accurate is also important. There are many ways to interpret the Bible too that don't run into obvious Biblical contradictions. Even John 5:39-47 has a parable from Jesus that mentions hell, yet today there are many Christian leaders in denial of that, of of course they are also in denial about the need to reform to become a priesthood of believers. King James version-
"19There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: 20And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, 21And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. 22And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; 23And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. 24And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. 25But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. 26And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence. 27Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house: 28For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.29Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them. 30And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. 31And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead."
Because theologians are specialized they tend to lag far behind development of philosophical investigations examining cosmology and scripture. Cosmological-Biblical hermeneutic requires substantial learning that would not be professionally supported, and atheists tend to discard any way of thinking that would determine that Christianity is not necessarily in conflict with cosmology and evolution.
Chess
games are played with various time formats. Classical chess games of
more than 90 minutes, rapid chess games (of 20 minutes) and blitz
chess (of five minutes) are the major categories of competition for
world titles. This year the world rapid chess championship was won by
the top active elder pro chess player Vishwanathan Anand of India.
Chess on-line is a
rapidly expanding recreational activity. Lichess, Chess.com, Chess24
and Chesstempo and Chess All-Stars are a few of the web sites with
free chess game playing.
Some of the younger
pro chess players have received professional chess instruction from a
very early age-even three years old, and parents have paid as much as
$25,000 a year for chess instruction for their progeny hoping that
they will become top professional chess players.
Skeptics may say that
pro chess is a meaningless recreational activity contributing nothing
more than pro tic tac toe of benefit to benefit humanity; I won’t
argue the point. It isn’t farming yet it is a good mind activity
for the elderly far better than sitting in a darkened room watching
television.
Yet
chess as an Internet on-line activity has a darker side of age and
sex discrimination trash talking. Chess playing does not compel one
to get off-board life experience or maturity. One can be a chess punk
with a bad attitude. Some use chess like trolls to try to victimize
opponents with predatory names and comments. The best remedy is to
beat them unemotionally and ignore the whimpering comments of
perverse losers.
The youth dominated
sport on-line is simply a factor of the recent proliferation of the
Internet world wide. Present youth have been able to play on-line
chess games for nearly 20 years and the opportunities for free chess
learning have increased too, with innumerable videos and pgn game
libraries enabling players to watch chess games of openings and
matches of the past five-hundred years. There is a lot of trash
talking on on-line chess games, and because the present generation
has had so much computer assisted learning they have tended to
believe that chess like physics is an activity where the very young
are best. Vishy Anand as world rapid champion since
28 December has
sort of upset that notion.
One of the primary
reasons for the advantage of younger chess players at the highest
level is that there are more of them and they have all studied the
games of the champion in detail while the champion hasn’t been able
to study the games of so many younger players in equal detail. It is
something like a pyramid where one studies the people above that are
fewer in number as one rises, while the guy or gal on top has to
study the games of all of those rising, and that is quite a different
challenge.
Vishy Anand was the
world classical champion follow Garry Kasparov's retirement. Kasparov
was best at all three major time controls of chess and when he seemed
to be slipping, quit. Anand had been around a very long time before
he got his moment to become world classical champion and took it with
a special selection match in Rio that determined the vacated world
championship title holder. Though he only defended the title a couple
of times he never stopped playing after losing the title.
Anand is a very tough
player that deserved the title as much as Tigran Petrosian or another
of the Soviet chess champs that held the title for just a short time.
Not every player is a Kasparov, Karpov, Steinitz, Lasker etc that
were at the top for a very long time. After losing the title to
Magnus Carlsen the present aging classical chess champ, Anand had the
will to win the candidates tournament and play a rematch with
Carlsen. Winning the candidates tournament is no easy feat. The
former world number two player Levon Aronian who is one of the
highest rated chess players in history tried five times and failed.
Anand gets credit for going back to win the candidates tourney.
After playing and
losing twice to Carlson in the world classical championship Anand may
have decided not to waste time trying again. He did not make the
2018 candidates tournament field. Instead he may have prepared for
the rapid chess competition and ended up being World Champion. That
is remarkable considering his age and shows his determination and
strategy for to winning.
Occasionally people
wish that Garry Kasparov would return to the chess arena as he did in
2017 briefly in a match in St. Louis. If Kasparov were to focus on
just one chess time control such as rapid or blitz and entered
numerous competitions he probably would be a contender for a world
title in his 50s. If narrowly focused apparently one can continue
winning chess to old age if one has the desire to do so.
I
didn’t play a
first complete
chess game until age 57 and made fair progress at blitz chess
discovering that the major problem is just Internet speed and time
delays that can create quite a disadvantage. My blitz high score of
1430 was hit a couple of years ago in a public library in Oklahoma
that had good Internet speed. Riding a bike around the nation looking
for work and playing on-line chess sometimes isn’t the quickest way
to advance yet blitz chess is something like ping pong with complex
vector spaces and trajectories with 16 balls instead of just one.
It’s a good way to relax and to exercise the mind, off-road.
Mcshane vs Anand rd 7 world rapid chess championship 27 Dec 2017
The
city of Anchorage has itself experienced the Jim Crowe system of
toilet segregation for some time. Men and women are sexually
segregated, perhaps to engender some sort of supremacist and
inferioricist social control. Frankly, toilets are agents of social
conditioning.
American potty
training for the moral equivalent of racial segregation based on
gender begins very early. Ending sexually segregated toilets can
evolve, just as tax rates may be evolved to higher and lower levels
by the Congress who will act according to the desire of the rich.
In
some nations men and women don’t have segregated toilets with
special mens only and womens only eliminators. People that aren’t
lucky enough to have water-closet toilets may just poop in a trench
or piss on a wall even during torrential ranges or desert storms.
They have not had the social opportunity to evolve specially gender
segregated human waste elimination facilities.
Americans can of
course liberate their public bowel and political movements by ending
segregated toilets. That may require some great amount of
architectural design and creativity. Maybe all people could use
sit-down toilettes or stand-up toilets as they prefer. Already women
have been given the opportunity to purchase stand-up appliances that
enable them to urinate without squatting or sitting down. Individual
stand-up urinals could have screens so workmen would not need to have
their appliance shaped like a penis bigger than those of males
stand-ups.
Individual entrances
and exits to the waste removal staging area where full-bladdered
people strutting and fretting their hours without relief or
challenged to liberate their solid waste urgently could replace the
girl’s club or boys club atmosphere that trans-gender people want
to be able to eliminate at will on either side they choose.
Innovating architecture and waste removal design meets resistance
from those segregationists that want women to feel inferior about not
hanging with the guys segregated in female-only relief facilities.
Advertisers running ads deprecatory to women in men-only toilet clubs
may resist too simply because of tradition and profit margin.
Architects and waste removal engineers may experience the redesign of
toilets of mind-boggling complexity yet change may slowly occur with
constructive engagement of new facilities that let men and women sit
equally on microwave or incinerate waterless toilets as they choose
to stand up or sit down as the case may be.
For President Trump
to make progress toward making American energy great again he shall
want to establish solar power production across the land so far as to
enable most buildings to go off the grid of global collectivist
corporatism that Americans pay rent to for life. Solar power and free
electrons from the star of God’s creative brilliance is the way to
outlast cycles of oil price and supply swings. .
The President has not
been a leader in advancing solar power to the roofs and exterior
walls of the nation’s buildings where it should be a top energy
producer, in daylight hours, for much of the land. Electricity
produced on the spot from solar photons hasn’t got a down side, and
it would save a fortune on expensive copper wiring used in so many
structures as levels could produce abundant energy for l.e.d.
lighting and office machines. The President knows construction and
buildings and could move the nation to the front of production of
independent energy from solar and fuel cell electron production
on-site.
Though Sect. Of
Energy Pruitt lowered the bar recently on fuel mileage requirements
because it was too high for aged oil policies desired by Eco-yippees,
solar energy and electric cars including electrical power lines
embedded in concrete Interstate highways for in-line recharging,
could have brought the nation to a position of even less reliance on
foreign sources of oil.
For
the nation to be great in producing more energy cleanly than it ever
has before, the production and installation of solar cells must be
synergized with the transition to electric powered cars and I suppose
hydrogen too (if enough pressure can be put on water to make
something of a metallic diamond out of it. Actually I have no idea
about how hydrogen metal is made, yet I wonder what happens when one
puts water under 10,000 p.s.i. of pressure (I suppose scientists
already know the answer to that)). America cannot be great again if
it just follows OPEC economics and relies on ancient transport
theories more than a century old as if the nation were a museum etc.
The President has
chosen to give the American solar panel industry some help by putting
a tariff on cheap foreign imports yet that doesn’t go nearly far
enough to advance the nation into off-grid energy independence
leadership in sustainable clean energy production.
When Facebook
ultra—honcho Mark Zuckerberg allowed Oxbridge Analytica to exploit
user data with the betrayal of human trust being revealed only with
congressional probes into alien influences on American elections a
red line in the Rubicon was crossed letting commercial, global
corporate powers obtain information about Americans that they
shouldn’t have.
Americans have gone
to great length to conceal the facts about themselves from the public
on Zuckerberg’s Facenook. Taking the lead of the Obama
administration in keeping American medical data away from corporate
health and insurance providers with connections to the Internet and
even the Kremlin via back channels of oligarch investments in
American corporations, congress has made sure thus far that no
information about Americans such as property ownership, credit rating
and so forth is ever published. If one lives in Miami Florida and
wants to find out how much credit a business in Alaska qualifies for
one must go and take a look at a library reference book, and that
keeps data away from the prying fingers of Euros and Chinese seeking
to take over weak, vulnerable business prey in the U.S.A.
In
an old American political tradition from the heartland, the Cohokian
civilization's new political rulers executed the prior leader and
family and probably those of any rivals in a beautiful ceremony with
mass decorative clubbing and mass burials right alongside the fine
clay spear-chucking courts in the national square of the great
pyramid. While the United States has lost track of many venerable
political traditions including independence regarding foreign trade
agreements, it hasn’t previously gone so far as to allow a
President to have the office of his personal lawyer raided and sacked
by a special investigator trying to show globalists that the
nationalist-leaning President is really in the bag like the usually
banal and evil faceless bureaucrats occupying the job. Special
investigator concerned I n executing his probe to find the
President’s hidden Russian connections probably will not choose to
raid Chairman Zuckerberg’s personal lawyer's office to find his
hidden Russian connections to so many Russian advertisers on
Facial-book and those of the heartland are glad for that.
The power of
corporatism to pursue profits must never be impinged. As public
capital of forests and fish are overused and reduced in quantity they
actually become more valuable as financial capital when transferred
to private capital concentrations.
As
U.S. public capital is degraded and as the King salmon of the North
pacific are eliminated gradually, while some kind of 7-year
moratorium of King salmon fishing should be agreed on and defended by
Russia, Canada and the U.S.A. to let the fish recover to 1880 levels
for old times sake before the oceans become to acidic and warm to
allow any salmonids to live at all it is good to know that private
capital—an abstract item instead of a natural ecological
item-increases in number even though concentrated in the accounts of
fewer and fewer souls.
Very slick operators
in politics sometimes unite with media syndicates to control public
encounters with data. Broadcast media are a global organized criminal
network in some respects, though it depends on what the meaning and
enforcement of criminal is I would venture. Plainly though every
local network radio station is not really a local entity so much as a
surveillance and control tool for globalists. It is shocking to learn
that Facebook too may in some way serve the rich and hand off big
data to bigger data miners and processors that use everything one
posts against one as if it were a hall of lawyers mirrored
recursively with real and unreal doors of real and fake data hiding
hidden connections to Russians and dimensions unknown to anyone
besides Wall Street’s quantitative trading computers in hidden dark
pools deeply underground wear the hidden web is like water flowing in
the melon bolsa underneath the Tex-Mex and New Mexican borders
without congressional oversight.
In
the Strawberry
Fields
code room thousands of tiny mirrors mechanically align and reflect
data given particular time coordinates to move and concatenate fine
portions of data that senselessly form a complete message if the
right alignments are ordered. Nothing real ever exists of the content
than thousands of tiny pieces redistributed to shiny, gossamer image
reflecting surfaces that never reappear without the most felicitous
of directions from the Grand designer. Every data entered forms a
meaningful portion of an infinite number of meaningful illusory
messages of which just one is intentionally true and readable just by
the special Russian hacker the Grand designer intended to allow into
the most secure of legal facilities. It is unfortunate however that
no real message or record ever did exist and that the mechanical
aspects of the machine were no more than analogues for hidden data
structures and methods potentially useful to in the book of changes.
Capitalism unchecked evolves to monopoly. Capital is abstract value and competition for capital concentrates capital. Sympathetic wealthy corporatists desire power over government and a symbiotic government-capitalist relationship develops. Government passes laws in favor or concentrated wealth, unfettered capitalism and corporatism develops replacing democracy.
Corporatism as a global power association of the most wealthy plutocrats finds sycophantic government proxy rulers in any nation and form of government. Even Communist elites will find symbiotic stake holding in global corporate power.
Capitalism does not stop with global corporatism though. Corporatism is just another phase of the life cycle of capitalism on the way toward global monopoly.
Capitalism is not the same as free enterprise. Free enterprise requires capital for production, yet democracy can cap the concentration of wealth or capital produced with free enterprise and shifting some privately generated capital to public capital such as infrastructure and ecosphere reconstruction where it comprise a percent of all public capital including natural wilderness and water resources. Ecosphericly sympatico business and eco-zoning paradigmata may be promulgated.
Capitalism that is private seeks to redistribute public capital to private capital until no public capital exists or if tolerated comprises less than 1% of national capital.
Private capital in competition with private citizens too seeks to concentrate private capital in the most few who will in turn fight to the death to control the capital of all rivals until just one winner exists-as in the game of monopoly perhaps.
Private capital has no interest in externalities such as the environment that cannot turn a profit or bring in abstract capital. In fact because scarce resources are more valuable as capital sometimes, capitalist can profit even if global warming and mass extinction reduce all life on earth to just a few people who will pay great sums for oxygen to breathe or rare species to eat. Some day a trillionaire might sign over his half of the planet Earth for the chance to eat the last grass-fed cow.
Free enterprise and capitalism directed with enlightened democratic governments concerned with public well-being are the better utilization of world resources to produce inventions from more creative minds of benefit to humanity. Guaranteed minimum income of $6000 annually for instance, could keep seven young minority men from the desperation that causes them to commit crimes sometimes for a revenue stream, for the cost of sending just one young man to jail at an annual cost of $40,000. Free public education through college and a guaranteed minimum income along with the reduction of patent exclusivity to three years with just 10% royalties for patent holders thereafter would let every citizen have some confidence that they can find a way to use their creative mind productively during their lifetime and not be bogged down in repressive or inescapably oppressive economic-social currents.
With the environment being an externality to capitalists it is necessary to cap the percent of national income any individual pay own if public sector conservation and rehabilitation measures are to be effective. Presently conservationists may save a forest or wilderness reserve for a decade with substantial political work, yet that effort may be undone in just one session of Congress allowing exploitation or harvesting of that conserved natural wealth. Fundamentally conservation is a losing ecological gamble with the odds favoring ecosphere destruction. The way to give the edge to conservation is to shift national capital ratios as well as private capital distribution such that habitat conservation and rehabilitation are favored and democracy with free enterprise for all citizens pragmatically possible without the existence of the most extreme versions of capitalism leading to monopoly.
It may be too late though. Capitalism is blind to externalities, apparently as is the public.
After the fall of
modern human morality rising with dissemination of Charles Darwin’s
opus ‘On the Origin of Species’ a plethora of ideas and
interpretations about the form and meaning of evolution theory grew
amidst the literati and government leaders that flowered like a
thousand forms of ragweed as well as sober scientific data. Many came
to view evolution as an inevitable progressive ascent of mankind. The
fact of natural history-an earlier name for evolution history of life
on Earth- that for every continuing biological line there probably
were countless others that went extinct, generally did not trouble
humanity that viewed the future with rose-colored glasses.
Especially
for those that felt oppressed by traditional Christian morality (that
was in itself usually misunderstood and already instead conformed to
model certain forms of secular social organization rather than that
of a priesthood of believers) evolution became a secular license to
abandon all morality while developing the idea that any sort of
previously immoral behavior leads to progress as a higher state is
evolved. That human behavior too can readily be extinctive behavior
leading to the extirpation of individuals or even the entire race
didn’t enter into the
evolution-as-amoral-goodness-leading-to-progress way of thought.
One might wonder
about evolution in the natural history of the Universe or Multiverse
and ask what role life has in it? Every physical process since the
start of the Universe has occurred inevitably as a result of prior
physical states of mass and energy. There were no accidents nor
randomization about the phase changes in the Universe that occurred
throughout it from the first instant of existence. A unified physical
force presumably part of a larger unified force somehow was released
into the void. It broke down into the Universe-spanning forces of
nature in existence today allowing numerous smaller particles and
wave forms to exist.
Gravity aggregated
much of the mass together to form stars, elements and planets, at
some point more complexity or breaking down of the initial somewhat
monopolar unified field/force let life exist. Life is a stage in the
way of the natural history of the Universe that inevitably unfolds;
yet one wonders what its role is and what phase change follows.
Jesus Christ said
that unless a seed is buried in cannot grow. He may have been
speaking about his own life and resurrection. It is possible that he
was also speaking about the role of life in the evolutionary
Universe. The teleology of life may be to give rise to sentience and
spirit reborn with faith unto a higher stage of progress.
Evolution of life in
a Universe that does not give rise to spirit would be in a conundrum
of paradox. Though it can produce complexity in phase with the
general physical direction of the breakdown of the initial unified
force, the complexity endangers its existence and may be
self-negating.
Life on Earth today
is in what natural historians call the Anthropocene Era (of mass
extinction). Human beings are bringing perhaps the largest mass
extinction of species on Earth to fruition. If biological diversity
that enables a variety of forms to exist that may allow some or even
one species to adapt to new environmental challenges is eliminated by
human beings, life’s chances of surviving environmental challenges
are much reduced. In fact, if humanity is the sole large mammal that
remains on Earth eventually and humanity must successfully adapt to
environmental change and cannot, then the last mammal will perish
too.
It
may have been the evolutionary biologist Jay Gould who wrote that the
most successful life form on Earth is the simplest and most numerous-
one that can survive nearly any environmental change. If I remember
correctly it was simple prokaryotic, multi-cellular life form. The
complexity of larger organisms through evolution make them more
vulnerable to extinction. Present human activities on the planet
exemplify the problem.
The Lord Jesus Christ
replied when asked once when he would return for his third coming
(His resurrection and appearance to his disciples was the second
coming of Christ) that it would be when the Age of the Gentiles was
fulfilled. The time of the fullness of human life on the Earth could
be taken to mean several things including the time it is most
populous on Earth with no prospects left for survival because of
over-population, or it could mean when humanity has served its
purpose of birthing souls destined for eternal life through salvation
through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. It is difficult to know
exactly what he meant when there are several alternate and equally
valid meanings that might be given to interpretation.
Evolution theory
brought many to simply abandon theological interest and faith in God.
That is rash as is the assumption that evolution is inconsistent with
Biblical creation; it isn’t at all an a wrote and that topic in a
couple of books. One is free to download named God, Cosmology and
Nothingness. What is rash is overlooking the meaning and structure of
evolution as it pertains to human life and its role in existence. In
no way does evolution entail the necessity of human progress toward a
secular Valhalla of immorality and hedonistic fulfillment. Humanity
should not abandon rational thought about finding the best ways to
adapt to existence on Earth given the phenomena of biological life
and limited natural resources. Self-determining philosophical failure
or neglect to comprehend the multifarious and complex mechanisms of
evolution and its place in natural history would tend to doom the
prospects for human life on Earth rather than support them.
If
humanity needs to adapt free enterprise creative and the distribution
of private and public capital to perpetuate human life in an optimal
way then it must. If halting environmental loss of bio-diversity and
habitat is necessary then humanity cannot afford to wait until it is
lost to respond to the challenge. There are innumerable ways to fail
along the lines of evolution rather than a few. In fact humanity
cannot theoretically determine its own place in natural history
comprehensively any more than one can create a set of all sets
including itself per Kurt Godel’s incompleteness theorems. The
hubris of belief that one can entirely determine human species
destiny as a self-reinforcing philosophy of greed is not reasonable
to keep. However humanity may be unable to meet the ecospheric
challenges of adapting its social and economic needs to the natural
and social realties it experiences these days. Leadership is lacking
thanks to the profusion of bad eschatology and the godless drift of
the Democrat party under the amoral philosophy of evolution.
Democrats acquiesced with devolution to membership in business-owned
union sycophancy under corporatist leadership.
The
shift of private capital into the control of a tiny minority is
itself destructive as is the destruction of secure national
boundaries and properties of rights under the aegis of godless
corporatism and miscellaneous social collectives. He challenges of
comprehending evolution and Christianity simultaneously are great for
a world population increasing too quickly toward ecospheric
breakdown. That too may be the very next phase though it seems
insufficient for the purpose of life in a theology of natural
history.
There are many
directions for humanity and political economy to take along the
evolutionary line that are wrong. Maybe there are fewer that are
right or that lead to survival. It is difficult to know prospectively
rather than retrospectively what economic and political lines would
work effectively and support human happiness too given the
challenging economic, environmental and socio-political challenges
for avoiding mass extinction of all mammalian life on Earth.
Evolution is a backward looking science. Its use as a forward-looking
political ideology isn’t well-suited.
As
a phase of matter, evolution has no meaning beyond whatever
teleological values humanity may infer that God provides for it.
For-itself as an empirical idea evolution is entirely meaningless. It
is a state akin to the oriental concept of joss such that whatever
is, is.
Transhumanist
theorists may exploit some Darwinian ideas of progress and of
directing evolution yet directed evolution by humanity hasn’t any
right direction. A thousand different designs could be said to be
equally right or wrong even though they are in complete conflict as
anti-thesis to one another. The complete complex of compresent
anti-thesis of evolution in-itself is an evolutionary state of
affairs as meaningless as any of the individual directions being
developed, and each have reciprocals interacting with and evolving in
relation to each directed evolutionary vector of human design.
Fundamentally it is better to use the word evolution with less
liberality than it is presently applied to virtually any desire to
change social structures where the implication is that it advances
biological Darwinian progress to a higher state. People may entirely
evolve beyond an ideal state or into a deleterious and extinctive
state as readily as moving toward a superior position viewed of
course, subjectively. It is better simply to reason with classical
virtue and philosophy toward good political and economic affairs
respective of God and the concept of divine grace, providence and
trust that honest work and due diligence are the better efforts even
while respecting individual rights of others as much as mackerel
respective the space of other mackerel schooling in the sea.
Philosophy
is a way of developing new ideas. There are perennial questions
philosophers and others have asked and continue to ask such as what
the meaning of life is. Some of those questions have been answered
and some may never be answered. Philosophy is a way of developing
questions and answers for challenges that may not already exist.
Often the data is abstract yet one may also consider purely empirical
issues.
An
example could be in fisheries management. One of America’s largest
rivers, the Stikine of S.E. Alaska, had so few king salmon returning
this year (in 2018) (to spawn) that all fishing was closed. The
pitifully low number of 740 fish to repopulate a river that formerly
had hundreds of thousands or millions could not be reached.
Fishermen, politicians and others can’t manage the fishery well at
all. A philosopher might suggest practical ways to restore the
fishery such as working with Russia and Canada to halt all fishing
for king salmon across the North pacific, Alaska, Canada and Siberia
for seven years to let the fishery recover and limiting the annual
harvest after restoration. Though it is a realistic plan politically
it is unfeasible. A philosopher might further inquire into the
reasons why.
Philosophers
may classify all knowledge into fields that seem appropriate places
to file the data. The history of ideas has many divisions.
Philosophical inquiries perhaps occupy just a fraction of those.
Ways
of thinking about ideas and the objects that are represented in ideas
about objects are a basis for reviewing the nature of ideas human
beings have about objects, occupational activities and knowledge
built up in technical work. Over time technical work can build up
quite a lot of material. Non-philosophical writers may express the
knowledge of technical fields in books or tracts.
Technical writings
describing occupations and scientific data and methods can be
voluminous. Fields such as metallurgy and auto mechanics sit beside
astronomy and ocean diving, botany and anatomy. In times past
philosophers among other examined many of those technical works and
brought concepts from them together to form synthetic and new
interdisciplinary ideas.
That brings me to the
essence of this essay on what philosophy is. That is it is more than
simple technical writings in the field of philosophy known mostly to
historians of philosophy and some academic philosophers pursuing
those technical fields such as ethics and logic. Philosophy is also
an activity that examines data from several disciplines to construct
new ideas. It is a process quite like one method of making
inventions. The inventor researches and studies up a lot of
scientific and technical material and lets his mind and subconscious
combine the ideas to form something new. A philosopher can research
several academic disciplines such as theology, philosophy and
cosmology and write about ideas that are newly combined at least for
the philosopher and comprise a synthetic, non-methodical approach to
writing an essay or developing a different perspective with a unique
or nearly unique point of view.
In
the United States occupational speculation does not permit much time
for interdisciplinary research. Even academic people tend to need to
remain within their field of specialization. An historian for
instance would need to find an elaborate explanation for why he or
she spent most of their time studying insects instead of Western
Civilization if that was their area of educational responsibility.
Philosophers shouldn’t have any problem like that.
In
fact philosophers might consider the role of insects on various
stages of western civilization or the way music corrupted it, if it
did, when it became fashionable among aristocrats. Philosophers might
combine history with anthropology and sociology to ask if Aristotle’s
politics was anything besides meaningless speculation of no interest
to ordinary people or even royals for nearly 2000 years after he
wrote about the cycles from democracy to tyranny.
Philosophy can be
simply the construction of interdisciplinary essays about virtually
anything drawing from material that already exists within field
specialization to construct or invent something new. In doing so they
may find more things true.
