Romans 1:22
"Two articles in Popular Mechanics, both by Darren Orf, provide an opportunity of exemplifying Hegelian logic, clarifying its meaning and usage, and displaying the contradictory marriage of Darwinian materialism and Hegelian process metaphysics:
Scientists Found a Paradox in Evolution—and It May Become the Next Rule of Biology (Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 24 May 2024).
First, Orf’s older article from 2024:
Note first the idea of law being expressed here. “Rules and laws help us make sense of the world around us.”
The realization that rationality implies rationality (logicians call this a “tautology” and Creationists “common sense”) has been slowly but undeniably dawning on evolutionary biologists as evidence mounts, evoking a Kuhnian crisis in the discipline. It is becoming evident, sometimes even to Darwinian biologists, that rationality is not just in our minds. It is also a real structural component of nature. In other words,
There is, however, another twist or complication in the quotation above, further elaborating what a law of nature means. The laws of physics and chemistry discovered by science are inviolable as exemplified by the laws of thermodynamics, which adequately explain inorganic nature. They are necessary.
The contradiction between determinism (necessity) and free-will is dispelled by the realization that they are not different things at all, but mere moments that are overcome in the evolution of reality that is Spirit.
Before we continue with this article, we should pause to note a few very important aspects of Hegel’s process metaphysics – the logic of Darwinian evolution.
Scientists Found a Paradox in Evolution—and It May Become the Next Rule of Biology (Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 24 May 2024).
First, Orf’s older article from 2024:
"Across the sciences, rules and laws help us make sense of the world around us, whether applied to cosmic scales or subatomic ones. However, in the biological world, things are a bit more complicated. That’s because nature is often full of biological exceptions, and so “rules of biology” are also considered broad generalizations rather than absolute facts that explain and govern all known life."
Note first the idea of law being expressed here. “Rules and laws help us make sense of the world around us.”
There are two levels of meaning here.
First, WE (human beings) are MAKING sense. There is in science
an active mental component to the formulation of laws and rules, and the laws and rules we make (formulate/theorize and test) are rationalized accounts (stories) of what we observe in nature – the empirical data.
Second, however, is the more unconscious assumption on which the process of making sense (science) rests: that there is a sense to be made. It is this last assumption – that there exists in nature an objective rationality to be discovered – that Darwinian biology has systematically and progressively denied for the last century and a half through the adoption of a materialist metaphysics.
The realization that rationality implies rationality (logicians call this a “tautology” and Creationists “common sense”) has been slowly but undeniably dawning on evolutionary biologists as evidence mounts, evoking a Kuhnian crisis in the discipline. It is becoming evident, sometimes even to Darwinian biologists, that rationality is not just in our minds. It is also a real structural component of nature. In other words,
… if science can make sense of nature,
then nature must be made from or by Sense.
There is, however, another twist or complication in the quotation above, further elaborating what a law of nature means. The laws of physics and chemistry discovered by science are inviolable as exemplified by the laws of thermodynamics, which adequately explain inorganic nature. They are necessary.
The contradiction between determinism (necessity) and free-will is dispelled by the realization that they are not different things at all, but mere moments that are overcome in the evolution of reality that is Spirit.
Before we continue with this article, we should pause to note a few very important aspects of Hegel’s process metaphysics – the logic of Darwinian evolution.
1) it is driven by contradiction.
2) it is inexorably progressive, moving ever onward and upward into greater complexity and comprehension, and this is because it is the process of Self (Spirit) coming-to-consciousness.
3) it is a logic of narratives, of retrospective storytelling. Thus, it can – indeed, it must – account for anything and everything.
Knowing Hegel as I do, I was instantly drawn to the title, “Scientists found a paradox in evolution – and it may become the next rule of biology.”
Knowing Hegel as I do, I was instantly drawn to the title, “Scientists found a paradox in evolution – and it may become the next rule of biology.”
“Paradox” is another word for (an apparent) contradiction, right? And now the proposal is that the contradiction become a rule or “law” of evolutionary biology. Not surprising, as evolutionary biology stands on contradiction and is logically driven by contradiction. If this sounds like the Hegelian dialectic we just observed in action, it should.
Never forget that Hegelian reasoning is a retrospective producer of narratives. Wherever and whenever stuff happens Hegel’s dialectical logic will preserve the story, as contradiction is the very engine of its “progress." CEH
Never forget that Hegelian reasoning is a retrospective producer of narratives. Wherever and whenever stuff happens Hegel’s dialectical logic will preserve the story, as contradiction is the very engine of its “progress." CEH