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To: rrc
evolutionism is only vital to humanists who need an excuse......,

Didn't you read the article? Here's the summary:

As the oft-quoted Theodosius Dobzhansky wrote in 1973, “Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution”. The time has clearly come for medicine to explicitly integrate evolutionary biology into its theoretical and practical underpinnings The medical students of Charles Darwin's day did not have the advantage of such a powerful framework to inform their thinking; we shouldn't deprive today's budding medical talent of the potential insights to be gained at the intersection of these two great disciplines.

6 posted on 05/03/2007 5:49:19 PM PDT by Coyoteman (Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
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To: Coyoteman; From many - one.
From Many, Apparently at least one is still here.

Doc, Don't bother, they've made their choice.

10 posted on 05/03/2007 6:27:27 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Deliberate ignorance is sad to witness.)
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To: Coyoteman
"Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution".

Comparing what little we know to all that there is to know, I assert that next to nothing in biology makes sense, either in light of, or in spite of, evolution.

The plain fact is that neither statement in any way alters the biological processes themselves, neither alters any man's ability to observe those processes, learn their progression, to understand what happens, and in what order. Whether the man is a humanist, an Islamist, a Moonie, or a Scientologist is entirely irrelevant to the ability to observe, record, and relate the particulars of that which was observed. And it is also irrelevant to the man's ability to identify processes that he does not yet understand, to determine the need for deeper study, and to devise specific methods by which to advance that study. To assert that a belief in evolutionary theory would suddenly transform the man from scientific incompetence to Nobel Prize stature is patently absurd.

At some point, it must be conceded that a macro-scale framework is nearly entirely unneccessary to the complete understanding of micro-scale events. In fact, it may be a time-wasting tangential distraction. Who needs an origins theory to comprehend the internal processes of a cell? The cell is being studied in the present tense, and its behavior will not change in any way regardless of what theory of origins is subsribed to by the brain connected to the eye looking into the microscope. Ninety-nine percent of all scientific research and discovery could be carried forward with complete success in an absolute vacuum of any origins theory whatsoever, and it's high time that everyone just sat back for a minute and acknowledged that. There's been far more heat than light generated in the bickering about origins over these last many decades, and that energy would be much better invested in hard research studying the myriad present-day, observable, physical things we do not fully understand.

Perhaps if everyone took that approach, our progress in hard data would eventually reveal the truth in an inescapable fashion, WITHOUT all of the mudslinging, name-calling, backstabbing, slander, accusation, smug elitism, career wrecking, and downright devilry we currently face.

None of that is "science"; it's little more than a mob of so-called "grown ups" demonstrating the misapplication of that label by having a bloody row in the sandbox of life. And, make no mistake, I include parties on all sides of the fray in my indictment; there's guilt enough to go around.

18 posted on 05/03/2007 7:22:00 PM PDT by HKMk23 (If 9 of 10 orcs attacking Rohan were Saruman's Uruk-hai, not Sauron's orcs, why invade Mordor?)
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To: Coyoteman

Evolution has absolutely nothing to do with the clinical practice of medicine. Would matter if in some research. But they make too much of even that.


30 posted on 05/03/2007 9:31:13 PM PDT by therut
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