Should people that claim evolution doesn’t exist not receive the proper drugs based on these beliefs? Just like I wouldn’t want to cure my own cancer if I found out I could, if I had three children killed. That just doesn’t fall in line with my beliefs. Hmmm…would making people pick drugs based on their beliefs be like “unnatural” natural selection?
I know we all make choices based on our beliefs (religious or other). What choices do we make in spite of our beliefs?
Doonesbury Cartoon on Creationists
From: http://unreasonablefaith.com/2008/08/05/the-creationist-medical-dilemma/
Thanks to David Rothman via FriendFeed
The rain falls on the just and the unjust alike. Evolution works on the person who understands science and the creationist, alike.
Some thoughts.
The bug is essentialy the same bug.
It is simple probability that one in a million happen to have some difference at the genetic level that by nature enhance its resistance to a certain chemical element.
Those who don’t are swapped out for the most part and the resistant ones multiply. That is not evolution.
The bug did not “developed” resistance.
Darwin never said that humans evolved from the ape.
What he said is that we have a common ancestor (so human evolution is a much more complex process because it involves natural selection and artificial development (humans as a species that can generate conditions to improve its ability to prosper).
What makes us think it’s impossible that those genetic changes may be built into the design from the start of life?