PART ONE: Laying The Foundation

In PART ONE, I lay the foundation for theorizing about evolution in a manner that is consonant with the reality that nothing can ever have happened outside the constraints of what I refer to as Essential Law (which I carefully define). The foundation is one upon which I have built a unique theoretical framework - a new paradigm - for advancing the study of evolution.

Because the existence of Essential Law depends upon the existence of God, I open my discourse in Chapter 1 with a proof of God from an argument I have constructed for the logical impossibility of nothingness. I follow with a declaration about the relationship between metaphysics and science. Next, I define the concept of Essential Law and how it defines true science. A critical analysis of the wayward notions of disorder, randomness and chance is then undertaken, bolstered by an explanation of the concept of inevitable eventivity. In so doing, I demonstrate how the cited wayward notions, put forth by evolutionary theorists determined to exclude God, have confused and misdirected evolutionary science.

In Chapter 2, I respond to some laws, principles and other concepts of science generally offered in opposition to the inevitability in the behavior of the substance. They are given special attention for the purpose of placing them in proper context with the unfailing constraint upon the substance that is responsible for inevitable eventivity, Essential Law.

The school of thought that adheres to the fallacy that chance, as it is articulated by the calculus of probabilities, is a creative force in evolution will no doubt die hard. In Chapter Three, therefore, I introduce you to the absurdity principle to demonstrate the absolute ridiculousness of fortuitous evolution. The tone of the remarks is admittedly derisive but deservedly so. The chapter then goes on to reveal the kind of "game playing" necessary to sustain the fallacious belief in chance as a driving force in evolution.

 PART TWO: Defining A New Paradigm

In PART TWO, I define a new theoretical framework that places evolution in the context of inevitable eventivity that was naturally effectuated change governed by Essential Law. I say “was” because the theory of Natural Effectuation has as one of its key tenets that the evolution of new species ended with the advent of man. Mine is the plausible approach because at the outset it acknowledges a Creator - A Supreme Legislator - who set in motion a Law-abiding universe that, by virtue of its very Lawfulness, enables science, not vice versa. I unabashedly call this Creator/Legislator, God, because that is who He is, and because science sorely needs to hear it proclaimed with conviction as a first step toward coming to terms with the fact that science exists only by His Will.

In Chapter Four, I look at evolution in ways never before considered, which leads me to outline a unique hypothetical of Coevolution. Strict definition is given to the term, evolution to emphasize the difference between speciation and variation of species. The very process of evolution is put forth as a Master Production that implements the Grand Plan of the Creator of the substance of the universe. The concepts of Bioevolution, Varivolution, Biodistinction and Enviroevolution are introduced as the four processes of Ecologization. A summary of the main points of the hypothetical are drawn up and its defining difference relative to the modern synthesis of neo-Darwinism is stressed.

In Chapter Five, I flesh out the hypothetical of Coevolution just presented. Of particular interest is a unique approach to the origin of life, following which, I go into great detail to distinguish Bioevolution as the process of organic evolution whereby wholly new species of life emerged from preexisting species of life, without change in the phenotype of the preexisting species. I debunk evolution as being (or having been) a gradual process of phenotypic change in each generation of a species. In its place, I describe a process of gradual molecular change - Incipiation - that occurred in the “unused” portion of a chromosome’s DNA that I refer to as the incipiosome. I explain how nascent genic variablelates reconfigured gametes of the progenitor species to produces gametes of what would become emergent species; how it was that, during this process, incipient species were endowed with the characteristics - as their Range Of Genosomic Variability (RGV) - that conformed them to (and made them conformable to fluxes in) the ecological niche that had been coordinately evolved to accommodate them; how upon completion of Incipiation after untold generations of offspring, subsequent attempts at reproduction resulted in the emergence of a new species; how by my theory, Incipiation is the key to speciation and requires a new concept of a chromosome consisting of an incipiosome and a genosome, which I describe in great detail. Darwinism is exposed as nothing more than the variation of species better explained by the concepts of Varivolution and Biodistinction. All of the processes, mechanisms, and agents of change of the hypothetical of Coevolution outlined in Chapter 5 are explained at great length. In so doing, I reinforce the idea that the purpose of the Grand Plan of Evolution is the ecologization of the planet.

To complete the definition of the New Paradigm, I had to engage it to produce an intelligible accounting of species and their relationships. The accounting had to take the form of a sensible method of classification that brings order to the study of life on earth, both past and present - and links the two. In the Chapter Six, therefore, I examine in detail the matter of classification as it relates to species. I closely scrutinize relationships both as they exist among extant organisms and as to the ways in which extant organisms may relate to archaic organisms. I successfully reconcile my species concept with the ambiguities that have plagued current attempts to define species.

In PART THREE, I examine some of the accumulated knowledge of biological science. My purpose is to gain some insight into how much of what we know to be true can be reconciled with the New Paradigm, particularly, its Natural Effectuation concepts of Incipiation and Conformation. I then turn to the fossil record for evidence that Bioevolution proceeded according to the theory of Natural Effectuation. I give special emphasis to reconciliation of the emergence of new species via the method of introproduction, which I refer to as Synergenesis, the union of progenitor species (following the completion of Incipiation) either via interbreeding between species or intrabreeding of differentially changed members of the same species. Special emphasis is given to explaining the origin of classes. Finally, I engage a selection of the phenomena of nature to further validate the New Paradigm.

In Chapter Seven, I examine a wealth of information from the field of genetics to gain support for the mechanism of Incipiation, particularly evidence for validation of the existence of the incipiosome.

In Chapter 8, I look for evidence of the mechanism of Conformation in the ontogeny of the species. My main focus is on the expression of the genotype into the phenotype by the process of development called epigenesis, which occurs following the union of gametes.

In Chapter 9, I look at the fossil record for corroborating evidence of the processes and mechanisms of change that define Bioevolution according to the theory of Natural Effectuation. Inquiries are made concerning the origin of life, speciation, extinction and the gaps in the fossil record. When I have finished, an ever greater validation of the New Paradigm is gained, with particular regard to Synergenesis.

In Chapter 10, I engage the New Paradigm to confront and define a selection of the phenomena of nature that I consider to be representative of the “pudding” of biology. I believe the results further convincingly demonstrate the utter reasonableness of Evolution by Natural Effectuation. By comparison during the same exercises, I expose the unreasonableness of natural selection and its modern synthesis.

In PART FOUR, which contains but one chapter, I locate man’s place in the New Paradigm.

In this final chapter, I emphasize the dual nature of human beings and demonstrate how truth in education demands that the study of our spiritual/intellectual nature be allowed to take place in conjunction with our biological nature. In the final analysis, I make the point that proper understanding of the evolution of man and our status on this planet depends upon embracing the connection between science and metaphysics or, to put it another way, acknowledging God‘s role in creation.