Intro - continued

I have decided to label my postings as either 'top-down' if they assume a Higher Being, are theistic in nature, and as 'bottom-up' if they posit a strictly materialistic/scientific paradigm. I may get to the point where this distinction will fail, not through a lack of theoretical rigor, but because my ideas are straining the framework that seeks to contain them. I will consider myself very lucky if I get that far. Sometimes I will try my hand at short stories to give an example of what I am trying to describe.