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Topic: John A. Davison: Julian Huxley’s Confession
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John A. Davison
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posted 19. January 2007 10:42
Scordova
This is for you over at Uncommon Descent where, as you know, I have been banned. You claim that speciation takes time. That is wrong for two reasons. First is your use of the present tense, since true speciation and the formation of any of the other taxonomic categories is no longer going on. Second, speciation and the formation of every and all the higher categories was always an instantaneous event without any transitional stages.
It is too bad that David Springer has banned me there (twice), as I could otherwise directly correct many of the blatant errors that keep emanating from that forum. Perhaps you would reprint my comment there for me? Somehow I doubt it. Dembski does not care to have my name mentioned any more than Elsberry does and probably for exactly the same reasons.
"The first bird hatched from a reptilian egg."
Otto Schindewolf
"We might as well stop looking for the missing links as they never existed."
ibid
"A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable."
John A. Davison
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posted 20. January 2007 07:36
To avoid littering this forum with comments about my status at alanfox.blogspot.com/ I have decided to restrict my comments to updating the situation at my 6:24 AM, January 19, 2007 response to Martin. I already did that beginning this morning and am still being blocked from comment on a thread dedicated to my own paper!
It is hard to believe isn't it?
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 20. January 2007 11:37
John,
I know you avoid philosophy. Yet it seems to me that theory of derepression of hidden capacities might be something that was built in Nature itself as a hint for us. I would like to mention not only expression of recessive alleles when they are coupled together but also ubelievable autistic savants numerosity. It seems that all of us have such skills, but they are inhibit by a part of the brain. Bringing that part of brain (which is in savants unfunctional) to standstill using repetitive magnetic stimulation our ability to such numerosity increase substantially.
According theory of Australian scientists same case is the perfect pitch - there is nothing in physiology that should hidnern all of us to have the perfect pitch.
Savant-like numerosity skills revealed in normal people by magnetic pulses
http://www.centreforthemind.com/publications/SavantNumerosity.pdf
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btw. Alan's blog is one failure. I am unable to post there anything too. Its pure wasting time on his blog.
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posted 20. January 2007 13:19
Martin
I read the paper you presented and it is very interesting. It agrees with the PEH to an extent I would never have expected. The notion that all potentialites can be revealed or, more accurately, "derepressed" would truly be revolutionary if it can be fully documented and repeated.
When I was a graduate student (over a half century ago) we often spoke of the "triple test" when new ideas appeared in the literature. The "triple test" referred to the requirement that before novel findings are accepted they must be confirmed by at least two other independent laboratories. The sensory physiological literature is littered with reports that could never be repeated and accordingly failed to become accepted. If these remarkable findings are going to be accepted by this investigator, they must survive the "triple test." It will be interesting to see if they do.
I do not agree with the way you suggest we should deal with Alan's blog. When people behave the way he does they should be fully exposed for as long as it proves necessary. Exposure of chicanery is every bit as important as is the independent verification of honesty demanded by the "triple test." There is altogether too much scandalous behavior in today's scientific world. There always has been and it must never go unrecognized and undisclosed.
"If you tell the truth, you can be certain, sooner or later, to be found out."
Oscar Wilde
It is just as important that liars are also "found out." I hope you can agree.
"A past evolution in undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable."
John A. Davison
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Martin
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posted 20. January 2007 13:49
John,
article I mentioned I consider only as a practical outcome of this one - more theoretical - from the same authors (1999}:
"Is Integer Arithmetic Fundamental to Mental Processing?: The mind's secret arithmetic"
http://www.centreforthemind.com/publications/IntegerArithmetic.cfm
I found out this article because author Vaclav Petr in his remarkable article on Robert Broom mentioned that Broom extraordinaly memory can be probably explained by this theory. Article is in English if you want to see it:
"British metaphysics as reflected in Robert Broom's evolutionary theory":
http://www.mprinstitute.org/vaclav/Broom.htm
As you can imagine I hit on this article seeking something about Robert Broom after reading your Manifesto.
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posted 21. January 2007 12:21
Martin
I was familiar with the Broom article. Robert Broom is one of my heroes right next to Berg, Schindewolf, Goldschmidt, Bateson and Grasse. I heard Broom lecture when I was an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin. I think it was in 1948. It was obvious to me even then that he was a great mind and a very talented artist as well. Many of his published sketches of fossils were from memory. He is the one who convinced Julian Huxley that evolution was finished, something the Darwinians have very conveniently forgotten all about. I documented the whole business in my Manisfesto and elsewhere. Speaking of evolution being finished -
"A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable."
John A. Davison
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Martin
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posted 21. January 2007 15:20
John,
it's interesting that there is no coherent work of these authors available on internet. I must pick-up thoughts of these no doubt great scientists from neodarwinistic sources (from instance where Fisher criticize Punnet). It's very weird indeed - it reminds me of time of communism. There also man could pick up anti-marxistic thoughts only from marxistic books.
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posted 21. January 2007 17:22
Martin
There is plenty of material on my sources in all my papers and in my Manifesto. You don't really expect Darwinians to call attention to their critics do you? They never have and they never will because they are afraid to open that enormous can of worms. That is exactly why I continue to be either ignored or worse, vilified, banned or deleted. I have more than anyone else, in recent times at least, opened up that can of worms. Read my papers and see if you must not agree. Why do you think both sides of this idiotic ideological nightmare refuse to even mention my name on their various blogs and forums. It can be summarized with a single word -FEAR.
Not one member of the so-called "ID movement" has ever even mentioned my name in hard copy and very rarely even at all. David Springer has made it very clear that Dembski thinks I am "nuts." I don't believe that for a millisecond. If he did Dembski would say so instead of, like all the other "IDists," continue steadfastly to pretend that I and my distinguished predecessors do not exist.
"A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself."
Robert Burton
I have been and continue to be that dwarf and have never pretended otherwise. My only unique contribution to the evolutionary mystery is my Semi-meiotic Hypothesis (SMH), which to this day remains untested and accordingly viable.
As for the Darwinians and the Protestant Fundamentalists alike -
"No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men."
Thomas Carlyle.
I want nothing to do with either faction and neither did any of my sources, neither a professed atheist nor a religious fanatic in the lot and neither am I.
"And then there are the fanatical atheists whose intolerance is the same as that of the religious fanatics, and it springs from the same source....They are creatures who can't hear the music of the spheres."
Albert Einstein
"The main source of the present-day conflicts between the spheres of religiion and science lies in the concept of a personal God."
ibid
"A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable."
John A. Davison
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posted 22. January 2007 14:56
I see that Scordova chooses to ignore my message directed to him of January 19, 10:42 AM. He also has not responded to my private message. It seems that Scordova has now joined with the rest of the Uncommon Descent* cadre in pretending that I do not exist. That is very unfortunate but that has been the fate of many of us who have rejected both camps in this mindless debate concerning the mechanism of our origins. We also do not exist over at Panda's Thumb. Apparently ideologues are like that wherever one encounters them. He disappoints me.
* Speaking as a scientist, the very name "Uncommon Descent" offends me. Sorry about that. Man is very definitely a Primate and had Primate ancestors.
"A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable."
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posted 23. January 2007 16:00
At my request, Alan Fox has introduced "Julian Huxley's Confession" over at alanfox.blogspot.com/ but I am unable to ask him how he feels about it because the block sign keeps coming down!
It is hard to believe isn't it?
"A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable."
John A. Davison
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posted 24. January 2007 18:35
Alan has come up with a new twist to keep me from posting. He has a word verification step to prevent spam. The problem for my computer is that there is no word for me to verify. Isn't that charming? So here I am again unable to comment on a thread with the title of my own paper! What a class act.
It is hard to believe isn't it?
"A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable."
John A. Davison
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posted 31. January 2007 16:26
Without Martin and myself, alanfox.blogspot.com/ will be of no further interest to anyone. When one must block, delete, denigrate and ban ones critics, one has demonstrated that he is not a rational being, nothing more than a victim of his "prescribed" congenital ideology. That is the way it is in a predetermined universe.
"Everything is determined...by forces over which we have no control."
Albert Einstein
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posted 01. February 2007 08:33
Its worth mentioning that darwinists consider themselves to be a kind of nobility and treat others thereafter.
Yet at ATBC and at Fox gasping darwinistic blog they resort to abuses instead of discussing the issues. Most surprisingly they often use argument that anti-darwinist sources are "outdated". I suspect them that all anti-darwnian thinking before 2007 is "outdated" for them. Yet the naturalistic ravings from the mid 19th century they consider as utterly inspiring and up-to-date.
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posted 01. February 2007 12:52
Martin
See if you can post at Larry Moran's Sandwalk blog -
sandwalk.blogspot.com/
where I somehow managed to get in a few licks on the thread with a photo of Dawkins posing with P.Z. Meyers. I think they finally banned me as they did not let my last message appear.
I love it so!
"A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable."
John A. Davison
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posted 02. February 2007 19:17
So far Larry Moran is tolerating both myself and my friend Martin.
It is hard to believe isn't it?
"A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable."
John A. Davison
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