Darwin loses again

www.evolutionnews.org ^ | 4/13/07 | Michael Egnor

[conmanning1]

This guy's a neurosurgeon at Yale. Beat that Darwin!

[SteveMcKing]

Welcome to...

[staytrue]

yawn, I’ve taught physics for premeds. for the most part, doctors are smart in that they can learn from experience.

theoretical physics is beyond them and actually theoretical anything is beyond them.

[arkfreepdom]

And what makes you think doctors can’t be scientists? Many of us were scientists before we were docs.

[outofstyle]

I’ve taught physics for premeds. for the most part, doctors are smart in that they can learn from experience. theoretical physics is beyond them and actually theoretical anything is beyond them.

I have taught physics for premeds as well, before going to medical school. I am not sure what you are saying. There are just as many idiot MDs and Ph.Ds as there are non doctor idiots.

[Michael.SF.]

I’ve taught physics for premeds

Physics was possibly my toughest course in College. Differential Equations and Finite Element Analysis seemed a snap in comparison.

[Getready]

But, I’d bet you wouldn’t want to be treated by someone
trying a “theoretical” cure on you or anyone you
love.

Also you shouldn’t use the term “theoretical” since
the root word is “theos”(i.e. God)... in science
you should never use anything that smacks of belief in God.
Right? Maybe the term should be anthroretical, or perhaps
cerebroretical, or phrenoretical, or rna-oretical, or
string-oretical.

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

They pull an intellectual three card monte and the..................rubes buy it.

algore, gungrabbers, SCOTUS, etc, have learned this same game well.

[elkfersupper]

Interesting.

It appears that one must be seriously insecure in one's faith in order to post such drivel.

[conmanning1]

I would think a neurosurgeon should know a thing or two about biology.

[conmanning1]

Faith? That’s a neurosurgeon speaking. Not a priest.

[facedown]

What sad drivel.

[staytrue]

actually, a really good neurosurgeon loses a lot of general scientific knowledge as time goes on.

the same is true of a lot of phds, they know a lot about a narrow subject but were actually a much more rounded scientist before they got their doctorate.

[elkfersupper]

Faith? That’s a neurosurgeon speaking. Not a priest.

I wasn't referring to the occupation(s) of the people referenced in the article.

Why exactly did you post this?

[Coyoteman]

Saturday, March 10, 2007

The Real Question Is Would You Want Egnor As Your Doctor?

Our esteemed creationist M.D., Michael Egnor, continues distorting evolutionary theory and its relationship to medicine. In a Evolution News and Views piece yesterday, Egnor makes fun of an Alliance for Science essay contest for high school students where they are asked to answer the follwoing question: "Why would I have wanted my doctor to have studied evolution?". PZ (several times) and Orac (again, several times) demonstrate Egnor's ignorance on the topic of evolution as well as the relationship between evolutionary biology and medicine.

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[ndt]

"I would think a neurosurgeon should know a thing or two about biology."

Biology is a big field. To quote Egnor himself...

Doctors don’t study evolution. Doctors never study it in medical school, and they never use evolutionary biology in their practice. There are no courses in medical school on evolution. There are no ‘professors of evolution’ in medical schools. There are no departments of evolutionary biology in medical schools.

Now to be honest there are many doctors who do study and use evolutionary biology, but clearly Dr. Egnor admits to having no such background himself.

[HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath]

Another thing that makes Darwin so preposterous is the fact we can’t find anything close to Earth anywhere in the Universe. And we never will because God said he created “the Heavens and the Earth (singular).

[Coyoteman]

Another thing that makes Darwin so preposterous is the fact we can’t find anything close to Earth anywhere in the Universe. And we never will because God said he created “the Heavens and the Earth (singular).

The day is still young...

You don't mind if scientists continue looking, do you?

[ndt]

"Another thing that makes Darwin so preposterous is the fact we can’t find anything close to Earth anywhere in the Universe. And we never will because God said he created “the Heavens and the Earth (singular)."

WTF?

[RussP]

“Also you shouldn’t use the term “theoretical” since
the root word is “theos”(i.e. God)...”

I didn’t know that. The potential implications are quite interesting.