Teaching Evolutionary Medicine is Worthless

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Everyone has a worldview, even if they have not spelled it out succinctly. It involves how they view life, what is important, morality, life and death, and all that good stuff. Descent with modifications is more than academic and scientific parlor talk, it is a worldview. Although evolution fails many tests, people presuppose that it is true and must be a part of their decision making processes.

Some physicians have their spleens in a twist because they insist there should be more Darwinism taught in medical school. That should prompt cries of outrage because evolutionary thinking in medical science has actually been harmful, not helpful (see "Evolutionary Thinking Wrecks Modern Medicine"). Yanking out tonsils, adenoids, and downplaying the appendix may have been profitable, but if those doctors had bothered to think that the Creator put things in their places for a reason, patients would have been much better off.

So, why isn't evolution taught very much in medical schools? Because it's worthless! Darwin's Flying Monkeys™ policing the internet ridicule creationists and say that evolution is absolutely essential to medical science, and that is how medicine is developed. Not a chance, Chauncey. Their presuppositions, and the desire of those who want more evolution taught, collide with reality.

A claim often repeated in the media is that evolution can inform the field of medicine. This idea was inspired by the famous and widely quoted statement by evolutionary biologist Theodosius Dobzhansky that “Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.” Dobzhansky elaborated, claiming that “If the living world has not arisen from common ancestors by means of an evolutionary process, then the fundamental unity of living things is a hoax and their diversity is a joke.”


For this reason, evolutionists would expect that, since medicine is a branch of the biological sciences, Dobzhansky’s maxim would also be true in medicine. In 2012, Professor A. Vark applied it thus: “Nothing in medicine makes sense, except in the light of evolution.”

To learn the truth that Darwinists try to obscure, see "Evolutionary Medicine: Help or Hindrance?"