Biology Professor Refuses to Recommend Students Who Don't Believe in Evolution

Texas Tech ^ | January 29, 2003 | Michael Dini

[matthew_the_brain]

. So much physical evidence supports the evolution of humans from non-human ancestors that one can validly refer to the "fact" of human evolution, even if all of the details are not yet known

[matthew_the_brain]

Freep this clown


michael.dini@ttacs.ttu.edu

[eshu]

Astronomy Professor Refuses to Recommend Students Who Don't Believe in Solar System

[matthew_the_brain]

how coy, and not at all analogous........plenty of visual proof of the solar system, no visual proof of us evolving from a pool of slime.....unless you folks have a Zapruder film now documenting it?

[NativeNewYorker]

Would you recommend someone for the clergy if they didn't believe in G-d or Christ?

[Blood of Tyrants]

First, don't waste your time with this bozo. He is a liberal and anti-Christian.

Why is the belief in evolution necessary to be a doctor? A good doctor treats the physical, mental, and spiritual being. It has also been proven that prayer is a powerful healing agent for ill patients.

IMHO, the lack of "treatment" of the spirtual being inside every one of us is the major cause of crime in the world.

[stanz]

So what if he is a liberal and an anti-Christian (which you have no proof of). He's a scientist who has to vouch for future scientists. That's the only criterion here.

[Blood of Tyrants]

I ask again, why is the belief in evolution necessary to be a doctor? People are NOT going to evolve over the life of the doctor (or even 1000 lifetimes).

[AzSteven]

how coy, and not at all analogous........plenty of visual proof of the solar system, no visual proof of us evolving from a pool of slime.....unless you folks have a Zapruder film now documenting it?

Is that the one that shows a mysterious flash of light from the grassy knoll, said to be Darwin observing the slime pool though his binoculars?

[Blood of Tyrants]

The vast majority of medical doctors are not so much as "scientists" as mechanics for the human body. You study the symptoms, make test measurements, come up with possible diagnoses, select the most probably, and then treat accordingly.

AGAIN: Why is the belief in evolution necessary to be a doctor? Humans are not going to evolve in the doctor's lifetime and he won't be required to treat a "pre-human".

[Dimensio]

That's not quite an accurate parallel. It would be more like an astronomy professor refusing to recommend students who refuse to accept a heliocentric solar system.

[ml/nj]

I guess this guy wouldn't like me very much.

But I have a very short argument that I present as contradiction to evolution. When I made this argument to a professor at UVa this past fall when I visited there, he was speechless (and the student who was listening sort of stood there silently with his eyes bulging out of their sockets). I really wondered if he was going to keep teaching the class the following week.

ML/NJ

[Dimensio]

Well there is the whole problem of how bacteria cultures reproduce quickly enough to 'evolve' in a matter of months. Someone who understands the selective pressure created on bacteria when antibiotics are introduced into their environment might be more likely to administer them responsibly.

[Schnucki]

Would you recommend someone for the clergy if they didn't believe in G-d or Christ?

I don't get it. It's the evolutionists who have rejected science.

[stanz]

He finds it necessary I suppose because he espouses this view and feels that anyone seeking his recommendation should be in agreement. Why would he want to recommend someone who would be at odds with evolution which is a biological discipline?

[Dimensio]

A good doctor treats the physical, mental, and spiritual being. It has also been proven that prayer is a powerful healing agent for ill patients.

Is there any specific god to which appropriate prayers are addressed, or do prayers to any god work?

[labowski]

Well, I'll be a monkeys Uncle..............................

[Dimensio]

It's the evolutionists who have rejected science.

When in doubt, rely on intellectually bankrupt arguments like 'evolution is not science'.

[Hodar]

People are NOT going to evolve over the life of the doctor (or even 1000 lifetimes).

Untrue. Asians typically had an average height of 5'2 or less for hundreds of years. Within the past generation the AVERAGE height has increased by 6 inches. This is a change that is sustained and continuous. This is largely due to diet, but as studies have shown, change occurs. Domesticated cat brains are smaller today than there were 75 years ago. Cats USED to hunt mice for food. Now they are kept in apartments and fed from the can. They no longer need the brain capacity they once did. Bottom line is that we are changing, slowly; but we are changing nonetheless. It's measureable, it's quantifiable and it's factual.

[Dimensio]

But I have a very short argument that I present as contradiction to evolution.

Well...let's hear it.