Challenging Darwinism and Scientific Orthodoxy
The Heresy of Thinking and the Birth of EVOLUTIO
On a symbolic stage—inside the grand lecture hall of a prestigious university—Dr. Agustín Ostachuk stood poised to challenge the sacred foundations of modern biology. The room was full. The air, electric. But as he began to speak, that electricity turned.
What followed was not debate. It was expulsion.
Cries of “Heretic!” erupted from the crowd, not in jest but in fury. In a symbolic gesture, the audience dragged him out, exiling him from the house of orthodoxy. And with that act, a line was drawn—not between fact and fiction, but between free thought and enforced conformity.
This scene, while metaphorical, is deeply autobiographical.
Science as a Church of Power, Not Truth
The modern scientific-academic system markets itself as a meritocracy, a noble pursuit of truth. But its inner workings are far more political than principled. I learned this the hard way.
When I proposed a new theory of evolution in 2020—one that sees life not as a competitive scramble for survival, but as a process of unfolding, of self-realization—I wasn’t met with argument. I was met with silence. Or worse: bureaucratic ostracism.
Funding disappeared. Invitations vanished. Collaboration became taboo. I hadn’t just questioned Darwin—I had disrupted a system designed to protect its own paradigms.
In this system, original thought is tolerated only as long as it doesn’t shake the foundations of power. Dissent is not discussed. It is disqualified.
The Logic of Natural Selection Is Flawed
The core of my critique is not ideological—it’s logical.
Natural selection presupposes what it tries to explain. It treats survival as a measure of fitness, then defines fitness by survival. This circular reasoning, hidden behind layers of statistical modeling and historical narrative, offers a convenient smokescreen for a theory that lacks explanatory precision.
Worse still, it carries a tacit worldview: that life is competition, that adaptation is always reactive, and that meaning is an illusion. This is not science—it’s ideology masquerading as mechanism.
But what if evolution is not a struggle, but a story? Not a fight, but a flowering?
EVOLUTIO: A New Beginning Outside the System
After being pushed to the margins of the academic world, I faced a choice: submit, or begin again.
On July 9, 2022, I founded EVOLUTIO: A Research Center for Evolution and Development—a space beyond gatekeeping, beyond institutional compromise. A place where thinking is not punished, but cultivated. Where science can ask not only how life changes, but why.
EVOLUTIO is built on the belief that science must be liberated from the machinery of prestige, competition, and political alignment. That another science is not only possible—it’s necessary.
Life as Unfolding, Not Adaptation
What if the purpose of life is not adaptation, but actualization? What if organisms are not passive responders to random pressures, but active participants in their own becoming?
In this vision, evolution is a process of unfolding—not of imposed survival, but of internal transformation and actualization of preformed potentials. Not struggle, but real emergence. Life, in this framework, is not a battleground but a journey toward self-realization.
This is the kind of science we pursue at EVOLUTIO.
Why This Matters
The cost of independent thinking in today’s academic system is high. But the cost of obedience is higher. When truth becomes subject to approval, and curiosity must be subordinated to funding strategy, we lose not only knowledge—we lose meaning.
That’s why EVOLUTIO is not just a research center. It’s a declaration of scientific independence.
“What is an ocean but a multitude of drops?”
If you’ve ever been silenced, marginalized, or dismissed for thinking differently—know that you’re not alone. There is a growing community that sees what’s happening. That refuses to confuse consensus with truth.
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