Fred - You keep referring to "top down" natural selection. I can't imagine what that means - unless maybe you're trying to slip some ID in under the door.
Then you say,
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. . then natural selection itself, a product of blind natural forces operating in environments that “themselves are effectively random,†would also, ultimately, be “effectively random
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That's like saying that water at room temperature and pressure, being a product of the gas oxygen and the gas hydrogen - is therefore
effectively a gas.
For someone who complains about rigor in others' arguments, you should understand that your saying that something is true is not enough to establish its validity. You need to have some logical
connection in the equation to get from one to the other. Or, is that too rigorous for you?
Margaret