Oh how I hate "Intelligent Design"
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lab_gripes about a THIRD YEAR MED STUDENT who tries, and utterly fails, to argue rationally in favor of Intelligent Design. The OP points out how sad it is that our schools are producing DOCTORS whose thinking is so shamefully unscientific.
Here's the reply I posted, starting with a quote from the ID dumbass (the bit about dogs refers to the dumbass' argument that when you breed dogs, they lose something, for example a chihuahua has lost the ability to be big and a Great Dane has lost the ability to have curly hair. I'm not kidding):
BUT: When DNA mutates, it generally loses information.
"Loses information?" What the fuck does that even mean? So the default dog is big and has curly hair? What if you breed a dog to have extra-curly hair? Then it's lost the ability to have just sort-of-curly hair? Has this asshole ever bothered to crack open a genetics textbook? No, that's right, he didn't have to because he spent four years as an undergrad memorizing what the professors said so he could spit it back out on the final and then promptly forget it, when he wasn't too busy being condescending to the real molecular biology students who actually had to, y'know, understand the material.
Goddamn fucking medical schools, with their total lack of evolutionary biology requirements. This is the whole problem with the medical industry right here (well, aside from all the misogyny, racism, fat-phobia and money-grubbing): they actively separate Medicine from Biology. This is how we get to the point where DOCTORS are prescribing antibiotics for the flu and telling people that birth control pills "kill babies." Fuck them.
In another post, the med student talks about how she (I'd incorrectly assumed in my reply that the dumbass was male) needs to try and convert a Muslim classmate to Christianity. She gives herself a list of things to do to help her with it and number two is to avoid cold logic and focus on sins and Heaven and shit. Right, because if there's one thing doctors ought to avoid like the plague, it's logic.
ETA: Not that I'm saying a scientist can't be religious. The first internship I had, the professor I worked for was Catholic and he was a good scientist. I'm saying a) Intelligent Design has nothing to do with science and b) harassing other people by trying to convert them to your religion is an assholish thing to do.
lab_gripes about a THIRD YEAR MED STUDENT who tries, and utterly fails, to argue rationally in favor of Intelligent Design. The OP points out how sad it is that our schools are producing DOCTORS whose thinking is so shamefully unscientific.Here's the reply I posted, starting with a quote from the ID dumbass (the bit about dogs refers to the dumbass' argument that when you breed dogs, they lose something, for example a chihuahua has lost the ability to be big and a Great Dane has lost the ability to have curly hair. I'm not kidding):
BUT: When DNA mutates, it generally loses information.
"Loses information?" What the fuck does that even mean? So the default dog is big and has curly hair? What if you breed a dog to have extra-curly hair? Then it's lost the ability to have just sort-of-curly hair? Has this asshole ever bothered to crack open a genetics textbook? No, that's right, he didn't have to because he spent four years as an undergrad memorizing what the professors said so he could spit it back out on the final and then promptly forget it, when he wasn't too busy being condescending to the real molecular biology students who actually had to, y'know, understand the material.
Goddamn fucking medical schools, with their total lack of evolutionary biology requirements. This is the whole problem with the medical industry right here (well, aside from all the misogyny, racism, fat-phobia and money-grubbing): they actively separate Medicine from Biology. This is how we get to the point where DOCTORS are prescribing antibiotics for the flu and telling people that birth control pills "kill babies." Fuck them.
In another post, the med student talks about how she (I'd incorrectly assumed in my reply that the dumbass was male) needs to try and convert a Muslim classmate to Christianity. She gives herself a list of things to do to help her with it and number two is to avoid cold logic and focus on sins and Heaven and shit. Right, because if there's one thing doctors ought to avoid like the plague, it's logic.
ETA: Not that I'm saying a scientist can't be religious. The first internship I had, the professor I worked for was Catholic and he was a good scientist. I'm saying a) Intelligent Design has nothing to do with science and b) harassing other people by trying to convert them to your religion is an assholish thing to do.
