Charles Darwin,
Darwin Day in America,
eugenics,
Evolution,
George Draper,
International Medical Congress,
John West,
Jonathan Wells,
Joshua Lederberg,
Karl Pearson,
Louis Pasteur,
Medicine,
Michael Behe,
Michael Egnor,
microbes,
Nazism,
Pasteurization,
Pierre-Olivier Méthot,
public health,
René Dubos,
Samuel Alizon,
The Edge of Evolution,
The Myth of Darwinian Medicine (series),
Zombie Science
Editor’s note: As biologist Jonathan Wells observes, “[T]he measures being taken against the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic owe nothing to evolutionary theory.” Yet a persistent claim from evolutionists is that medical research would be crippled without a Darwinian framework. Evolution News presents a series of our previously published work addressing the myth of “Darwinian medicine.” Michael Egnor has criticized so-called “Darwinian medicine” as a useless concept, since medical science has had spectacular success without it. Darwinism is about the death of the unfit, focused on populations instead of individuals. Medicine is about healing individuals and anyone who needs help, including the unfit, the weak, and the vulnerable. How can the father of evolutionary theory, Charles Darwin, and the father of biogenesis, pasteurization and vaccines, Louis Pasteur, be reconciled? A Noble Aim In…