A New Theory of Evolution

What if the evolution of the biosphere over millions of years was a process of nonlinear macrodevelopment, similar to the nonlinear development of the embryo of the biological individual in its mother's womb? What if the animals of the early Cambrian era were really generic "stem animals", analogous to the generic "stem cells" in the early embryo? What if the evolution of the biosphere historically proceeded "top down" from the generic to the specific (i.e., from phylum to class to order to family to genus and, finally, down to the species level) for essentially the same reasons as the development of the individual embryo proceeds from the most-generic stem cells down to more-specific types of cells, and ultimately down to the most-specific cells that comprise the organs in the fully developed biological individual?

Wouldn't such a nonlinear theory of evolution likely be superior to the outdated 19th century, linear, mechanical, reductionistic theory of Darwinism, according to which the biosphere is (essentially) "nothing but" a statistical calculating machine? And wouldn't this theory of macrodevelopment stand the best chance of resolving the conflict between religious and scientific viewpoints with respect to the biosphere?

In September of 1996 Robert F. DeHaan first proposed the theory of macrodevelopment in his path-breaking article "Paradoxes in Darwinian Theory Resolved by a Theory of Macrodevelopment" (PSCF 48:180). To learn more, follow the links below:

"New Evolutionary Theory: The End of Ideology" (Phil Engle paper)
"Symmetry in Evolution" (Phil Engle paper, published in PCID: The Journal of the ISCID, Volume 1.4, October - December 2002)
"Teleology and Information in Biology" (Phil Engle paper, presented at the ISCID's e-symposium The Teleological Origin of Biological Information)
"Paradoxes in Darwinian Theory Resolved by a Theory of Macrodevelopment" (DeHaan's original article)
"Do Phyletic Lineages Evolve from the Bottom Up or Develop from the Top Down?" (another DeHaan article)
The Theory of Macrodevelopment (a web site maintained by Carl Resler)