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Integral World: Exploring Theories of Everything
An independent forum for a critical discussion of the integral philosophy of Ken Wilber
  Frank Visser, graduated as a psychologist of culture and religion, founded IntegralWorld in 1997. He worked as production manager for various publishing houses and as service manager for various internet companies and lives in Amsterdam. Books: Ken Wilber: Thought as Passion (SUNY, 2003), and The Corona Conspiracy: Combatting Disinformation about the Coronavirus (Kindle, 2020). Jesus and Mo About EvolutionJust How Is Ken's View on Evolution Different?Frank Visser Says Wilber:
Calculations done by scientists from Fred Hoyle to F.B. Salisbury consistently show that twelve billion years isn't enough to produce even a single enzyme by chance.
In other words, something other than chance is pushing the universe. For traditional scientists, chance was their god. Chance would explain it all. Chance—plus unending time—would produce the universe. But they don't have unending time, and so their god fails them miserably. That god is dead. Chance is not what explains the universe; in fact, chance is what that universe is laboring mightily to overcome. Chance is exactly what the self-transcending drive of the Kosmos overcomes. —Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution, 1996, p. 26 Further ReadingFrank Visser, The 'Spirit of Evolution' Reconsidered: Relating Ken Wilber's view of spiritual evolution to the current evolution debates, www.integralworld.net Frank Visser, Integral Theory and the 'Big History' Approach: A Comparative Introduction, www.integralworld.net Frank Visser, Entropy and Evolution: Ken Wilber's arguments for "an infinitely powerful force" behind evolution debunked, www.integralworld.net Frank Visser, Only a Theory or The Only Theory? Controversies Around the Theory of Evolution, www.integralworld.net
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