Here’s a recent post on Uncommon Descent, which contradicts a great deal of naturalistic and materially scientific propaganda put out by the Darwin religionists!
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I recently watched a PowerPoint presentation that neurosurgeon Michael Egnor gave at Birmingham, Alabama last month on “why we got eugenics.” He said pretty clearly something that I have been driving at for some time:
Evolutionary explanations are merely stories appended to the proximate scientific explanations. They contribute nothing to the scientific understanding of the disease beyond the contribution of the proximate explanations.
Evolutionary stories are ad-hoc and generally untestable guesses, and offer no meaningful framework for science. The proximate explanations anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, molecular biology, genetics, microbiology, etc. are the framework for science.
Strategies for disease treatment and prevention depend on data from the relevant medical sciences, not on speculative stories about origins.
Darwinian medicine is scientifically vacuous, and the Darwinian theory of human origins is the antithesis of human exceptionalism and human dignity.
Of course. The whole concept of evolutionary medicine is a waste of time for a very simple reason:
Medicine can never be a discipline without a subject. Astrobiology can be a discipline without a subject because there are no space aliens to complain that their needs are not attended to. But medicine can’t be a discipline without a subject conventionally, a patient because medicine must offer solutions, not just theories.
“…medicine must offer solutions, not just theories…” Imagine that, a scientific endeavor that must offer solutions (results, progress), as opposed to mere theories (no results, no progress). It sounds like this neurosurgeon has some common sense mixed in with his knowledge.
We spend billions of dollars every year on material science research, which amounts to nothing more than a chasing after the wind: “Dark energy,” “Dark matter,” “Alternate universes,” modern eugenics (genetics, selective breeding, cloning) etc. This wasting of our tax dollars, which could be used for the good of people who need help, is simply, and in reality, nothing more than an attempt to weed out the undesirable “types” of human beings and disprove God!
“because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. 20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. 21 For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22 Professing to be wise, they became fools, 23 and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures… For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen… And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind…” (Romans 1: 19-28) (emphasis mine)
Neurosurgeon: Evolutionary medicine = ad-hoc and untestable guesses | Uncommon Descent.
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