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But specifically, what problems could be caused by a doctor who successfully completed the required coursework, et al, but who did not believe in evolution?

You're asking the wrong person. I said this was an issue for the Med. School admissions committee, not a scientist writing a recommendation. Contrary to Gore 3000, who believes atheists can't be doctors (!), I'm not at all sure what, beyond anatomy, physiology and pharmacology, an MD needs to know. An MD when practising medicine is not a scientist, IMO his relationship to biology is like an engineer's relationship to physics. An engineer can believe the earth is flat and still be a competent engineer.

My greater concern would be that if a potential student adopts a Weltanschaung that is antithetical to reason and science, what other problems does he have?

Posted by f.Christian to All
On News/Activism Oct 8 2:43 AM #81 of 180

To: Dimensio
As I see it, evolution is an ideological doctrine. If it were only a "scientific theory", it would have died a natural death 50 - 70 years ago; the evidence against it is too overwhelming and has been all along. The people defending it are doing so because they do not like the alternatives to an atheistic basis for science and do not like the logical implications of abandoning their atheistic paradigm and, in conducting themselves that way, they have achieved a degree of immunity to what most people call logic.

488 posted on 7/29/02 5:18 AM Pacific by medved

Main Entry: log·ic

Pronunciation: 'lä-jik Function: noun

Etymology: Middle English logik, from Middle French logique, from Latin logica, from Greek logikE, from feminine of logikos of reason, from logos reason -- more at LEGEND

Date: 12th century

1 a

(1) : a science that deals with the principles and criteria of validity of inference and demonstration : the science of the formal principles of reasoning

(2) : a branch or variety of logic

(3) : a branch of semiotic; especially : SYNTACTICS

(4) : the formal principles of a branch of knowledge

b (1) : a particular mode of reasoning viewed as valid or faulty

(2) : RELEVANCE, PROPRIETY

c : interrelation or sequence of facts or events when seen as inevitable or predictable

d : the arrangement of circuit elements (as in a computer) needed for computation; also : the circuits themselves

2 : something that forces a decision apart from or in opposition to reason < the logic of war >

- lo·gi·cian /lO-'ji-sh&n/ noun

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