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Most Doctors (and all lawyers) are just technicians
in their fields.
They cannot be truly said to have a scientific
approach and are net consumers of knowledge, not generators.
This is the only way to explain "creationist"
medical practitioners.
The fact that someone has a degree in a Medical
field is improperly used by creationists as an appeal to authority.
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Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 10:57
PM
Subject: paleonet Doctors and
Evolution
Funny isn't it that any doctor would be
an anti-evolutionist, given that in some respects they are on the front-line
evolutionary battles with bacteria, HIV, malaria, and other diseases that
literally are naturally selected by the very drugs that doctors apply right in
front of their own noses. I am very sorry that I did not emphasize even
more this relevance to my Biology 1 class of 650 students, of whom about 90%
must be pre-meds. I am depressed by this, but I guess not
surprised. We, or at least I, will have to do a much better job
with evolution, selection, and the medical condition of the world.
Sad.
Anyone else deal with this problem in classes?
Must be a world-wide problem. Let's get an evolutionary biologist
(or paleobiologist even better] in every med school!
The new www.evolution.berkeley.edu site for teachers deals a bit
with this. [Although sponsored by Berkeley, I didn't have anything to do
with it, but it did win a couple of prizes lately, so must be worth a look for
teachers of evolution.]
Jere
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