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To: orionblamblam
But a rejection of science leads to bad doctoring. I would be as leery of a surgeon who believed that the moon was made of green cheese as of one who rejected 150 years of biology, chemistry, physics and geology.

Someone who disbelieves evolution has not necessarily rejected science.

Science is not what one believes; it is what one does. Scientists create models to describe what they observe about the real world. Such models are generally imperfect and tentative; they are not intended to represent "Truth." Indeed, a model may be abandoned when it ceases to be useful.

This process of model building does not require that one accept or even be aware of the other scientific models that are current. In some cases, those other models may be irrelevant. In other cases, an unusual model may be more useful than a standard one.

I too would be leery of a surgeon who really thinks the moon is made of green cheese. However, I would not be worried at all to learn that my surgeon knows nothing about the composition of the moon—so long as he is a competent surgeon.

Likewise, I would not be worried to learn that my surgeon believes that God created the earth—so long as he is a competent surgeon.

129 posted on 10/28/2005 6:26:00 PM PDT by Logophile
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To: Logophile

> I would not be worried to learn that my surgeon believes that God created the earth

This is not mutually exclusive from evolution.

> so long as he is a competent surgeon.

Thjat's your choice. I'd be leery of anyone plannign on stickign a knife into my guts if he believed that healign or injury could just magically/miraculously resolve itself. I'd vastly rather have a doctor who recognized that the chunk of meat that is my body is a physical thing that obeys the laws of physics as we know them. If he believs that humans jsut suddenyl popped into existence in our modern form... then he can believe anything.


164 posted on 10/29/2005 12:32:44 AM PDT by orionblamblam ("You're the poster boy for what ID would turn out if it were taught in our schools." VadeRetro)
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