Eugene Volokh has a nice analysis of the issues involved with the professor who won’t write letters of recommendation for Creationists. Now, I’m a pretty religious person, but I find Creationism pretty silly (both logically and religiously). Still, the idea that one’s belief in Creationism would effect their study in medicine is pretty idiotic, and Prof. Michael Dini sounds like an asshole with a chip on his shoulder who is going out of his way to cause conflict.
Rachel Lucas has a picture of a baby brave enough to do what we all have secretly (or sometimes overtly) desired to do.
Combustible Boy has found what Abraham Lincoln’s famous speech would look like today.
I’ve been to the doctor many times for various things over the last 42 years, and I cannot remember a single time that the evolutionary theory played a role in diagnosis or treatment.
I agree with your characterization of Dini. Still, it is his God-given constitutional right to make a complete jackass of himself if he wants to. If he can’t actually block any of his students from going to medical school, I’m not sure the university should do anything about this.
What, exactly, is this mystical force that is the cause of “evolution”? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
Psyc 101 pop quiz: without God man would create one….it is in his nature to do so….you are a sickman freud
Order in all things great and small….chaos is a state of mind, not matter, or anti-matter for that matter.
Science is built on a foundation of human observation, not on mysticysm.
Thank you Frankj
As one who closely follows biological and medical science, it is clear to me that evolutionary reasoning is absolutely critical to those fields. For example, epidemiology and the issue of emergent diseases (one of my interests) uses evolutionary reasoning as the best source of clues for locating hosts and vectors and for understanding drug resistance. Likewise, various evolutionary principles are critical in drug discovery, and in the use of animal models for human disease.
I wish the creationists would separate the belief aspects of the origin of the human soul from the application of the scientific method to issues of biology, including human evolution. Only to a literalist with a specific reading of the Bible is evolution an afront.
As far as “scientific creationism” – the term is an oxymoron. It is nothing other than glossing over creationist theory with the patina of science.
Creationists need to understand one thing: science is not a religion, but rather a method (and associated culture) for attempting to improve man’s understanding of the MATERIAL world. They also need to realize that there are nutty, anti-religious scientists who are not representative of the group as a whole, and there are strongly religious scientists.
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