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http://post-darwinist.blogspot.com/2007/06/darwinism-and-popular-culture-darwinism.html
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Darwinism and popular culture: Darwinism becoming the West's myth,
doctor says
My friend and colleague Deborah Gyapong reports on a recent talk by
Dr. John Patrick, Ottawa pediatrician and retired professor of
medicine, noting that
the "Darwinian myth" is becoming the "ordering myth" for the West,
replacing the Christian story, with potentially disastrous
consequences.
"Who would you rationally trust when we legalize doctor-assisted
suicide?" he asked. "A Darwinist physician or a doctor who believes in
judgment after death?"
Darwin's theories of natural selection, survival of the fittest and of
evolutionary progress are making an impact on health care, even though
Patrick describes the art of medicine as "very anti-Darwinist" in its
care for the sick and the vulnerable. But that is changing as society
becomes "profoundly incoherent," he said.
Patrick was speaking at a conference of Christian medical doctors,
June 3-9 at St. Augustine College in Ottawa. Unfortunately, other
speakers attempted to soothe the audience with tales of some kind of
accommodation with Darwinism, as long as the Darwinists would just
remember that Darwinism is not supposed to be the ordering myth of the
West. Yeah really.
The most interesting aspect of the current aggressive promotion of
evolutionary medicine (Darwinism in medicine and veterinaray
practice ) is its sheer clinical uselessness.
The proclamations are grand, to be sure:
"Nothing in biology makes sense, except in the light of evolution," is
the oft-quoted title of a 1973 article for biology teachers by the
great evolutionary biologist Theodosius Dobzhansky. In it, he writes,
"Seen in the light of evolution, biology is, perhaps, intellectually
the most satisfying and inspiring science. Without that light it
becomes a pile of sundry facts some of them interesting or curious but
making no meaningful picture as a whole."
Evolution's role is equally central in the subset of biology
addressing human health and disease. The co-evolution of humans and
our pathogens, the rapidly shifting resistance of those pathogens to
our antibiotics, and our persistent vulnerability to chronic disease
all gain significance when viewed in the context of continuing
evolution. These subjects form the core of "Darwinian medicine," also
known as "evolutionary medicine."
But how exactly do these ills "gain significance when viewed in the
context of continuing evolution"? For the purpose of counselling and
treatment of the patient in the present day, it hardly matters when
they appeared or who - besides immediate ancestors and sibs, and
people who live nearby - has them.
Consider, for example, an illness for which there is apparently a
genetic predisposition: alcoholism. Fundamentally, the patient has
decisions to make (Will I drink or not? Will I get drunk or not?) What
if Alley Oop had the same problem? What if he didn't?
For that matter, what if there is really no genetic predisposition to
alcoholism? It makes no difference to the patient in the end. He
either drinks or he doesn't, and accepts the consequences.
One could say the same thing about obesity, that other scourge of the
family practitioner's office in prosperous countries everywhere. If
the Willendorf Venus was fat, so what? What if she had been thin? I
doubt that most Stone Age women were as certain of their next meal as
she must have been. But in the end, today's woman decides whether she
wants obesity, along with its problems, or not. And she's the only one
who can really do something about it.
Similarly, with antibiotic resistance (an often-cited passage in the
Gospel According to Darwin), I have it on good authority that the main
cause of the resistance is overprescription (and other overuse) of
antibiotics. We helped the bugs get where they are. We could stop
helping them. But that doesn't mean telling the old, old story of
Darwinism over and over again; it means getting patients to accept
alternative treatments. They will only do that if they can be
persuaded that other approaches work.
I suspect that Darwinian medicine will just go the way of evolutionary
psychology. I wonder how much harm it will do first. |
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| Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 3:11 am Post subject: Re: Darwinism Is Becoming The West's Myth |
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In article <1184364668.472530.193550@i38g2000prf.googlegroups.com> Sound of Trumpet <soundoftrumpet@mailcan.com> writes:
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Am I the only one who finds the juxtposition of paragraph A: |
The most interesting aspect of the current aggressive promotion of
evolutionary medicine (Darwinism in medicine and veterinaray
practice ) is its sheer clinical uselessness.
and paragraph B:
Similarly, with antibiotic resistance (an often-cited passage in the
Gospel According to Darwin), I have it on good authority that the main
cause of the resistance is overprescription (and other overuse) of
antibiotics.
to be kind of...well, telling?
-- cary |
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Cary Kittrell
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| Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 3:11 am Post subject: Re: Darwinism Is Becoming The West's Myth |
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In article <1184367553.952434.23390@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> skyeyes <skyeyes@dakotacom.net> writes:
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On Jul 13, 3:26 pm, c...@afone.as.arizona.edu (Cary Kittrell) wrote:
In article <1184364668.472530.193...@i38g2000prf.googlegroups.com> Sound of Trumpet <soundoftrum...@mailcan.com> writes:
Am I the only one who finds the juxtposition of paragraph A:
The most interesting aspect of the current aggressive promotion of
evolutionary medicine (Darwinism in medicine and veterinaray
practice ) is its sheer clinical uselessness.
and paragraph B:
Similarly, with antibiotic resistance (an often-cited passage in the
Gospel According to Darwin), I have it on good authority that the main
cause of the resistance is overprescription (and other overuse) of
antibiotics.
to be kind of...well, telling?
How SOT can type that (or copy-n-paste it) without his head exploding
is beyond me. ;-
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I always figured he didn't actually READ the things, or just
far enough in to be sure that it was a denunciation of those
of us who Hate All Things Good and Decent.
But in his recent "Why Firefly Is Not Good Science Fiction,
But Heavyweight Atheist Propaganda" thread, he would
have had to read through an incredible amount of
fanboy-geek drivel -- you know, "Could the
Hulk take Superman if Bruce Banner had been
transformed by Kryptonite rathar than gamma rays?"
sort of logorrhea -- to discover the paragraph which mildly
criticized the show for not dealing more with religion.
So I'm now of the opinion that Sound of Trumpet is
actually ... well, have you ever heard of Nicolas Bourbaki?
Bourbaki was an incredibly productive French mathematician
who published a large amount of work in a variety
of mathematical fields -- until it turned out that
"Bourbaki" was actually a pseudonym for a whole group
of mathematicians, publishing under that name.
So me, I figure that "Sound of Trumpet" is actually
a cartel, A whole bunch of STrumpets, busily reading
away, cutting and pasting into the wee hours.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
-- cary |
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| Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 3:11 am Post subject: Re: Darwinism Is Becoming The West's Myth |
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"Mark K. Bilbo" <gmail@com.mkbilbo>
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On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:42:30 -0700, HayekFan wrote:
piggybacking, Squawking Turd is in my killfile
Similarly, with antibiotic resistance (an often-cited passage in the
Gospel According to Darwin), I have it on good authority that the main
cause of the resistance is overprescription (and other overuse) of
antibiotics
Oh damn, do they get any stupider than this?
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Excuse me, but I believe he said he had that on "good authority".
You...you scoffing person, you.
How come no one ever says "I have it on bad authority that..."
or "I have it on the best authority I can afford right through
now" or "I have it on authority that can beat your authority up that..."?
- cary |
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| Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 3:53 am Post subject: Re: Darwinism Is Becoming The West's Myth |
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On Jul 13, 11:11 pm, Sound of Trumpet <soundoftrum...@mailcan.com>
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"Darwinism Is Becoming The West's Myth" - Osama Bin Laden
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IFYPFY. |
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| Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 3:59 am Post subject: Re: Darwinism Is Becoming The West's Myth |
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On Jul 13, 3:26 pm, c...@afone.as.arizona.edu (Cary Kittrell) wrote:
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In article <1184364668.472530.193...@i38g2000prf.googlegroups.com> Sound of Trumpet <soundoftrum...@mailcan.com> writes:
Am I the only one who finds the juxtposition of paragraph A:
The most interesting aspect of the current aggressive promotion of
evolutionary medicine (Darwinism in medicine and veterinaray
practice ) is its sheer clinical uselessness.
and paragraph B:
Similarly, with antibiotic resistance (an often-cited passage in the
Gospel According to Darwin), I have it on good authority that the main
cause of the resistance is overprescription (and other overuse) of
antibiotics.
to be kind of...well, telling?
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How SOT can type that (or copy-n-paste it) without his head exploding
is beyond me. ;->
Brenda Nelson, A.A.#34
EAC Professor of Feline Thermometrics and Cat-Herding
skyeyes at dakotacom dot net |
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| Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 4:02 am Post subject: Re: Darwinism Is Becoming The West's Myth |
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On Jul 14, 7:26 am, c...@afone.as.arizona.edu (Cary Kittrell) wrote:
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Similarly, with antibiotic resistance (an often-cited passage in the
Gospel According to Darwin), I have it on good authority that the main
cause of the resistance is overprescription (and other overuse) of
antibiotics.
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Overprescription isn't in general the problem, the problem is people
dont do as their doctor prescribes, they stop the medication before
its finished killing the bug.
Its a full course of anti-biotics that are required, when the course
is not completed, then the bug only gets a *taste* of its enemy and to
ensure its survival it then builds a defence against it.
Life is like that, because if it wasn't it couldn't be.
Funny, but even religion couldn't survive unless it evolves, its not
that long ago that the christian mystics, Trumpet's ancestors, were
burning the witch-craft mystics alive and its even a shorter time ago
(the late 1800s) that the christian mystics were totally against the
use if anesthesia, because according to the mystics man's purpose in
life was to suffer pain.
Michael Gordge |
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HayekFan
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| Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 4:42 am Post subject: Re: Darwinism Is Becoming The West's Myth |
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On Jul 13, 5:11 pm, Sound of Trumpet <soundoftrum...@mailcan.com>
wrote:
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http://post-darwinist.blogspot.com/2007/06/darwinism-and-popular-cult...
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Darwinism and popular culture: Darwinism becoming the West's myth,
doctor says
My friend and colleague Deborah Gyapong reports on a recent talk by
Dr. John Patrick, Ottawa pediatrician and retired professor of
medicine, noting that
the "Darwinian myth" is becoming the "ordering myth" for the West,
replacing the Christian story, with potentially disastrous
consequences.
"Who would you rationally trust when we legalize doctor-assisted
suicide?" he asked. "A Darwinist physician or a doctor who believes in
judgment after death?"
Darwin's theories of natural selection, survival of the fittest and of
evolutionary progress are making an impact on health care, even though
Patrick describes the art of medicine as "very anti-Darwinist" in its
care for the sick and the vulnerable. But that is changing as society
becomes "profoundly incoherent," he said.
Patrick was speaking at a conference of Christian medical doctors,
June 3-9 at St. Augustine College in Ottawa. Unfortunately, other
speakers attempted to soothe the audience with tales of some kind of
accommodation with Darwinism, as long as the Darwinists would just
remember that Darwinism is not supposed to be the ordering myth of the
West. Yeah really.
The most interesting aspect of the current aggressive promotion of
evolutionary medicine (Darwinism in medicine and veterinaray
practice ) is its sheer clinical uselessness.
The proclamations are grand, to be sure:
"Nothing in biology makes sense, except in the light of evolution," is
the oft-quoted title of a 1973 article for biology teachers by the
great evolutionary biologist Theodosius Dobzhansky. In it, he writes,
"Seen in the light of evolution, biology is, perhaps, intellectually
the most satisfying and inspiring science. Without that light it
becomes a pile of sundry facts some of them interesting or curious but
making no meaningful picture as a whole."
Evolution's role is equally central in the subset of biology
addressing human health and disease. The co-evolution of humans and
our pathogens, the rapidly shifting resistance of those pathogens to
our antibiotics, and our persistent vulnerability to chronic disease
all gain significance when viewed in the context of continuing
evolution. These subjects form the core of "Darwinian medicine," also
known as "evolutionary medicine."
But how exactly do these ills "gain significance when viewed in the
context of continuing evolution"? For the purpose of counselling and
treatment of the patient in the present day, it hardly matters when
they appeared or who - besides immediate ancestors and sibs, and
people who live nearby - has them.
Consider, for example, an illness for which there is apparently a
genetic predisposition: alcoholism. Fundamentally, the patient has
decisions to make (Will I drink or not? Will I get drunk or not?) What
if Alley Oop had the same problem? What if he didn't?
For that matter, what if there is really no genetic predisposition to
alcoholism? It makes no difference to the patient in the end. He
either drinks or he doesn't, and accepts the consequences.
One could say the same thing about obesity, that other scourge of the
family practitioner's office in prosperous countries everywhere. If
the Willendorf Venus was fat, so what? What if she had been thin? I
doubt that most Stone Age women were as certain of their next meal as
she must have been. But in the end, today's woman decides whether she
wants obesity, along with its problems, or not. And she's the only one
who can really do something about it.
Similarly, with antibiotic resistance (an often-cited passage in the
Gospel According to Darwin), I have it on good authority that the main
cause of the resistance is overprescription (and other overuse) of
antibiotics. We helped the bugs get where they are. We could stop
helping them. But that doesn't mean telling the old, old story of
Darwinism over and over again; it means getting patients to accept
alternative treatments. They will only do that if they can be
persuaded that other approaches work.
I suspect that Darwinian medicine will just go the way of evolutionary
psychology. I wonder how much harm it will do first.
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Quit confusing biological evolution with cultural evolution.
Human medical science is an example of cultural evolution in action,
not Darwinism. |
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| Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 5:58 am Post subject: Re: Darwinism Is Becoming The West's Myth |
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On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:42:30 -0700, HayekFan wrote:
<piggybacking, Squawking Turd is in my killfile>
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Similarly, with antibiotic resistance (an often-cited passage in the
Gospel According to Darwin), I have it on good authority that the main
cause of the resistance is overprescription (and other overuse) of
antibiotics
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Oh damn, do they get any stupider than this?
--
Mark K. Bilbo a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
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"You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards,
witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, food falling
from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical,
absurd and primitive stories, and you say that *we* are the
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| Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 5:59 am Post subject: Re: Darwinism Is Becoming The West's Myth |
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On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:59:13 -0700, skyeyes wrote:
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On Jul 13, 3:26 pm, c...@afone.as.arizona.edu (Cary Kittrell) wrote:
In article <1184364668.472530.193...@i38g2000prf.googlegroups.com
Sound of Trumpet <soundoftrum...@mailcan.com> writes:
Am I the only one who finds the juxtposition of paragraph A:
The most interesting aspect of the current aggressive promotion of
evolutionary medicine (Darwinism in medicine and veterinaray
practice ) is its sheer clinical uselessness.
and paragraph B:
Similarly, with antibiotic resistance (an often-cited passage in
the Gospel According to Darwin), I have it on good authority that
the main cause of the resistance is overprescription (and other
overuse) of antibiotics.
to be kind of...well, telling?
How SOT can type that (or copy-n-paste it) without his head exploding is
beyond me. ;-
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Oh, there's nothing in it...
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Mark K. Bilbo a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
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| Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 6:23 am Post subject: Re: Darwinism Is Becoming The West's Myth |
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On Jul 13, 11:11 pm, Sound off Muppet <soundoftrum...@mailcan.com>
wrote:
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http://post-darwinist.blogspot.com/2007/06/darwinism-and-popular-cult...
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Darwinism and popular culture: Darwinism becoming the West's myth,
doctor says
My friend and colleague Deborah Gyapong reports on a recent talk by
Dr. John Patrick, Ottawa pediatrician and retired professor of
medicine, noting that
the "Darwinian myth" is becoming the "ordering myth" for the West,
replacing the Christian story, with potentially disastrous
consequences.
"Who would you rationally trust when we legalize doctor-assisted
suicide?" he asked. "A Darwinist physician or a doctor who believes in
judgment after death?"
Darwin's theories of natural selection, survival of the fittest and of
evolutionary progress are making an impact on health care, even though
Patrick describes the art of medicine as "very anti-Darwinist" in its
care for the sick and the vulnerable. But that is changing as society
becomes "profoundly incoherent," he said.
Patrick was speaking at a conference of Christian medical doctors,
June 3-9 at St. Augustine College in Ottawa. Unfortunately, other
speakers attempted to soothe the audience with tales of some kind of
accommodation with Darwinism, as long as the Darwinists would just
remember that Darwinism is not supposed to be the ordering myth of the
West. Yeah really.
The most interesting aspect of the current aggressive promotion of
evolutionary medicine (Darwinism in medicine and veterinaray
practice ) is its sheer clinical uselessness.
The proclamations are grand, to be sure:
"Nothing in biology makes sense, except in the light of evolution," is
the oft-quoted title of a 1973 article for biology teachers by the
great evolutionary biologist Theodosius Dobzhansky. In it, he writes,
"Seen in the light of evolution, biology is, perhaps, intellectually
the most satisfying and inspiring science. Without that light it
becomes a pile of sundry facts some of them interesting or curious but
making no meaningful picture as a whole."
Evolution's role is equally central in the subset of biology
addressing human health and disease. The co-evolution of humans and
our pathogens, the rapidly shifting resistance of those pathogens to
our antibiotics, and our persistent vulnerability to chronic disease
all gain significance when viewed in the context of continuing
evolution. These subjects form the core of "Darwinian medicine," also
known as "evolutionary medicine."
But how exactly do these ills "gain significance when viewed in the
context of continuing evolution"? For the purpose of counselling and
treatment of the patient in the present day, it hardly matters when
they appeared or who - besides immediate ancestors and sibs, and
people who live nearby - has them.
Consider, for example, an illness for which there is apparently a
genetic predisposition: alcoholism. Fundamentally, the patient has
decisions to make (Will I drink or not? Will I get drunk or not?) What
if Alley Oop had the same problem? What if he didn't?
For that matter, what if there is really no genetic predisposition to
alcoholism? It makes no difference to the patient in the end. He
either drinks or he doesn't, and accepts the consequences.
One could say the same thing about obesity, that other scourge of the
family practitioner's office in prosperous countries everywhere. If
the Willendorf Venus was fat, so what? What if she had been thin? I
doubt that most Stone Age women were as certain of their next meal as
she must have been. But in the end, today's woman decides whether she
wants obesity, along with its problems, or not. And she's the only one
who can really do something about it.
Similarly, with antibiotic resistance (an often-cited passage in the
Gospel According to Darwin), I have it on good authority that the main
cause of the resistance is overprescription (and other overuse) of
antibiotics. We helped the bugs get where they are. We could stop
helping them. But that doesn't mean telling the old, old story of
Darwinism over and over again; it means getting patients to accept
alternative treatments. They will only do that if they can be
persuaded that other approaches work.
I suspect that Darwinian medicine will just go the way of evolutionary
psychology. I wonder how much harm it will do first.
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Fuck off and die you speciesist bollocks.
"I am in favour of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the
way of a whole human being". (Abraham Lincoln). |
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| Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 6:41 am Post subject: Re: Darwinism Is Becoming The West's Myth |
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Last time that great scribe Sound of Trumpet
<soundoftrumpet@mailcan.com> chipped away at his/her stone these gems of
wisdom for posterity ...
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I have it on good authority that the main
cause of the resistance is overprescription (and other overuse) of
antibiotics.
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I have it on good authority that the main cause of long necked giraffes
was the over prescription of very tall branches.
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Remove both YOUR_SHOES before replying
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Jason Gastrich is praying for me on 8 January 2009
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| Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 6:57 am Post subject: Re: Darwinism Is Becoming The West's Myth |
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On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:58:18 -0500, "Mark K. Bilbo"
<gmail@com.mkbilbo> wrote:
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On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:42:30 -0700, HayekFan wrote:
piggybacking, Squawking Turd is in my killfile
Similarly, with antibiotic resistance (an often-cited passage in the
Gospel According to Darwin), I have it on good authority that the main
cause of the resistance is overprescription (and other overuse) of
antibiotics
Oh damn, do they get any stupider than this?
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If you need to ask, you haven't heard from very many of them.
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| Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 7:22 am Post subject: Re: Darwinism Is Becoming The West's Myth |
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On Jul 14, 6:11 am, Sound of Trumpet <soundoftrum...@mailcan.com>
wrote:
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http://post-darwinist.blogspot.com/2007/06/darwinism-and-popular-cult...
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Darwinism and popular culture: Darwinism becoming the West's myth,
doctor says
My friend and colleague Deborah Gyapong reports on a recent talk by
Dr. John Patrick, Ottawa pediatrician and retired professor of
medicine, noting that
the "Darwinian myth" is becoming the "ordering myth" for the West,
replacing the Christian story, with potentially disastrous
consequences.
"Who would you rationally trust when we legalize doctor-assisted
suicide?" he asked. "A Darwinist physician or a doctor who believes in
judgment after death?"
Darwin's theories of natural selection, survival of the fittest and of
evolutionary progress are making an impact on health care, even though
Patrick describes the art of medicine as "very anti-Darwinist" in its
care for the sick and the vulnerable. But that is changing as society
becomes "profoundly incoherent," he said.
Patrick was speaking at a conference of Christian medical doctors,
June 3-9 at St. Augustine College in Ottawa. Unfortunately, other
speakers attempted to soothe the audience with tales of some kind of
accommodation with Darwinism, as long as the Darwinists would just
remember that Darwinism is not supposed to be the ordering myth of the
West. Yeah really.
The most interesting aspect of the current aggressive promotion of
evolutionary medicine (Darwinism in medicine and veterinaray
practice ) is its sheer clinical uselessness.
The proclamations are grand, to be sure:
"Nothing in biology makes sense, except in the light of evolution," is
the oft-quoted title of a 1973 article for biology teachers by the
great evolutionary biologist Theodosius Dobzhansky. In it, he writes,
"Seen in the light of evolution, biology is, perhaps, intellectually
the most satisfying and inspiring science. Without that light it
becomes a pile of sundry facts some of them interesting or curious but
making no meaningful picture as a whole."
Evolution's role is equally central in the subset of biology
addressing human health and disease. The co-evolution of humans and
our pathogens, the rapidly shifting resistance of those pathogens to
our antibiotics, and our persistent vulnerability to chronic disease
all gain significance when viewed in the context of continuing
evolution. These subjects form the core of "Darwinian medicine," also
known as "evolutionary medicine."
But how exactly do these ills "gain significance when viewed in the
context of continuing evolution"? For the purpose of counselling and
treatment of the patient in the present day, it hardly matters when
they appeared or who - besides immediate ancestors and sibs, and
people who live nearby - has them.
Consider, for example, an illness for which there is apparently a
genetic predisposition: alcoholism. Fundamentally, the patient has
decisions to make (Will I drink or not? Will I get drunk or not?) What
if Alley Oop had the same problem? What if he didn't?
For that matter, what if there is really no genetic predisposition to
alcoholism? It makes no difference to the patient in the end. He
either drinks or he doesn't, and accepts the consequences.
One could say the same thing about obesity, that other scourge of the
family practitioner's office in prosperous countries everywhere. If
the Willendorf Venus was fat, so what? What if she had been thin? I
doubt that most Stone Age women were as certain of their next meal as
she must have been. But in the end, today's woman decides whether she
wants obesity, along with its problems, or not. And she's the only one
who can really do something about it.
Similarly, with antibiotic resistance (an often-cited passage in the
Gospel According to Darwin), I have it on good authority that the main
cause of the resistance is overprescription (and other overuse) of
antibiotics. We helped the bugs get where they are. We could stop
helping them. But that doesn't mean telling the old, old story of
Darwinism over and over again; it means getting patients to accept
alternative treatments. They will only do that if they can be
persuaded that other approaches work.
I suspect that Darwinian medicine will just go the way of evolutionary
psychology. I wonder how much harm it will do first.
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Darwinism is what this world is all about.
Physical contribution by many scientists in many many field help to
provide comfort, medicine, food, shelter, and millions of other useful
things for human.
Your god is not there to contribute a single thing and yet you want to
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| Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 7:39 am Post subject: Re: Darwinism Is Becoming The West's Myth |
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On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:58:18 -0500, "Mark K. Bilbo"
<gmail@com.mkbilbo> wrote:
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On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:42:30 -0700, HayekFan wrote:
piggybacking, Squawking Turd is in my killfile
Similarly, with antibiotic resistance (an often-cited passage in the
Gospel According to Darwin), I have it on good authority that the main
cause of the resistance is overprescription (and other overuse) of
antibiotics
Oh damn, do they get any stupider than this?
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