Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Ten Megaton Solution
"theoretical heart of the science that forms the basis of medicine"

This is quite a chunk of baloney. Even if these scientists could know without doubt what happened millions of years ago to the evolutionary tree, it would not have an impact on what we know about how the human body acts now. Medicine requires knowing the latter, not the former.

507 posted on 05/15/2003 12:55:04 PM PDT by MEGoody
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 465 | View Replies ]


To: PatrickHenry; Junior; balrog666
Sometimes I wonder why we even bother...

These people are fanatical, and no matter how much information we feed them, it seems to osmos out the other side.

Nothing seems to be in between to suck it up and understand.

It seems that info goes in, and more of the same blather comes out.
509 posted on 05/15/2003 1:00:08 PM PDT by Aric2000 (Are you on Grampa Dave's team? I am!! $5 a month is all it takes, come join!!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 507 | View Replies ]

To: MEGoody
Medicine requires knowing the latter, not the former.

Understanding requires knowing as much of the entire picture as possible.

Sure, a chemist could get by and make concoctions using valence tables and memorizing tables and such, but he'll do a much better job if he learns something about quantum mechanics and thus know why chemical atoms behave as they do.

Engineers could certainly build airplanes from empirical tests. They build better ones when they have a solid grounding in aerodynamic and structural theory.

Doctors have a better understanding of the machine they're studying if they recognize that the vagus nerve is located where it is because it started out in a similar place in fish a long long time ago.

Knowledge without doubt about evolution isn't necessary in a medical doctor. Understanding a basic principle of science is.

537 posted on 05/15/2003 2:27:35 PM PDT by Ten Megaton Solution
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 507 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson