Doctors need to understand evolution to understand pathogens. Why, yes, they do! As Artor explained above, microbes change genetically (OMG…natural selection….eeeevilution! OMG!) magnitudes of order faster than larger organisms. This both presents a challenge for treatment (antibiotic resistance – ever hear of it?) as well as overwhelming evidence of natural selection right before our microscopes. Any doctor who didn’t acknowledge that would be laughed out of the lab. Physicians who continue to over-prescribe antibiotics increase their patients’ risk of developing dangerous, well-nigh untreatable infections (MRSA, VRE, MDR-TB for starters; feel free to Google these). Streptococci don’t give a shit about your prayers as they feast on your flesh; they don’t even care how many of their brethren die in the ensuing flood of antibiotics. If even one of them is genetically distinct enough to survive, that’s all it takes. Stuff that in your Jesus pipe and smoke it.
OH, and please enlighten me on just what about creationism can be empirically demonstrated. I’m waiting….

As per usual, the irony is staggering.

And Lindsay, you know perfectly well that God allowed the Devil to plant those fossils to test our faith.

If you choose to remain willfully ignorant, then you are right, no scientist can change your mind. No scientist should waste his time trying; they have better things to do, like studying evolutionary theory to see how it can describe more & more accurately the evidence all around us.

Just because something is unexplained doesn’t mean there is a supernatural answer. It’s lazy intellect to not seek answers and assume it must be Gods will. Should a doctor who hasn’t come to a diagnosis on an ailing patient just throw up his hands and say “I don’t know what is making you sick…I give-up Goddidit.”

Another fact you might want to research before posting your quote mines is to read my comment policy. Discussion is fine. Bombing the site with out-of-context quotes isn’t.

Of all the people I disagree with, the only ones I flame are those whose tiny minds are sealed shut, unwilling to look at data or listen to reason.

This very article disproves your point. I presented data that most of the people on the list are not scientists, and you rejected my argument. You might want to actually pay attention to evidence for once, instead of just “knowing” the “truth”.

If you want to be taken seriously, you’re going to have to do better than blindly following those buffoons on your web site. Come back when you learn what a fact is.

Closed minds are never open to new truths.

Please. Rush Limbaugh? Glenn Beck? You’re an idiot.

Go back to your insular world where they’ll keep telling you precisely what you want to hear.

Of course, that’s assuming you’re looking at the word ‘Scientist’ as a definition of a profession, vocation, or avocation, not a defintion of a certain level of education or a job title.

Even if you are, just because you’re a scientist doesn’t mean that you’re credible.