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Would you refuse treatment from an ophthalmologist who believed: 1. The seasons are caused by Earth approaching and receding from the Sun? 2. Fixed-wing aircr
by kd0amg 16y ago
Would you refuse treatment from an ophthalmologist who believed:
1. The seasons are caused by Earth approaching and receding from the Sun?
2. Fixed-wing aircraft fly because air moves over and under the wing at the same rate?
3. Thomas Edison invented the light bulb?
People generally expect a physician of any specialty to have a solid grounding in biology. The first two are cases of ignorance of physics; the third is of history. As such, you'll likely find more people willing to accept a physician's ignorance of them (more so the third, which is a matter of history, than the first two, which are about physics).
- jmillikin 16y agoYoung-Earth creationism is ignorance of physics, not biology. If Earth were created 6000 years ago, then there has not been enough time for evolutionary pressure to significantly alter the human genome yet. It's entirely reasonable for a YEC to believe in evolution, while simultaneously believing the current forms of most species are not the result of evolution. Ignorance of biology gives rise to complete denial of evolution, which is a separate belief.
- kd0amg 16y agoYoung-Earth creationism is ignorance of physics, not biology. And you'll find a lot less objection to YEC physicians than to stork-theorist physicians (remember, the example Dawkins started with, and the one you quoted).
- iloveponies 16y agoUnrelated, of anyone in medicine, I think the only requirement I have of them is to believe in and uphold Hippocratic Oath and not let their personal beliefs interfere with performing their job or the oath. This example used, that of a person you would as a patient demand trust from more than a scientist (like an astronomer) is questionable fear mongering.
- pbhjpbhj 16y ago>I think the only requirement I have of them is to believe in and uphold Hippocratic Oath Have you read it? [In translation] "I swear by Apollo, the healer, Asclepius, Hygieia, and Panacea, and I take to witness all the gods, all the goddesses, to keep according to my ability and my judgment, the following Oath and agreement: " Also no injected drugs to cause death or abortion might be a bar to some doctors.
- iloveponies 16y agoI know of nobody who has not be sworn under any version except for the modern version, which makes no references to Greek mythology.
- bugsy 16y agoYou speak of ignorance. I don't think this theoretical ophthalmologist is ignorant of descent of man theory, nor does he deny that populations of bacteria will develop resistance to antibiotics, nor does he deny that ape and man, like man and pig, aren't similar enough that some kinds of transplants are possible. To say that his theorized skepticism towards descent of man theory would detrimentally affect his work one would have to say how this would occur. It what situations do either skepticism or belief in descent of man theory affect ophthalmology. That has not been established.