[lasereye]

I was having trouble figuring out the relevance of your post to my post. There's people on the thread saying someone who doesn't believe in evolution is not qualified to pursue the study of medicine because they lack a "scientific mindset", in the same way that someone who doesn't believe 2+2=4 isn't qualified to study math. Since the people above don't believe evolution, they must not be qualified to study science.

I guess your interpretation of it is, they're only not qualified to study the life sciences, which misses the point it seems to me. If evolution is like 2+2=4, it's difficult to see why their specialty matters. However, I could post a list consisting entirely of people in the life sciences area, such as Maciej Giertych who I mentioned.

[balrog666]

I guess your interpretation of it is, they're only not qualified to study the life sciences, which misses the point it seems to me. If evolution is like 2+2=4, it's difficult to see why their specialty matters. However, I could post a list consisting entirely of people in the life sciences area, such as Maciej Giertych who I mentioned.

My point is very simple: if I want to build nuclear bombs, I hire physicists (without regard to their religious, creationist, or evolutionary beliefs).

If I want pharmaceutical researchers I hire appropriately qualified biologists, doctors, and chemists (and, yes, I would consider bizarre beliefs, like Young-Earth-Creationism, a proper discriminating factor).

And if I wanted Catholic Creationists (for whatever purposes), I'd hire Maciej Giertych.

Seems pretty simple to me.