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Swerving with Lucretius
It is nice to see Lucretius finally getting his due. In The Swerve: How The World Became Modern, Stephen Greenblatt pays homage to the Roman poet (and his Greek predecessor Epicurus). A few years ago,...
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Seeing Catholic: Design, Adaptation & Teleology
If I understand my Catholic friends and scholars correctly, God created the cosmos, earth, and life. This God sparked the original organism and designed an evolutionary process that has resulted in...
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Cosmos & Evolutionary Progression
Ever since humans began thinking and talking about the world, they have had ideas about its nature and cosmic placement. Cosmological thinking surely goes back to the Upper Paleolithic and has been...
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Classifying Cultures: Grade v. Clade
When we account for human history in evolutionist or developmental terms, we nearly always fall into the trap of teleology and progressivism. Even when evolutionist schemes are carefully and...
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Aestas Excursi
Having been away for a while on a much needed camping excursion to the glorious Pine Ridge of Nebraska and Black Hills-Badlands of South Dakota, the blogging has taken a backseat and links have piled...
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Invisible Orders & Theory
When we think about invisible entities or forces and use them to explain events, we are theorizing. We are postulating, in other words, an underlying or overarching order which can account for change...
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Interrogating Progress (Part 1)
“Men and societies frequently treat the institutions and assumptions by which they live as absolute, self-evident, and given. They may treat them as such without question, or they may endeavour to...
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Fractured Evolutionary Narratives
Yesterday Nature published a study of a ~55,000 year old cranium which shows that anatomically modern humans (“AMH”), presumably migrating out of Africa, were in the Levantine corridor at a time when...
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