To: Michael_Michaelangelo
TOPS then explicitly rejects several implications of Darwinian evolution. These include: (1a) The implication that living things are best understood from the bottom up, in terms of their molecular constituents.This is wrong-headed from the get-go. The key component of evolution is selection, which is top-down.
3 posted on
05/17/2004 1:00:26 PM PDT by
js1138
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To: js1138
"TOPS then explicitly rejects several implications of Darwinian evolution. These include: (1a) The implication that living things are best understood from the bottom up, in terms of their molecular constituents."This is wrong-headed from the get-go. The key component of evolution is selection, which is top-down.
Notice how what you just quoted says that TOPS "rejects several implications of Darwinian evolution" (one such aspect being that things are best understood from the bottom-up). So saying it's "wrong-headed from the get-go" because natural selection is "top-down" is absurd. That is like saying "the world must be flat because a curved surface would contradict basic tenets of contemporary flat-earth theory". You cannot use a competing theory of itself to disprove a counter-proposal.
12 posted on
05/17/2004 2:58:35 PM PDT by
explodingspleen
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