Existence is only real when it is conscious to somebody. ~ Carl Jung Suppose you observe two men, man A is aiming a gun at the man B whose arms are raised. As a strict positivist, who only accepts the evidence of the senses, that is the limit of what … Continue reading
Category Archives: Science
Evolution and the Order of Being
The fact the higher forms and types are manifested or revealed following the inferior ones by no means proves that they are the product or creation of the inferior realm. The order of being is not identical to the order of phenomena. The higher, more positive and fuller types and … Continue reading
Scientific Clarity and Assurance
What our fathers did through custom and feeling, we ourselves pursue it through reason and will, with the assurance and clarity of science. Continue reading
Free Will and the Laws of Physics
Why should we suppose there are “laws of physics”? Does physics account for the totality of reality? Is a scientific law anything other than a clever creation of the human mind? Continue reading
Tenets of Darwinism
Darwinism is based on two fundamental tenets: Survival of the fittest Variation in a population is the result of random genetic mutations The current version is better called neo-Darwinism because Darwin did not know about genes. As Karl Popper pointed out, tenet (1) is really a tautology, not however in … Continue reading
Fruit Flies and Evolution
Scientists performed the following experiment with two colonies of fruit flies. The first colony was allowed to breed without interference. In the second, the flies were selectively bred to produce a superior colony, that is, it “evolved”. The interesting thing is that when male flies from the evolved colony were … Continue reading
Intellectual Anarchy
No readers of these lectures should I ever think it necessary to prove that ideas govern and upset the world, or, in other terms, that the whole social mechanism rests, at bottom, on opinions. They are acutely aware that the great political and moral crisis in present-day society is due, … Continue reading
Family Values
If anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. ~ 1 Timothy 5:8 Continue reading
The Sacred Syllables of Auguste Comte
Order and Progress Family, Country, Humanity Love as the principle and order as the basis, progress as the goal Everything is relative, that is the absolute principle Infer in order to deduce, so as to construct To know in order to foresee, to foresee in order to make possible The … Continue reading
Only a god can save us
Evola consistently rejects both the claims of faith and of science to explain the origins of civilization. Instead, Evola makes note of “extra-scientific intuitions” and his methodology is not the study of genetics, or even of arechology, but rather “very laborious philological, anthropo-geological, mythological, and symbolic methods”. In our post-Christian … Continue reading