"Does a mechanic need to understand the origins, history, and technological advances that have gone into the motor vehicle in order to properly fix it"? Yes, absolutely the mechanic must know all the parts, and electrical sysyems of modern cars, in order to fix them. The modern mechanic has engine scopes (computurized machine that diagnoses problems in the engine system, fuel injection system, and electrical-computer system) and various other tools at his disposal. Thus, if the mechanic does not know how to properly fix on part of a modern automobile, then he doesn't know how to properly fix or diagnose the car! This same analogy can also pertain to medical doctors and biologists too, because they must know the whole of their subjects that they either fix them or rely on past evolutionary data on all different fields of science in order to diagnose and cure the patient.
The Darwinian Theory can help the medical doctors how Homos sapiens past pedigrees or ancestral information on who had what disease (cancer, heart, and diabetes) or what not. This can enable the doctor to investigate how to try to prevent the disease with the susceptible patient or find new treatments or cures (Nesse, Williams, 1998).
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It is important for a mechanic to know how all of the parts in a engine work but evolution doesn't really have anything to do with it. It's all about what is going on in present time, mechanics don't need to know that the tires of said car were once made of stone.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the analogy that mechanics of a car don't need that a tire comes from a fossil fuel/oil; but I sure would like to know if he has considerable knowledge of the past problems and current problems of my car in order to fix it correctly. But when comparing humans' to the mix in evolutionary medicine I agree that the doctors don't have to go back in time to when we came out of the water from a fish but I do think that a few hundred or more years back of a human's evolutionary pedigree is an important aspect for a doctor to see how diseases have occurred in their patients to help prevent and cure.
ReplyDeletePast ancestral information is very important in trying to diagnose someone especially if its their parents information they are looking at.
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