The Transparent Becoming of World and Quantum Field Brain Dynamics – an initial look at the work of Gordon G. Globus

The ontology of metaphysics is so embedded in the way we think, so coiled within the very language that we must use, so protected, that we cannot get at it by a frontal approach. It is necessary to dwell in an author’s work to grasp the underlying ontological principles at work. In the between-two of…

A Short History of the Science vs Religion Debate

The ‘Conflict Model’   The first work on the history of science and religion that utilized what came to be known as the ‘conflict model’ was written by an early American photographer, John William Draper, who had been invited to write a polemic for Popular Science magazine criticizing Roman Catholic doctrines. The conflict model is…

Neo-Darwinism as an Inherently Anti-Evolutionary Stance

It’s a truism that the more alike people, groups, or views are, the more vehemently they are likely to argue about the differences. Although, like most truisms, it’s not always actually true, as a generalization it does more often fit that its inverse. The supposed argument between ‘science’ and ‘religion’ is one of those situations.…

The Location of the Self-Contradiction of Determinism

Determinism, as it is found for instance in Dennett’s work, has a significant double advantage over the idealism it critiques. The first is that it doesn’t posit a reality in itself that is somehow ‘above’ or ‘beyond’ appearances; the second is that it doesn’t posit the observer as somehow ‘detached’ or ‘outside’ reality. Insofar as…

The Neo-Darwinist Myth of Darwin as an Anti-Teleologist

The Myth of Darwin as an Anti-Teleologist   Asa Gray noted “…Darwin’s great service to Natural Science in bringing back to it Teleology: so that instead of Morphology versus Teleology, we shall have Morphology wedded to Teleol- ogy” (Gray 1963). Darwin quickly responded: “What you say about Teleology pleases me especially and I do not…

Natural History as Evolutionary

        Nature as Historical, and Evolutionary           The Hyper-Focus on Evolution in Defending Modern Science   Today the theory of evolution, which is primarily viewed as a matter of understanding the mechanics of evolution, since outside those with either a childish view of reality or a political agenda…