The Issue of Evolution
by A. Robert Malcom
Perhaps no word has had so much controversy and mis-understanding as the word 'evolution' - largely because it was not being explained in terms of context, and oft considered through only one of its applications: biology. To begin with, evolution is nothing other than the recognition that the universe is, by its nature, dynamic - and that aspects of the universe which involve measurable duration reflect changes as a consequence. The changes, in general, are what are called progressive in nature - that is, the duration evolves.
If one recognises that "existence exists," this means that something cannot come from nothing, because 'nothing' is not a different kind of 'something,' but merely a designation of the absence of something. The consequence of understanding this is the recognition that the universe - the sum of that which is [which exists] - has as such no beginning nor any end, that only aspects of the universe do, and that these are artificially construed as such by intelligences which possess awareness of duration - in this specific case, humans, which possess volitional consciousness.
From a cosmological standpoint, understanding the issue of evolvement is best achieved through plasma cosmology - no, this is not the prevailing view, but it is one which is borne out by observation and extrapolation, not one borne by just mathematical formulations and non-reproducable equivocation, with observations only such as would fit into the preconceived view, ignoring the oddities which do not fit. According to Hannes Alfven, the founder of modern plasma physics, the evolution of the universe in the past must be explicable in terms of the processes occuring in the universe today - that is, events occuring in the depths of space can be explained in terms of phenomena we study in the laboratory on earth - the difference is merely one of magnitude. The principles of operation remain the same. This follows the recognition that the universe is integrated. Such an approach rules out any such concepts as an origin of the universe out of nothingness, a beginning to time, or a Big Bang. Since nowhere do we see something emerge from nothing, we have no reason to think this occurred in the distant past. Instead, plasma cosmology assumes that, because we now see an evolving, changing universe, the universe has always existed and always evolved, and will exist and evolve for infinite time to come.
Now, what is 'plasma'? Essentially, it is hot, electrically conducting gases - and over 99% of the matter of the universe is composed of this. Electromagnetic currents flowing thru plasma generate filaments - cylindrical magnetic fields which tend to twine together into a plasma rope, much as air rushing together in a tornado. Magnetic fields and currents can concentrate matter and energy far faster and more effectively than can gravity. Remember, the universe is an integratedness - however complex it is, there is no true chaos in it. This is noted in the displays generated by fractols - which not only show order into the microstages, but likewise in the macrostages. The same principle applies to plasma filaments and the spiral vortexes caused by the electromagnetic flow - we see it in the solar system, and we see it in the galaxies, and we see it in the mega or supergalaxies.
Continuing with the principle, it can be said that the whole of the universe, by the dynamic nature that it has, is itself a gigantic electromagnetic power grid. Moreover, because the gridding, by its nature, is nonhomogeneous, there is nothing to suggest the universe is uniform - which is to say that some areas are from specific standpoints seemingly more evolved than others, and that other areas are at a cyclic point of coming into a different form of evolving, sort of like a perpetual wave form traversing, working its way around the whole of the universe.
Note the timescale, the measuring of duration - it stretches from the infinite of the universe itself [meaning that it is beyond known measurement ability] to that of the earth being about 5 billion years old. The idea of evolution, of course, carries onward - this time through the geological stages, where the dynamics of revolving balls of gases converges into the solidity of a planet which has first one area above water - Panglea - then into several supercontinents, then into what we have today. Within this geological evolving is the biological one of life - self-sustaining and self-generating entities.
Out of all this comes the one most everybody whimpers and whines over - the evolution of volitionally conscious entities: humans. Here again, I am going to take the scientific viewpoint of proceeding by observation and extrapolation. Again, this means taking a not-yet-majorly-agreed viewpoint of origin - in this case, the view of the Aquatic ape.
to be continued..........
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