Scientists should focus more their talents on more pressing problems?

Question

rather than trying to disprove God by propping up a big HOAX perpetuated by Darwin. It's a waste of talent and taxpayers' money

Agree or disagree?

Which is more pressing problem now: (a) how to defeat the "super bugs", or (b) proving / disproving the theory of evolution?

Brad,
"super bugs" is a Canadian term meaning bacteria that have developed resistance to even the most advanced anti-biotic.

I thought you were a scientist or a wide reader?

Abulafia: Mutation is not the same as evilution.

Answer 1

Science used to be fun but it seems like these stupid theories like evolution and such has brought it to a screeching halt.

I'd like to see science throw these things in the garbage and get back to work because we've been sitting still long enough.

Answer 2

This is just an assumption, just as much as your question is, but I don't think scientists are doing their jobs just to reinforce the fact that god is a myth.

They do their jobs to better understand life and the secrets of the universe and to better understand how we got here and where we're going. It does help mankind as it further advances the knowledge we have about ourselves, the animals around us, our planet and what we can do to better understand and possibly improve them.

To blindly assume that science is there just to disprove some sort of supreme being is not only ignorant and pompous on your part, it's completely assinine.

Oh, and in regards to Darwinism as a hoax.. maybe some of his theories are bunk but that's what science is all about - to disprove them so that we can learn and find better, more suitable theories. Religion and god cannot be disproven and, even if it could, you are unwilling to try.

Answer 3

Wow you are a bigotted fool aren't you. But it's handy that you identified some of the pressing problems, like defeating diseases and agricultural pests, improving strains used in agriculture, finding oil, providing vaccines, general medicine, developing better techniques for managing fisheries and conservation, etc etc. Because science is incremental - everything builds on previous knowledge. None of this could be done without the knowledge of evolution, which continues to expand!!

Science isn't interested in disproving God. If you think that evolution disproves God then it only shows that you are trying to put your own bigoted words in God's mouth. Now why don't you show your complete lack of integrity yet again and give 10 points to a mindless fool who says "I agree" to your "question" (oh and PS. don't forget to delete your "question" if anyone shows that you have lied in it)

Answer 4

First of all, researching evolution has nothing to do with attempting to disprove God. Such research has been carried out by religious and non-religious scientists alike. As for wasting talent and taxpayer's money, I would argue that most scientists would be more than willing to simply stick to their research, but they are drawn into the creationism vs. evolution debate because of school boards and politicians trying to undermine science by forcing a nonscientific, religious viewpoint into the science curricula at all levels of education.

Indeed, they would probably be delighted to focus on defeating increasingly drug-resistant bacteria and viruses (which provide evidence of evolutionary processes), but are instead drawn into defending the basic underlying principles of science and the scientific method by those who do not understand them but would undermine them all the same.

Answer 5

Uh... super-bugs have everything to do with evolution. How do you think they came about? Because some of those "bugs" mutated and developed a resistance to antibiotics. And the way we can control them is by understanding their evolution and using that the predictive power of it to combat them.

In fact, the entirety of medicine is based on the theory/fact of evolution, from gene therapy, to pharmaceuticals, to organ transplants, and much more. None of these have their basis in the bible or find their facts through prayer to a god. They come from the observations and predictions that evolution affords us. Now, which of those are not pressing problems?

Answer 6

I bet you haven't even read a bit of his theory or his proof. Also most are on pressing issues (which evolution isn't really one since it is pretty much considered a fact). Also what the heck is "super bug"?


edit: well I'm not exactly canadian and they are working on that. As the saying goes "Rome wasn't built in a day"

Answer 7

Evolution is not a hoax. Learning the truth about where we came from is very important, and could lead to the answers to many questions. Besides, the scientists who research evolution and our past are largely anthropologists, not pharmacists or chemists, so making them stop doing their research would not exactly help research in other arias, seeing as while they know quite a bit about carbon dating and such, they probably don't know much about creating new medicines to combat your "super bugs."

Answer 8

I am in 75% agreement with what you say. Science should not concern itself with religious matters. Likewise, religion should not concern itself with matters of science.
The ways in which life has developed on earth are matters of scientific study. If all life was created by an almighty creator, then we have no right to interfere with any of it, including viruses and "super bugs". An interesting side note: viruses and bacterias mutate into stronger versions of themselves in response to our efforts to kill them. The weaker ones die and the stronger ones reproduce. But that has nothing to do with evolution, does it?
To put science and religion into their proper places in the lives of humans, we might have to appeal to a higher power: ethics. No domain of thought is very good at self-regulation. Science doesn't say which questions it should or shouldn't try to answer and neither does religion. It is up to our ethics to regulate our other fields of knowledge.

Answer 9

You are so full of it.

Evolution is not a hoax, it's fact. Go back to school and then come back after you've had a real education.

The fact that you're canadian (I am too) and have so little understanding of evolution, scares me. Even I learned more in my classes growing up than you apparently know.

Answer 10

It's you Christofascists who try to disprove the theory of evolution. gravity is a theory, but I'm not going to levitate under my own power to disprove that one. The scientific definition of theory is different than the normal definition.