
Although I am fully convinced of the truth of the views given in this volume I by no means expect to convince experienced naturalists whose minds are stocked with a multitude of facts all viewed, during a long course of years, from a point of view directly opposite to mine. But I look with confidence to the future to young and rising naturalists, who will be able to view both sides of the question with impartiality. (Charles Darwin)
In scientific investigations, it is permitted to invent any hypothesis and, if it explains various large and independent classes of facts, it rises to the rank of a well-grounded theory. (Charles Darwin)
How extremely stupid for me not to have thought
of that!
(Thomas Huxley's first reflection after mastering, in 1859,
the central idea of Darwin's Origin of Species)
The different branches of science combine to demonstrate that the universe in its entirety can be regarded as one gigantic process, a process of becoming, of attaining new levels of existence and organization, which can properly be called a genesis or an evolution. (Thomas Huxley)
..that no absolute structural line of demarcation.. can be drawn between the animal world and ourselves. (Thomas Huxley, 1863 Man's Place in Nature)
Abuse for six or seven years on the part of the public is of not the greatest consequence when one happens to be in the right and stands to one's guns. (Thomas Huxley)
Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution
is correct in the limited sense of life (plants, animals, fungi, etc.) but it
exists without Metaphysical foundations. The Theory of Evolution does not explain
what life is, how life exists as matter in Space, how life interacts with other
life and matter at a distance in Space, how life reproduces, and how this caused
life to evolve and adapt.
Only True Knowledge of Reality can provide this metaphysical foundation for
Darwin's Theory of Evolution, and also our Cultural Evolution of Knowledge and
Beliefs. Most significantly to humanity, as Wisdom is founded on Truth, until
we know this Reality of What Exists, and thus what it truly means to be 'Human'
it is impossible for humanity to be wise. And this wisdom is necessary if we
are to succesfully evolve both Life and Knowledge / Culture that enables us
to live in harmony with Nature and the Cosmos (and thus continue to survive
in a universe that is both brutal and beautiful).
And so we realise that there is this profound problem for Evolution (and physics,
philosophy, metaphysics, theology and humanity) to understand what is Evolving,
what is Matter, what is Reality such that we may know what is Truth, what is
wisdom.
This longstanding and most fundamental problem can now be solved with Logic
from Evolution (Evolutionary Philosophy).
Darwinian Evolution tells us that
Evolution must have existed before Humans evolved / existed. Thus there was
a time before humans existed when the human mind did not exist. Nonetheless,
despit this absense of Mind, evolutionary reasoning still requires that our
ancestors (Primates, Protomammals) physically existed for us to evolve from
them (to evolve arms and legs, eyes and ears, etc.). Thus life on earth existed
before our ideas of life on earth
We can demonstrate the truth of this using the Motion of the Earth as it orbits
the Sun, and how this would necessarily affect the evolution of life on Earth.
Due to the Earth's daily spin, Animal life has consequently evolved daily behaviours.
This is clearly confirmed by many evolutionary adaptations and behaviours, e.g.
Animals sleeping, nocturnal hunting (and large eyes, ears), photosynthesis of
plants. Likewise migration of birds and hibernation of bears are two of many
obvious seasonal adaptations and behaviours that are caused by the yearly orbit
of the Earth about the Sun.
Thus evolution deduces that the Earth
does in fact exist, spin, and orbit the Sun. Now most people would think that
this is pretty obvious, (we sleep every night because the earth spins as it
orbits the sun - Galileo is famous for proving the motion of the Earth with
his telescope and mathematical logic).
Remarkably, modern philosophy now believes that the motion of the Earth about
the Sun is merely an idea, a human construction / represenation, and we can
never know what in Reality exists (i.e. Kantian Idealism).
Yet Evolutionary Philosophy deduces that the earth physically existed and moved
before we existed and had ideas of its motion and thus clearly contradicts Idealism.
In fact reason from Evolution enables us to move
beyond Idealim to the Realism of what must have first existed for us to have
evolved to exist. We know that the Earth must move and thus both Space and Motion
must necessarily exist (a priori) for the Earth to move ( as we haved
clearly shown that the Earth spins as it orbits the Sun causing plants and animals
to evolve certain adaptations, and in more general terms it is a fact that animals
have evolved the ability to move themselves which likewise necessarily requires
the existence of Space and Motion.
This Evolutionary Logic, of deducing what must have existed before human animals / minds existed, provides the necessary foundations for all human knowledge. This Reality of 'What Exists' can now be sensibly explained with the Metaphysics of Space and Motion and the Wave Structure of Matter.
Kindly and sincerely,
Geoff Haselhurst and Karene Howie