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Muslim students, including trainee doctors on one of Britain's leading medical courses, are walking out of lectures on evolution claiming it conflicts with creationist ideas established in the Koran.

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Surprise, surprise. This time the religion is Islam. Whoopie doo.

Yes, evolution does contradict the Koran, the Bible, and every "holy" book ever written. Whenever science contradicts your religion, your religion is wrong. Deal with it.

Now, this isn't just an academic issue. These are people training to be doctors. These are people who want to be able to perform surgery on you, prescribe medicine, diagnose disease, and research new treatments. This is big shit here.

It is commonly said that you can't understand anything in biology without evolution. It is absolutely critical that doctors not only understand the basics of evolutions, but all the nitty, gritty details.

Take for example, AIDS. Yep, that disease. It's called by a virus named HIV. The thing is, when you give medicine to people who have AIDS, at first it impedes the replication of HIV and then it doesn't. You have to take the person off of medication and then put them back on later.

This makes absolutely no fucking sense whatsoever unless you realize that HIV is composed of many strains with different genetic code that compete against each other. By changing the host's chemistry, you allow drug-resistant strains to prosper why killing off the non-drug-resistant strains. But to prevent the resistant strains from killing the patient, you must then take him off the medicine so that the non-resistant strains can crush the resistant ones. It's literally managing the evolution of a virus within a human being.

Also, recently it has been discovered that some women are immune to AIDS. The way some diseases become non-threatening, is that they kill off all non-resistant hosts allowing the resistant ones to pass along their genes including the disease fighting one. This is literally evolution happening right now in our species. Given enough time, our species would adapt to AIDS and it would become a non-life-threatening disease. Understanding how this works in minute detail is essential to finding a cure without waiting for billions of deaths over centuries.

So when this ass-wipes refuse to listen to lectures on evolution because of their "faith", I say their faith makes it impossible for them to be qualified as doctors. Sorry, but you can't piss all over science and expect to still reap its rewards. The technologies and high paying jobs come with the price of accepting and embracing the knowledge upon which they were built.

Evolution is both a theory and a fact. And it is the very basis of all our understanding of biology, ecosystems, and medical science including genetics. Evolution has practical implications, life-and-death implications. Multibillion dollar per year industries are built on exploiting evolution to create biological batteries or mass produce silk for soft body armor.

Perhaps most important, the lack of willingness to accept evolution because of religious dogma demonstrates a lack of rationality that cannot be tolerate in important professions like doctors or policy makers. To completely disregard reality because of some arbitrary myth is to show the lack of critical thinking ability. Anyone who does that should not be allowed in the medical profession or in public office.