The Age Of Transition And Scientistic Fraud
Ours is the great transition age. For the masses, the glowing
assumption is that the transition and transformation age we are
undergoing is the work of a long, evolutionary process of “natural”
“progress.” Wandering about their bubbles, these presuppositions never
go challenged or examined, having dobbed their cafeteria plate lives
from a long string of newsbite phrases and empty slogans overheard in
establishment schooling. “We are evolving,” and “We live in an era of
change,” and numerous other advertising blurbs that underlie modernity’s
plastic ideology actually form the basis for most of humanity’s
worldview. Yet are any of these assumptionsactually true? Are we in
living in an era of “progress” and “human ascent”?
I answer in the negative and the reasons for my dark assessment are many. Listening to a recent interview between someone of a truly skeptical bent with a figure in the scientism/skeptical crowd,
I was irked to hear a bevy of fallacies and incongruences and
unexamined assumptions that will here be analyzed with scalpel-like
precision. As mentioned above, what precisely is meant by the terms
“evolution,” “change,” “progress” and “Nature”? According to those in
the ranks of establishment scientism, these are givens, terms of brute
factuality and reason, all of which mystically coalesce to give us the
“best possible model” of the world under the new grand narrative mythos
of “science.”
What is meant by “evolution”? According to modern scientism, the
observation of small-scale changes in a species that appear to aid in
the species’ extension into the future through reproduction is the basic
understanding of evolutionary adaptation. Thus, because certain breeds
of animals can be bred with fitter members of the species, we can
extrapolate that large-scale aeons of time resulted in the origins of
all life from a single amoeba. When it is pointed out thataeons –
millions of years – of adaptation and change are not observed, the
reply is that bacteria purportedly adapt under conditions of pressure.
Thus, it follows that all life mutated under conditions of pressure to
“evolve” into what we see today.
