![]() My attempt is not to produce a textbook but to present the reader with information that may be useful in establishing the different successive steps performed by evolution, leading from the origin of the Universe to contemporary Man. We can be blind to the obvious and we are also blind to our blindness. The constantly repeated erroneous initial interpretation, volunteered by a pundit who may be greedy and corrupt, backed by a subsequent blind and respectful consensus resting on a stubborn refusal of individual expenditure of mental energy, may persist during centuries without correction (one well known example is “ the sun revolves around the earth”). A disquietingly large number of scholars in all fields recurrently, systematically and easily follow pundits without exercising their own capacity of analysis. This adjustment and adaptation of our current Weltanschauung to a better interpretation of true facts is usually violently contested and met with hostility. Centuries may elapse before the accumulation of paradigmatic abnormalities forces an overhaul of the accepted theories. He is the prisoner of paradigms that are only reluctantly questioned or abandoned. ![]() Is it possible to draw up a coherent, if schematic, view of evolution, encompassing the whole phenomenon? Man's intellectual activity usually functions within a frame of accepted concepts. A chronological record of historical events shows that there is progress in history but the sense of the evolution is not evident. This idea of evolution excluded human history. Darwin had an idea that unites the two most disparate features of our universe: the world of meaningless matter in Brownian motion on the one side and the world of meaning, purpose and design on the other.
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