Why Is There A Conflict Between Science and Christianity?

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Which goes to show that not believing in a theory with zero real world applications means you can still do your work.
 
Which is strange, as evolution is the foundational theory behind medical science.
 
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Which is strange, as evolution is the foundational theory behind medical science.
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D’ya think so?
Most of the earliest theories revolved around balance, like wet/dry or hot/cold.
We’ve moved onto the germ theory of illness, but that only covers some disease.
But if you mean biology covers medicine and evolution, I can see what you’re driving at.
But you can still run a Code or treat high blood pressure without buying in to evolution.
 
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Which is strange, as evolution is the foundational theory behind medical science.
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Well, at the very least, a nurse doesn’t need to know that. They’re not the ones doing the research. It’s entirely possible that they get through to being a nurse ignorant of evolution’s impact on their profession, especially if they went through a YEC college, since YECs tend to ignore or deny evolution’s practical impact on modern science.
 
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False dichotomy
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Do you even know what a false dichotomy is? It requires presenting an actual, you know, dichotomy, which I didn’t do.
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or straw man
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Do you know what a strawman is?
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Either way this is not a valid argument.
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Beyond just the fact that I’m not sure you know what either of those fallacies are, I wasn’t presenting an argument. I was presenting a scenario where someone might become a nurse without encountering how evolution is behind a lot of modern medicine. Then again, I don’t know what a nurse’s curriculum is, but I’m pretty sure it includes a couple semesters of biology.
 
The scenario fails.
You are the one that brought the YEC label to the table.
So as I see it, you are either going from evolution believer to YEC with no mention of a middle ground…a false dichotomy.
Or you brought in YEC to label those that disbelieve evolutionary theory. A straw man.

If you did not intend an actual argument, my apologies.
 
You are incorrect. Evolutionary models are the basis for biology and medicine. Antibiotic resistant bacteria is evolution guidance at work.
 
I was speaking of our modern medical science. Evolution is the foundational theory of biology, and by extension, medicine.

But you (and others) are right, nurses and other practical practitioners don’t need to muck around with that sort of in-depth theory.
 
Not quite.

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Actually no. Using Horizontal Gene Transfer, bits of genetic material are exchanged between different species of bacteria. This built-in defense mechanism works out in the wild as well. Bacteria were found in dirt that were resistant to man-made antibiotics. The resulting bacteria combinations always remain bacteria.

In drug trials, hundreds of tubes in racks contain a small sample of diseased tissue. A drug candidate is injected into each one through an automated process. The effect is then scanned. If any tissue samples were affected positively then the hunt is on to determine a dosage. The drug candidate goes on to animal trials. If the drug works without killing or crippling the animals then human trials are considered. It is all trial and error.
 
You should add Bioinformatics, which is taking cells apart like complicated machinery to see how things actually work.

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Horizontal gene transfer IS part of evolution. Or, perhaps more accurately, horizontal gene theory is one of the mechanisms that drives ‘evolution’, and, is part of the theory.
 
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Not in this case. The end result recombination cannot be predicted. Again, the bacteria remain bacteria, they do not become something else. Viruses can also recombine to create different strains of a virus. The outer protein coat can change its architecture, meaning drugs that could bind with version one can’t bind with version two.
 
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Horizontal gene transfer IS part of evolution. Or, perhaps more accurately, horizontal gene theory is one of the mechanisms that drives ‘evolution’, and, is part of the theory.
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Cell directed mutations?
 
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