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Author Topic:   Problems w/ the Current ToE
Delvo
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Message 13 of 13 (255)
05-21-2001 12:01 AM
Reply to: Message 11 by Thmsberry
03-17-2001 3:48 AM


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The current ToE is suppose to be an explanation for the Biodiversity on this planet.
Not really. It's an explanation of a mechanism by which an observed process occurs. One of the results of that process happens to be that life is diverse.
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Also, the older the population of organisms that scientist examine the greater their biodiversity. Which would indicate that the greatest amount of biodiversity occurs the closer you get to the ancestral paraphyletic community. So while life is indeed changing over time. The greatest type of diversity existed in the initial community, and thus life has not become increasingly diverse.
Incorrect. The reason why diversity is great in extremely old groups is that they've had the time to develop that diversity from a less diverse beginning which occured long ago.
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Another premise of the current ToE.
No, it actually isn't.
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...a community of paryphyletic cells... A stage that is extemely speculative and the current ToE by definition can never examine.
Right, because it's outside of that particular idea's realm, and thus can not possibly force a paradox on it. Evolution simply has nothing to do with the origin of life. That's biogenesis, not evolution.
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I await your responses to this post because this perspective means that the Current ToE can never fully explain life's biodiversity (Yet, it seeks to do just that)
Not really. It explains why things are in their current form, without any measure of "diversity" being relevant. For example, the group "homonids" is much less diverse now than it has ever been before in the last couple of millions of years, and evolution gives part of the reason: most of the species in it have gone extinct because one of them evolved to outcompete the others (or they themselves failed to evolve to adapt to changes).
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...the only implication of the theory is the minor observation that the Current ToE demonstrates that life varies over time.
No, that's the observed fact of evolution. The "theory of evolution" is something else, a misnomer referring to the theory of natural selection (which is actually a law at this point, not a theory anymore), which is an explanation of the main mechanism by which evolution works. See my first paragraph again.

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