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- Embed this notice@jeffcliff @gorskon I read about half of this, and here's a good example of why this blog post is silly and not saying anything:
>poor understanding of evolution among medical students is becoming increasingly a problem.
Why? The practice of medicine has basically nothing to do with evolutionary biology. Systems and biochemical feedback loops, sure. Knowing the similarities of those across multiple species is irrelevant for anyone who isn't a veterinarian or regularly dealing with animal bites (in which case you phone a friend or consult a reference manual).
He spends the first 10% of the blog talking about how the guy is probably a very talented doctor before he switches tone towards bashing him for not being on board with darwinism (he also criticized the use of the phrase). That doc used an update of the IRREDUCIBLE COMPLEXITY argument isn't my favorite, but not unreasonable given it's functionally a gish gallop— lay out your evidence against my claim in great detail so that I may pick it apart. But ID can absolutely be scientific, and there's actually a movement of people interested in specifically that. Testable alternative hypothesis should be explored. Anything else isn't science.