WHAT various elements of ToE?
When you say "ToE" to me, I instantly think: Theory of Everything (the physicists are going for that). But what you evidently intended was: Theory of Evolution.
I have absolutely no problem whatsoever with theories of evolution.
I just think Darwin's totally STINKS TO HIGH HEAVEN: It classifies man as nothing other than a "clever animal" with "adaptive skill..."
I strongly doubt that is how the Creator thinks about His Creation, individual man somehow being its epitome....
Any questions???
Since this is a thread about evolution, and I had spelled out the term "Theory of Evolution" earlier, I thought it would be evident which of the 27 terms abbreviated by "ToE" (according to Acronym Finder I meant.
WHAT various elements of ToE?
The principle that evolution is a process of genetic change over time, and that those changes occur at a relatively steady rate. I use that principle when making comparisons of genes across species. For example, if I am interested in comparing an enzyme form and function between chickens, humans, mice, dolphins, turtles, and trout, and the only enzyme sequence I have on hand is mouse, my knowledge of the ToE tells me how I need to alter my search strategy for each species in order to have the best chance of success. To find the human gene, I may be able to use my knowledge of the mouse gene directly. But to find the trout gene, I'll have to make extensive comparisons of genes from other species in order to identify the parts of the enzyme that do not tolerate much variation, and then use that knowledge to design my search. How and to what extent genes differ between one species and another is predictable within the context of the ToE. "Creation science" has no such predictive properties (and, as such, is not a theory).
This Wiki article gives a pretty good description of how the ToE ties together various life sciences.
I just think Darwin's totally STINKS TO HIGH HEAVEN: It classifies man as nothing other than a "clever animal" with "adaptive skill..."
Darwin's contribution to the ToE (which predates him) is the principle of natural selection--that (random) mutations conferring a survival/reproductive advantage tend to increase throughout a population. Other ToEs had proposed that organisms somehow change themselves to fit their environment, which is not the case. Giraffes did not elongate their necks so as to eat leaves from tall trees; giraffes with longer necks had the advantage of being able to eat leaves in tall trees and therefore they did not have to compete with the animals eating the lower leaves.