| Specious reasoning and clever crafting of | | | | (transmutate) all the way up from a single-celled |
| definitions can make about anything appear to | | | | organism. Since nobody has ever seen one type |
| come true. As John Mackay (1852) observed, | | | | of organism transmutate into another, he would |
| "When men wish to construct or support a | | | | have had a much harder sell. On the other hand, |
| theory, how they torture facts into their service!" | | | | saying that "change" is the same thing as biological |
| Mackay, J. (1852). Extraordinary Popular Delusions | | | | evolution makes anyone who does not accept |
| and the Madness of Crowds. Some words are | | | | Darwin's evolution, someone who rejects change. |
| innocently created to straight forwardly describe a | | | | In other words, stupid. Please note that evolution |
| particular thing but can insidiously take on a life all | | | | normally implies progressive change. But nothing |
| their own. Our language is filled with words that | | | | evolves in that sense without intelligent |
| have departed from their original definitions and | | | | manipulation. Corn kernels get bigger, evolve, |
| are now widely misconstrued and abused. | | | | because of intelligent horticulture, home |
| Examples include truth, religion, supernatural, | | | | architecture evolves because of intelligent |
| morality, liberal, capitalism, freedom, | | | | engineering, and mathematics evolves because of |
| love…basically all the hot button words and | | | | mathematicians. That little fact -- that intelligence |
| subjects people consider to be their little sacred | | | | is needed for things to progressively evolve -- |
| domains of private belief and interpretation. | | | | just happened to be left out when Darwin's |
| Evolution is another example of such a word. In | | | | evolution was attached to dictionary evolution. A |
| the dictionary, evolution's first definition is: the | | | | word was stolen from our vocabulary, a word |
| process by which something develops into a | | | | everyone can agree to. Cleverly then, a new |
| different form. The word and this meaning | | | | footnote about a whole new mechanism was |
| predated Darwin's concept of biological evolution. | | | | attached to it without really alerting anyone. By |
| Here's how that fact has proven useful in helping | | | | that I mean biological evolution is not mere |
| to make his case. Most certainly, things do evolve | | | | change. In overview (cell to human sense) it is |
| in the dictionary's pre-Darwinian sense of the | | | | gross change, more like a skipping or gigantic |
| word. We evolve as individuals, society evolves, | | | | hopping. It is about transmutations in the absence |
| technology evolves, education evolves, the | | | | of any intelligent force to make them happen. It |
| automobile evolves and agriculture evolves. To | | | | would be like me coming up with a new theory of |
| the uncritical eye, evolution, taken as being | | | | commerce. I scan the dictionary and decide to call |
| synonymous with change, seems to fit well with | | | | my theory, "possession". Everyone possesses |
| what all of us experience every day: Homes get | | | | things and possession is nine tenths of the law. My |
| built beginning with simple blocks and 2 X 4s, our | | | | "possession" theory is a process by which one |
| bank account balance grows slowly, our bodies | | | | goes into a store, loads up bags and carts with |
| begin small and get bigger, babies begin with one | | | | whatever they want and takes it all home. The |
| cell that multiplies into a whole body and anthills | | | | stuff is possessed. What a cool theory. Now |
| grow one grain of dirt at a time. Since everything | | | | when the police show up at your door and take |
| changes, everything can be said to evolve. How | | | | you to court, you just take your dictionary. You |
| convenient for Darwin's "evolution." He could not | | | | say to the judge, "Looky here judge, the |
| have chosen a better word. The case was closed | | | | dictionary says possession is to have things and |
| before he ever got into court. Since everything | | | | that's all I did." Do you think the prosecutor might |
| evolves it is not too much of a leap to accept | | | | make the argument that you have left out an |
| that life evolved. The word itself is tendentious, | | | | important part of the definition, namely that to |
| creating in and of itself reason to believe the | | | | possess something legally requires a mechanism |
| theory. If he had chosen the word transmutation | | | | called paying for it? Possession means having |
| instead of evolution, things might be entirely | | | | something, according to the dictionary, but that |
| different. Although transmutation would be a | | | | does not legitimize any form of possession. |
| better description of the theory, the unfamiliarity | | | | Evolution means change, according to the |
| of the word would force people to determine | | | | dictionary, but that does not legitimize any theory |
| meaning and evaluate that against their own | | | | of change. For further reading, or for more |
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