Galileo Lives!!!
BOOK REVIEW: WHY EVOLUTION IS TRUE
By Jerry A. Coyne, Penguin Books, London, 2010, 282 pages
By Samuel A. Nigro, MD, copyright c 2016
"We are the one creature to whom natural selection has bequeathed a brain complex enough to comprehend the laws that govern the universe. And we should be proud that we are the only species that has figured out how we came to be." (Page 233)
Those are the last two sentences of the book--an amazing but feeble touch of spirituality for an atheist whose naturalistic secular materialism and constricted version of evolution are opiates which allegedly confirm "how we came to be." And in contradiction to the rest of the book, Coyne wrote on the penultimate page 232: "Deriving your spirituality from science also means accepting an attendant sense of humility before the universe and the likelihood that we'll never have all the answers."
Given that Coyne rejected natural law and virtue in his recent book, Faith vs Fact, it is puzzling how he can acknowledge human super-nature above all other species and then summon the ancient virtue of humility which is "accurate self-awareness" rather than some of the fourteen elements common to the human body on the periodic table. Perhaps he has a soul after all?
Why Evolution Is True "proves" ("describes" is more accurate) evolution by an overwhelming presentation and imposition of Darwin's theory of natural selection. Stories are created for everything to explain everything and all facts are naturally selected to fit ("Natural selection" is a dogma never to be sinned against.). Whatever the creature, the natural selection story applies, or will in time as required by the next enthusiastic discovery to be interpreted the Darwinian way only. There can be no heresies or great arguments with the "facts" as presented by the pre-ordained science interpretations required. Evolution is declared to be true and all "facts" are presented/contorted/decreed as such. Infallibility reigns for science too, especially when cogent criticisms are ignored (1) and (2).
Theophobia:
What also comes through is the theophobia (3) so common for those who see evolution as excluding the ancient secrets of human super-nature consistent with a Loving God and a pre-Big Bang Eternity, Infinity or the scientific word for the space/time continuum's beginning and end: "Statimuum". To mock, trivialize, degrade, reject and deprive people of the comfort and succor of a Loving God is selfish, arrogant, cruel, subhuman, ignorant, and unscientific. To censor the Catholic Mantra of life, sacrifice, virtue, love, humanity, peace, freedom, and death-without-fear is outrageous. To discover a Big Bang space/time continuum without a pre-Big Bang non-space/non-time Statimuum, is just pathological denial. Not to see their subnatural anti-humanness, by rejecting the ancient, is to not use the fullness of their supernatural abilities above the others in the animal kingdom. What do atheists want from God (scientifically, an UnRestricted Act of Thinking--"UR-AT" [by Fr. Robert Spitzer (4,5)]) as messages? No creation? A No Bang? Words proven to be "angels"(6)? Better scientific probabilities? Godel's Theorems? A planet with all the 118 elements of the periodic table instead of one or two elements as on other astral bodies? A planet with the toxic elements in low quantities isolated and remote from living creatures? A planet with water and elements warmed nicely between freezing and boiling protected from all anti-life bombardments? A life protecting electromagnetism from the molten core of the earth stirred by a moon which once was part of the earth? The ideas of Transcendence (being, matter, identity, truth, oneness, good, beauty) and Love? A Statimuum--what used to be called Eternity--all of all immediately--I AM WHO AM (to be joined by those who love)--an UnRestricted Act of Transcendence (UR-AT for all)? More? Atheists want more than a man who rose from the dead? (If that does not impress, nothing will.)
Supernature: conscious-of-consciousness
Humans have a super-nature above the rest of the animal kingdom. It is called conscious-of-consciousness or C2 well described in my "Theogeocalculus of Life" (7) and "The Attainment of Psychological Freedom" (8). A few examples of relevant observations of its use and non-use:
(1) Although Atheists always gleefully tell of his "mistreatment" by the Church, the celebration of Galileo regularly overlooks the fact that he was, con-man like, laughed out of the Venetian Senate when he asked for funding so he could "invent" the telescope, because all knew of its earlier development in Germany. Also overlooked are Galileo's faulty studies of the ocean tides which he claimed "proved" the circulation of the earth about the sun--something not really proved until stellar parallax studies of the nineteenth century. Even more overlooked is the fact that when Galileo disturbed the peace and showed contempt for authority by making religious claims outside his area of expertise, he lived his arrest in a comfortable palace. Could it be that, "bad science" evolved from Galileo's making exaggerated claims about ocean tides which his superiors could see that he had not proved, and that subsequent scientists refuse to learn from what Galileo really did? Do scientists suffer from Galileo's bad genes? Will evolutionists call it "natural selection" too and claim it just as another proof of evolution?
(2) Darwin's Descent of Man is obviously wrong. It is the "ascent" of man we see in evolution unless the traditional messages of a Loving God are ignored. Evolutionists are looking at life upside down and may be just still imitating Galileo.
(3) Godel's Theorems are the scientific fulfillment of the doctrine of original sin. (The ancient Jews did not have contemporary words, only parable words). Godel's first theorem is that in a system of complexity, questions exist that are neither provable nor disprovable on the basis of the axioms in the system; that is, true statements are undecidable even if known to be true on the basis of the system as known. Godel's second theorem is that the system is always incomplete because new undecidable elements will always be present such that contradictions occur when the system claims it has decided all; that is, the system will generate more undecidability. If undecidability and incompleteness are always present in extreme mathematical formality, how much more are they present in everything else man does. In the human complex, things are born wrong (undecidable and incomplete) and there will be defects about which forgiveness and corrective action will almost always be needed, unless the Virgin Mary.
(4) Coyne's referring to Richard Dawkins three times in this book is disturbing because Dawkins is a discredited science fabricator, more than Galileo, who likely is no longer allowed to link himself with the University of Oxford. The God Delusion by Dawkins quotes three psychiatrists who tell Dawkins that he is incorrect and should not use the term "delusion" as he does. And yet, Dawkins does not care. He does it any way--in imitation of Galileo. Another Dawkins book, Climbing Mount Improbable, reveals praise for Ernst Haeckel whose fraudulent drawings of embryonic development still float around, and, thereby co-corrupted, Coyne himself defends Haeckel. The Galileo case is thus replayed? Worse yet, in Climbing Mount Improbable, Dawkins totally fabricates a reference to a Nilsson and Pelger article on eye evolution--calling it an "elegant computer model." In embarrassing truth, it was nothing but a series of confabulated sketches--totally and outrageously distorted and grandiosely magnified by Dawkins. Interestingly, Coyne refers to the same Nilsson and Pelger article as "science." Quite to the contrary, the essay is pure imagination (pages 142-143), like the exaggerated claims that Galileo made about ocean tides. Finally, Coyne makes reference to Dawkins' oxymoronic "clever" definition of "natural selection" as "the non-random survival of random variants" (page 119). In truth, Dawkins' writing really is "the non-random never-actually-observed story-telling about selected survival of selected random variants".
(5) Then there is the shocking expose of academic scientific studies found at this site: "http://reason.com/archives/2016/08/26most-scientific-research-is-wrong-or-useless". I offer one example by quoting a brief statement from the article: "In 2015, only about a third of 100 psychological studies in three leading psychology journals could be replicated." That is just a hint of how bad it is. One wants to yell: "Scientists: Save yourselves! Do better than Galileo!"
Closure:
Why Evolution is True is likely not filled with fraud, but, like Galileo, the interpretations and claims are arrogant, never-directly-observed impositions. Today, more than ever, science has become filled with anti-academic, intolerant, dishonest, and arrogant abusers of science out to make names for themselves as they act out a required theophobia which forgives their own sins against truth. They "create" evolution by their own self-imposed style of "intelligent design"--so it all fits. May be it should be called "natural selection pseudo-intelligent design/creationism"? And they have no alternative except a personal evolution into a pre-Big Bang state which they cannot allow themselves to believe.
References:
(1) Samuel A. Nigro,MD, "Why Evolutionary Theories Are Unbelievable" Linacre Quarterly, February 2004, Vol 71, #1, pp 58-75.
(2) Samuel A. Nigro, MD, "Charles Darwin's Bicentenary: Time for a 'Celebration' or an Inquest?", Social Justice Review, May/June 2008, pp 72-76.
(3) Samuel A. Nigro, MD: "Theophobia, Dehumanization and Depersonalization: A Critique of Prominent Secular-Atheist Thinkers", 2007, unpublished.
(4) Fr. Robert Spitzer, S.J., Ph.D, The Soul's Upward Yearning: Clues to Our Transcendent Nature from Experience and Reason .
(5) Fr. Robert Spitzer, S.J., Ph.D, From Nothing To Cosmos: God and Science--a comprehensive look at the evidence for God.
(6) A chapter in each of my three books expand on the fact that "words are angels" (ultra-microscopic person-al messages)--Happy Ending, Everybody For Everybody, Soul of the Earth.
(7) Samuel A. Nigro, MD: "The Theogeocalculus of Life: Natural Law Thinking has the Answer to Everything," The Linacre Quarterly, August 2006.
(8) Samuel A. Nigro, MD: "The Attainment of Psychological Freedom", Social Justice Review, November/December, 2002, pp176-179.
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The content of the book is educational yet easy to read. It doesn’t bore but doesn’t also feel like a summary of everything we’ve read or been told. My only issue is that the book came to me damaged and if it expensive I would have been truly upset but because it’s cheap and the binding and cover are also fragile i can let it pass. Great book so far and images within the text are great references.
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