Is evolution really necessary for medical advances?
Yet another email from self-described ‘professional biologist’ Dr Richard Meiss, Speedway, IN, who wrote, ‘Please feel free to reply to these comments and/or to place them on your web page.’ In his letter, printed below, he takes issue with Ken Ham’s radio broadcast ‘Evolution—Does It Help Technology?’, and tries to demonstrate how evolution is so vital for medical research. Once more it illustrates an argument from authority (the technical term is Argumentum ad verecundiam), where Dr Meiss speaks outside his own field. His letter is reprinted (indented dark red), with point-by-point responses by Dr Carl Wieland, a medical doctor, demonstrating that the alleged medical advances are easily explained from a design perspective, and documenting how evolution has actually hindered research.
