[Dark Knight]

In some ways I feel bad about these continued threads about Dr. Dini. He is in no position to change the scientific community. Heck, I know people without BA's that have more grants under their belts (they're on his website).

I get emotionally charged when I think about the "student" that sat in on his class (non student in reality) and made a complaint. A poseur in the real sense.

But the most amusement I get, is the lack of standards I see, when a person can ask "What clinical medical practice or technique requires a belief in evolution?" Required belief is key. If there is not a clear case for the belief, and I do mean noncontroversial type clear, it is wrong. Many competant physicians are not evolutionists.

There are better tests for physician compentency. If you do not use them, your claim of scientist is in question.

DK
These threads are always strange.

[Ichneumon]

If there is not a clear case for the belief, and I do mean noncontroversial type clear, it is wrong.

There is indeed "a clear case" for belief in evolution. In fact, the case is so clear that I would not want to put my life into the hands of someone who knew the case but rejected it, because there's no telling what other well-founded knowledge they might reject out of hand because it doesn't fit their preferred beliefs, or what practices they might follow as a result of it (e.g., Christian Scientists who reject the process of life-saving blood transfusions).

I would no more want a physician who rejected evolution for fundamentalist grounds than a physician who rejected other parts of modern medicine out of a belief that acupuncture and its effects on the "chi" flow of the body was the "real" root cause of health and disease.

Many competant physicians are not evolutionists.

I require more than mere "competence", thank you very much.

And frankly, from the anti-evolutionists I've met through the years and had long discussions with, I can't say that I have much confidence that most of them could even rise to the level of "competent" when it comes to complex technical issues. I sure as hell wouldn't want any of them doing surgery on me.