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Darwin in medical school
Stanford Medicine Magazine ^ | Summer 2006 | MITZI BAKER

Posted on 06/08/2006 9:57:58 AM PDT by Right Wing Professor

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1 posted on 06/08/2006 9:57:59 AM PDT by Right Wing Professor
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To: PatrickHenry

One pingy-dingy....


2 posted on 06/08/2006 9:59:05 AM PDT by Right Wing Professor (...I'm dancin' right there with you, Iraqis.)
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3 posted on 06/08/2006 10:10:27 AM PDT by PatrickHenry (Unresponsive to trolls, lunatics, fanatics, retards, scolds, & incurable ignoramuses.)
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To: Right Wing Professor

Shouldn't be controversial since even biblical creationists don't claim that evolution within a species doesn't occur.


4 posted on 06/08/2006 10:11:38 AM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: GovernmentShrinker

Yeah... but I'm still getting the popcorn.


5 posted on 06/08/2006 10:14:27 AM PDT by Celtjew Libertarian
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To: GovernmentShrinker
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6 posted on 06/08/2006 10:19:26 AM PDT by Coyoteman (Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death--Heinlein)
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To: GovernmentShrinker


<< Shouldn't be controversial since even biblical creationists don't claim that evolution within a species doesn't occur. >>


But the article dared to use the word "Darwin." That'll be enough to set the caterwauling in motion.


7 posted on 06/08/2006 10:20:36 AM PDT by Almagest
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To: Right Wing Professor

Thanks for the post!

There is an editorial from the NEJM from October 6, 2005 that makes many of the same points.

Faith Healers and Physicians — Teaching Pseudoscience by Mandate

Robert S. Schwartz, M.D.

www.nejm.org



8 posted on 06/08/2006 10:24:39 AM PDT by flixxx
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But the article dared to use the word "Darwin."

What is interesting is that the article used Darwin wrong, really.

This is more a sociobiological perspective. Writers use evolution and Darwin as buzz words because they are "controverisal".

The article is a mixed bag. It's a big straw man in that this perspective is widespread in medicine. This seems to be more about garnering attention via sensationalism.

9 posted on 06/08/2006 10:31:09 AM PDT by tallhappy (Juntos Podemos!)
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To: tallhappy


Agreed.


10 posted on 06/08/2006 10:33:00 AM PDT by Almagest
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To: Right Wing Professor
His mind wandered to the early days of humans when heart disease was a rare trigger of death.

Well, duh. Early humans didn't live long enough to get heart disease. Instead, they died of infections or some other easily curable ailment, or they were eaten by predators.

11 posted on 06/08/2006 10:34:56 AM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: Right Wing Professor
The nay-sayers aren't going to like this one. Sometimes an evo will ask, "Do you really want a creationist 'doctor' taking out your gall bladder?" The question will provoke reams of denial that a doctor needs to know anything about evolution, regardless of whether evolution is right.
12 posted on 06/08/2006 10:50:31 AM PDT by VadeRetro (Faster than a speeding building; able to leap tall bullets at a single bound!)
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The push to get darwin into medical school began

It appears that darwin has evolved from Darwin.

13 posted on 06/08/2006 10:57:41 AM PDT by siunevada (If we learn nothing from history, what's the point of having one? - Peggy Hill)
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<< It appears that darwin has evolved from Darwin. >>


Little-d darwin -- otherwise known as microdarwin -- has been observed. Big-D Darwin -- otherwise known as macroDarwin -- has not, and never will be, observed, because darwin is a "kind."

/Cre-mode off/


14 posted on 06/08/2006 11:01:01 AM PDT by Almagest
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To: GovernmentShrinker

You Darwinists make these threads such a bore that the Creationists just don't bother posting anything....

Oh, BTW, you're wrong about what biblical creationists believe, depending on how "evolution" is defined (e.g., an increase in genetic information over generations).


15 posted on 06/08/2006 11:03:15 AM PDT by Theo
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To: Almagest

That was macro-LOL, not just micro-LOL!


16 posted on 06/08/2006 11:05:09 AM PDT by Right Wing Professor (...I'm dancin' right there with you, Iraqis.)
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To: Theo


<< You [macro]Darwinists make these threads such a bore... >>


That you microdarwinists are just forced to come in and say ridiculous things.

I understand. We are at fault. We make you do it.


17 posted on 06/08/2006 11:09:44 AM PDT by Almagest
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To: Theo


<< Oh, BTW, you're wrong about what biblical creationists believe, depending on how "evolution" is defined (e.g., an increase in genetic information over generations). >>


So let me get this right: You are allowed to use whatever definition of evolution you choose, and that is not "being wrong about evolution" -- but you still have the gall to say that we are wrong about "what biblical creationists believe."

Heads-I-win-tails-you-lose. Nice little scam ya got goin' there.


18 posted on 06/08/2006 11:11:42 AM PDT by Almagest
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What makes your complaint even mroe laughable is that the person you were complaining about did not say anything "wrong" about biblical creationists. While YOU may not accept "evolution within species" -- which most creationists call "microevolution" -- all of the "name" creationist organizations and individuals clearly do accept that.

So if you disagree -- your problem is not just with "us Darwinists" -- but your own fellow creationists. Why not start with correcting them before bothering us with your whining.


19 posted on 06/08/2006 11:15:01 AM PDT by Almagest
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To: PatrickHenry

Thanks for the ping!


20 posted on 06/08/2006 11:23:29 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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