The long-expected Butterflies of the Afrotropical Region Part III (Lycaenidae, Riodinidae) has taken five years in gestation was finally published in December 2009. The work comprises 380 pages, and includes new taxa and revisions of genera in the Lycaenidae and the Riodinidae.

In his latest volume, Butterflies of the Afrotropical Region Part III, d’Abrera also devotes five meticulously researched chapters and a Comparative Glossary to his attacks on the entirely speculative neo-Darwinian paradigm which is based on belief in an ‘Ancient Universe’, itself dependant on Presumption of so-called 'Deep Time', Conjecture about fossil-bearing rocks and the fossils themselves, and Inference about the geological processes that might have occurred to produce them.

Other activities in the History and Philosophy of Science

 In this new book, Bernard d’Abrera argues that “It is no more and no less than my right to express a different scientific view, in the beginnings of a search for a new paradigm and to provide my readers with food for thought, and an opportunity for them to shake off the chains and manacles of the scientismic thought-police, who have, over the past century or so, also numbed their victims’ critical faculties.”   

Evolutionism, for obvious reasons, needs incomprehensible quantities of time in order to sustain the Darwinian postulate of gradual and imperceptible change from ‘primitive to more ‘advanced’ species over such time, especially with respect to the so-called fossil record. Linnaean taxonomy on the other hand, is based on observable and measurable scientific phenomena in the here-and-now, and does not depend on any model of the passage of time.

Cosmological Adventure

In his new volume the author also attaches an Appendix in which he takes his reader on a cosmological adventure by proposing a different view on the formation (= Cosmogony) of the universe, and a fresh look at the way the universe might operate (= Cosmology). He also revisits Earth Sciences in three succinct essays, in which he proposes a new interpretation of the history and formation of the planet earth starting inter alia from the theories of the Australian Geophysicist, S. Warren Carey (1911-2002), and a development of the tectonic theories of Alfred Wegener (1880-1930).

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