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Topic: John A. Davison: An Evolutionary Manifesto: A New Hypothesis For Organic Change
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Martin
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posted 04. December 2006 07:54
I hit on intersting article dealing also with Nomogenesis. It seems that linguistic neo-gramarian school and anti-darwinism represented by Leo Berg was tightly interconnected and influenced each-other great deal.
"The impact of Czech and Russian biology on the linguistic thought of the Prague Linguistic Circle":
http://www2.unil.ch/slav/ling/recherche/biblio/99Impact.html
I put it here because evolution of human languages is as great mystery as biological evolution.
French academy forbade treatises dealing on origin of languages at the end of 19 century.
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John A. Davison
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posted 04. December 2006 12:40
Thank you Martin.
Leo Berg was the greatest Russian biologist of his generation and in my opinion the most insightful evolutionist of all time. He was Dobzhansky's mentor in Russia and I am convinced that if Dobzhansky had remained in Russia with Berg, Darwinism would have died long before now. Dobzhansky actually turned on his own Professor, an act for which I for one will never forgive him. I exposed the whole thing on my blog. If you want proof for what I just claimed, read the Foreword to the paper back edition of Nomogenesis and draw your own conclusions.
Pierre Grasse was to French biology what Berg was to Russia biology. Both had encyclopedic knowledge and both saw through the Darwinian farce with great clarity. The way they have been neglected by sedentary armchair blowhards like Mayr, Gould, Provine and Dawkins constitutes a scandal unprecedented in the history of science.
"Ask not for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for Darwinian mysticism."
after "For whom the bell tolls" by Ernest Hemingway
I love it so!
"A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable."
John A. Davison
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Martin
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posted 04. December 2006 13:59
I found these interesting (and antidarwinian) words about mimicry written by prominent artist and scientist Nabokov.
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The mysteries of mimicry had a special attraction for me. Its phenomena showed an artistic perfection usually associated with man-wrought things. Consider the imitation of oozing poison by bubblelike macules on a wing (complete with pseudo-refraction) or by glossy yellow knobs on a chrysalis ("Don't eat me – I have already been squashed, sampled and rejected"). Consider the tricks of an acrobatic caterpillar (of the Lobster Moth) which in infancy looks like bird's dung, but after moulting develops scrabbly hymenopteroid appendages and baroque characteristics, allowing the extraordinary fellow to play two parts at once … that of a writhing larva and that of a big ant seemingly harrowing it. When a certain moth resembles a certain wasp in shape and color, it also walks and moves its antennae in a waspish, unmothlike manner. When a butterfly has to look like a leaf, not only are all the details of a leaf beautifully rendered but markings mimicking grub-bored holes are generously thrown in. "Natural selection," in the Darwinian sense, could not explain the miraculous coincidence of imitative aspect and imitative behavior, nor could one appeal to the theory of "the struggle for life" when a protective device was carried to a point of mimetic subtlety, exuberance, and luxury far in excess of a predator's power of appreciation. I discovered in nature the non-utilitarian delights that I sought in art. Both were a form of magic, both were a game of intricate enchantment and deception. (Nabokov's Butterflies 85-86)
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posted 04. December 2006 14:49
Martin
In one of my lighter and unpublished moments, I suggested that music may also have been "prescribed" and only discovered. I am very confident that is true for mathematics and music and mathematics are closely related. Perhaps that is true of the languages as well. No one knows for certain. That is for sure. I doubt if Leo Berg would deny such a possibility. I regard Berg as the first of the Intelligent Design proponents. He was a great scientist and my unabashed hero. I say a pox on those that have neglected him.
"Hypotheses have to be reasonable - facts don't."
anonymous
That is the primary problem with Darwinism. It is much too reasonable to be right!
"A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable."
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Martin
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posted 04. December 2006 16:11
John,
I am dead-beat from the "discussion" on the antievolution.org. They only denigrate you - and me too of course. I see there only conceit and nothing interesting. Here in brainstorm or on EvC there are sometimes interesting discussions. I suppose quitting the stall "After the bar closes" soon.
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John A. Davison
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posted 04. December 2006 19:09
Don't quit them Martin. Force them to ban you if they must. That is the best proof of their total lack of character and their intellectual bankruptcy. They are nothing but nasty mouthed gossipers and a disgrace to decent dialogue.
I love it so!
Best regards,
John
"A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable."
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DaveScot
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posted 05. December 2006 06:15
Martin
I was reading the ATBC forum where you've been writing and just wanted to say your english is perfectly understandable. America is a land of immigrants and many people in the U.S. speak english with dialect from their native language. Most people, including myself, find it charming. Keep in mind that many of the ATBC participants are limeys who turn up their patrician noses at anyone who doesn't speak the King's English. You shrugged them off most admirably. GFY (Good For You).
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John A. Davison
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posted 05. December 2006 07:37
Martin
Please come and join with me at
alanfox.blogspot.com/
Alan Fox has dedicated a whole thread to me at his blog. I could sure use some help there. I think many others, especially David Springer (DaveScot), might find that thread of great interest as well. It presents my position with respect to both sides of the ideological fence with the utmost clarity. I thank Alan Fox for granting me that opportunity.
"A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable."
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posted 05. December 2006 17:05
Thank you Martin for your comments at Alan Fox's blog. Apparently my stay there was short as I am already unable to post a comment. Somehow that doesn't surprise me. Ideologues, wherever you find them, are like that. I hope others will witness these demonstrations of the insecurity exhibited by all parties in the mindless debate concerning an event which has never been witnessed, namely, the production of a new kind of organism. The internet is crawling with blogs and forums dominated by blind ideology and unprincipled, unethical and above all, cowardly behavior. It is very revealing.
"A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable."
John A. Davison
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posted 06. December 2006 05:17
Alan Fox denies that I am blocked at
alanfox.blogspot.com/
Every time I attempt to present a comment the blocked flag descends.
I was able to circumvent the blockage once or twice but can no longer do so. I suspect someone has hacked his site and I think I know who it is but of course cannot prove it or I would!
"A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable."
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posted 06. December 2006 07:43
Once again I am allowed to post at Alan Fox's blog. It seems to be an example of the old adage -
"The squeeky wheel gets the grease"
We will never know what would have happened had I not complained.
"A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable."
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posted 06. December 2006 19:00
Phil Skell called my attention to an article in American Chronicle that supports my PEH.
Go to americanchronicle.com/
then to Recent Articles and scan down to the article -
The Evolutionist Campaign to Suppress the Truth by Kazmer Ujarosy.
"A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable."
John A. Davison
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posted 07. December 2006 10:13
Thank you Poul,
"A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable."
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John A. Davison
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posted 07. December 2006 13:14
Here is how it works at alanfox.blogspot.com/
I am banned again because when I try to post a comment the blocked page comes down. Then I complain about being banned as I am doing again here. Next Fox unbans me with a statement that I am not banned, thus trying to make me look like a fool. Isn't that clever? Let's see if it works again this time as I am not through with them over there yet.
There is more than one way to deal with the "Davison problem" isn't there Alan.
I love it so!
It is hard to believe isn't it?
"A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable."
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