I worked with a middle school science teacher who didn't believe in evolution, in "liberal bastion" Massachusetts.
And yeah, if a medical professional doesn't believe in evolution, I'm willing to stick my foot up their ass. This one's personal: I have a skin condition called hidradenitis suppurativa in which my immune system overresponds to bacteria normally present in the skin (apocrine sweat glands to be precise) with inappropriate levels of inflammation. (I've heard that 80% of the population has staphylococcus aureus on their skin, and our bodies normally have no problem handling it, and my body doesn't have problems fighting it off other than overreacting in my armpits and some other locations.)
Where my personal stake in evolution comes in is that while it started out as normal staph, throughout my life of doctors administering antibiotics every time I had a flareup (as much as 3-4 times a year), I've watched it systematically become resistant to a number of common antibiotics out there - amoxicillin, cephalexin, and others I can't remember off the top of my head. My dermatologist had me up to levoquin when he decided that I better not take it and we should try other things so that other random bacteria in me don't develop resistance to that too.
If someone tells me they don't believe in evolution, next time I have a flare-up I'll shove my oozing puss-filled lump the size of a baseball in their face and then see what they think.
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And yeah, if a medical professional doesn't believe in evolution, I'm willing to stick my foot up their ass. This one's personal: I have a skin condition called hidradenitis suppurativa in which my immune system overresponds to bacteria normally present in the skin (apocrine sweat glands to be precise) with inappropriate levels of inflammation. (I've heard that 80% of the population has staphylococcus aureus on their skin, and our bodies normally have no problem handling it, and my body doesn't have problems fighting it off other than overreacting in my armpits and some other locations.)
Where my personal stake in evolution comes in is that while it started out as normal staph, throughout my life of doctors administering antibiotics every time I had a flareup (as much as 3-4 times a year), I've watched it systematically become resistant to a number of common antibiotics out there - amoxicillin, cephalexin, and others I can't remember off the top of my head. My dermatologist had me up to levoquin when he decided that I better not take it and we should try other things so that other random bacteria in me don't develop resistance to that too.
If someone tells me they don't believe in evolution, next time I have a flare-up I'll shove my oozing puss-filled lump the size of a baseball in their face and then see what they think.