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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.

In article <1184364668.472530.193550@i38g2000prf.googlegroups.com> Sound of Trumpet 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?

-- cary

On Jul 13, 11:11 pm, Sound of Trumpet mailcan.com>
wrote:

IFYPFY.

On Jul 13, 3:26 pm, c...@afone.as.arizona.edu (Cary Kittrell) wrote:

How SOT can type that (or copy-n-paste it) without his head exploding
is beyond me. ;->

On Jul 14, 7:26 am, c...@afone.as.arizona.edu (Cary Kittrell) wrote:

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

In article <1184367553.952434.23390@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> skyeyes dakotacom.net> writes:

On Jul 13, 5:11 pm, Sound of Trumpet mailcan.com>
wrote:

On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:42:30 -0700, HayekFan wrote:

Oh damn, do they get any stupider than this?

--
Mark K. Bilbo a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion

On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:59:13 -0700, skyeyes wrote:

On Jul 13, 11:11 pm, Sound off Muppet mailcan.com>
wrote: