the principles of world view

Biologists will tell you that it is evolutionary theory that underpins all biology, and fortunately, it effects their way of thinking. In order to develop both the first injected and the first oral polio vaccinations, it was necessary to use organisms related to those on whom the vaccination would be used in ways that would be difficult or impossible ethically to involve humans. But, for creationists, only humans are related to humans.Fortunately, the biologists were evolutionists, so they knew where to look. So, John, when you thank those biologists for their science that you say you believe in, you could also thank our simian cousins for the role that they played. And you could reflect that countless lives were saved not only because we have close relatives in the wild, but because modern biologists, thanks to the work of people like Darwin, are well aware of that fact.Now, you try and think up some practical value in teaching so called "creationist science" in schools.There are not only the "principles of world view", as this thread's title would have it, but there are the vastly different practicalities of different world views.

I thought someone might say something like that. However, if you look at my post, I said that organisms that were related to those who would receive the vaccines were required, not organisms that were "similar". That, however, you could quite reasonably point out, is a post-Darwin view, with the knowledge that "similarity" and "relatedness" are essentially the same things.Considering the thread "world view" title, the interesting thing is why Linnaeus didn't come to the obvious conclusions that we now see from his work. If he had not come from a culture with a creationist world view, wouldn't the obvious have occurred to him?You've got a good point, but I still hold that it would be much more likely for post-Darwin researchers to think of using monkeys than it would have been before.

Really?

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"Nothing in biology makes sense except in light of evolution" -

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Theodosius Dobzhansky

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Just one example.The word "biology" was actually invented by the man who presented the first really coherent theory of evolution, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.In the rest of your post, you mentioned the word "God" nine times, although I didn't mention it in the post you were replying to. But I think that this thing called God and the meaning of life are on topic, so, as I'm in an Ignostic mood, I'll leave you to discuss them with others.