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//-->Darwin and the New WorldOrderIAN T. TAYLOR(Text below is from the printed edition - inside Front Cover)Virtually everyone who reads these words at one point had to endure the public educationsystem. Some no doubt quickly caught on to the fact that educational success is the resultof regurgitating opinions and statements that conform to the doctrines of the system.Others may have rebelled at the lack of opportunity to question that which very often ismere dogma masquerading as fact.If not stifled and deadened by this mental abuse, a healthy curiosity early seeks answersto those age-old questions concerning man's origin and destiny. Thus it is disturbing tofind that, under the guise of orthodox science, any kind of evidence that does not supportmost textbooks' scenario for our origins has been sedulously kept from the light of day.In the Minds of Menin particular exposes point by point the fuzzy reasoning behind thetextbook explanations, revealing the motivation while at the same time providing a greatdeal of counter-evidence that has been concealed for far too long. Thoroughly researchedfrom original sources, the scholar and layman alike will find this to be a source-bookwhich traces the humanistic reasoning that runs throughout most of the natural and socialsciences.It closes by showing that the evolutionary viewpoint provides support for many of thesocial ills of today and, on a world scale, is responsible for the political drive towards oneworld government. This, according to the declared humanist objective, is mankind'sdestiny.ABOUT THEAUTHORIAN T. TAYLOR is a Toronto-basedwriter and researcher. A universitygraduate from London, England, he wasemployed for more than twenty years asa research metallurgist in thelaboratories of one of North America'scorporate giants. He obtained patentsfor high-strength weldable alloys, armorplate, and a novel process for themanufacture of heat exchangers. Afurther five years were spent in the fieldof television production where hebecame producer-writer for a sciencedocumentary series broadcastthroughout the U.S. and Canada.In the Minds of Men fills a vital gap byrelating the humanities to the sciences.The author is currently working onanother book to fill a second vital gap— relating the humanities to thespiritual life.Preface to the First EditionBy a curious turn of events I found myself the producer-writer of a documentary filmseries that examined the ongoing debate between Creation and evolution. Althoughunrelated to my profession, metallurgical research, the venture turned out to be far moreexciting. Viewer response was unexpectedly positive, a surprising development since themost sacred tenets of evolution had been exposed to studio light if not actual daylight.Interestingly, less than five percent of the letters were negative—hostile might be a betterdescription. Most of these writers were careful to emphasize their credentials, givingaway the fact that their belief system was rooted in a vested commitment to evolution byreason of profession. For the other viewers, among whom were physicians, businessmen,and high school students, there was no such commitment—indeed, I suspect a propersurvey would find this to be so for the man in the street today.The many hundreds of letters showed that public interest in the programs lay beyondmere iconoclasm. Rather, it was due to a deeper and more subtle impact on the humanpsyche. Basically, the writers expressed the view that although they knew Creation to besomehow "religious", they had always had reservations about the idea of evolution as"scientific". Many indicated that the programs confirmed their suspicion that theeducation system has not been entirely honest and scrupulous about providing all thefacts.The programs presented sufficient information to enable previously unformulatedquestions to be properly focused and even sharply honed. The dry-as-dust matter ofCharles Darwin's pigeons and fossils took on new significance as the viewer realizedtheir relationship to the great social issues confronting us today. For it became clear thatevolution is not now confined to biological evolution, to which Darwin's name isattached, but has become an ideology that extends into virtually every area of humanactivity, including politics. As the programs continued to reveal further details generallykept from the public, the Creation account as an alternative began to take on thecredibility that had been lost in the face of today's orthodox explanation—evolution. Inshort, armed with all the facts, the viewers were now jury members who could make aproper and personal choice of their worldview.One thing had become clear: a great need among the ordinary uncommitted people of thisworld for all the facts and information and not just what has been filtered through theminds of committed humanists, many of whom are educators and members of the mediaand who thus in a very real though perhaps not conscious way virtually control all thatenters the human mind.In the Minds of Menhas been written expressly for the majority of the public, those whofeel "uneasy" about evolution and in a broader sense are aware that history, science,religion, and politics must surely share common principles. They do indeed. Althoughthere are books on these individual subjects, so far as is known there is no one volumethat combines them all between two covers in such a way that the common evolutionarythread becomes abundantly plain. I have attempted to put together such a volume.Documentation from orthodox scientific sources has been made more than generous sothe reader may be as certain as the author that no statement has been taken out of context.The book may be read on three levels. A reading of the straight text will provide morethan enough to whet the appetite of the average reader. The more adventurous reader maydelve into the footnotes, in whose depths he will find many gems of information notgenerally known. And, finally, the appendices will provide the home computer enthusiastwith data to play with. But this is not to mention the value of the illustrations. A morediligent approach than using the hackneyed portraits supplied by the picture agencies hasbrought forth many beautiful engravings not generally seen in this century.This book would not have been possible but for the help of good friends. My gratitudegoes to Robert Simpson ... [and others, and] ... special thanks to Faithe Frew who, goodas her name, had sufficient faith in me to keep typing the chapters, notes, the dreary listof references, and the endless rewrites—all in her spare time.My hope is that through the minds of honest men this work will help make the world abetter place.TORONTO, CANADASeptember 1984Preface to the Fifth EditionThe first four editions ofIn the Minds of Menfound many good friends among a widespectrum of readers in Australia, Canada, the United States and Russia. Interestingly, theRussian edition was translated into the Russian language by the Russian Ministry ofEducation in Moscow. I would particularly like to thank those readers who have sentencouraging letters and snippets of information to confirm observations made in thebook. Especially gratifying have been those occasions when a perfect stranger hasapproached me to express their thanks for having written a book that has led them to anentirely different world-view. It is also pleasing to know thatIn the Minds of Menwaslong ago accepted by the Canadian Public Library system and it is being used by anumber of colleges and even seminaries as a textbook. In more recent years the book hasentered the American trade book market and has been regularly sold by Barnes andNoble, Borders Books and amazon.com. Readers may be interested to know that therewere two reprints for each of the first four editions resulting in a total of twenty-fivethousand copies. There has been no paid advertising for this book and, for the most part,copies have found their readers by word of mouth recommendation.Over the years,In the Minds of Menwent from hardback to softback while each newedition was up-dated wherever possible. The content is mostly historical however andfew changes were necessary. Of course, typographical corrections were mostly allcompleted by the second edition. When new and relevant discoveries were published, thisinformation had to be compressed in order to squeak it into the text without adding morepages. However, the production of the fifth edition as a CD has enabled new informationand even three more illustrations to be added without difficulty. The detailed list ofcontents and full index has been retained to make quick and easy access to any topicwhile the "Find" device under "Edit" available in most computer programs makes it verysimple to locate the exact word being sought within the page. I trust that this fifth editionas CD (or on-line HTML version) will prove to be as helpful as the first four editionswere in book format while any further suggestions and comments from readers are, ofcourse, most welcome.KINGSTON, CANADANovember 2003In the Minds of MenIntroduction"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." This well-worn opening verseto the book of Genesis has been the answer to man's question How did the cosmos begin?from the beginning of recorded history until recent times. But today, in our computerspace-age, can we say that this statement is still relevant? Is this a valid and believableaccount of our origins? One thing at least will be widely agreed upon about the biblicalverse: it relates time, space, and matter in a stunning economy of words, all the moreremarkable for the fact that these three most basic entities are mutually required. That isto say, no one entity can exist without the other two. No matter who the author was in theremote past, it certainly was someone with great wisdom and insight. Taken quiteliterally, the statement offers the reader a straightforward explanation for the origin of theuniverse and all it contains, making no apology for the fact that the account involvessupernatural creationex nihilo,creation of something from nothing.Knowledge of the world comes to us either directly or indirectly through our five senses.Man has systematized that knowledge in order to gain an understanding of nature; theexercise is called science and the motivation is usefulness. The discipline of science hasgenerally been in opposition to religion, for the latter claims that there is a further sensebeyond the five senses by which man attains true wisdom: divine revelation,acknowledged to be an unprovable concept beyond the natural realm of scientific inquiryand man's understanding. However, because of association with peculiar religiouspractices, any suggestion of the supernatural is not accepted with enthusiasm by theorthodox scientific fraternity, and history shows that there are good reasons for thisrejection. With the progression of scientific understanding and techniques, particularlyduring this century, the need to appeal to any supernatural explanation has given way,time and time again, as the light of science has revealed perfectly natural explanations.While it is acknowledged that there are still a great many things for which science as yethas no explanation, it can be said with confidence from the past that it is only a matter oftime and research before all of nature's mysteries are revealed. It would appear to be veryrational, then, to consign a supernatural account of our origins to that diminishing body offolklore that at one time included wishing wells and fairy rings. [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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