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To: orionblamblam
Same thing a rejection of the "astrology" and "humours" theories of disease do. A doctor who rejects science.... not a good doctor.

First of all, medicine is as much art as science. Very little of what a practicing physician does is affected one way or the other by the theory of evolution. Surgeons, for instance, learn their specialty by doing surgery, not by studying evolutionary biology.

Second, I am not convinced that a belief in Intelligent Design is necessarily a rejection of science. (Young-earth creationism is another matter—it is both bad science and bad theology.) Neither evolution nor ID are relevant to the physical sciences: a person could accept ID and still do excellent work in astronomy, chemistry, physics, or geology. Even in some biological fields, evolution is not a big issue.

43 posted on 10/28/2005 3:13:37 PM PDT by Logophile
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To: Logophile

> Very little of what a practicing physician does is affected one way or the other by the theory of evolution.

But a rejection of science leads to bad doctoring. I would be as leery of a surgeon who believed that the moon was made of green cheese as of one who rejected 150 years of biology, chemistry, physics and geology.


108 posted on 10/28/2005 5:15:36 PM PDT by orionblamblam ("You're the poster boy for what ID would turn out if it were taught in our schools." VadeRetro)
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