Comment Re:Good (Score 1) 1319
Right, which is purely an ethical opinion. A fertilized egg is technically a developing human. That's a scientific fact; the personal ethics determine whether or not one believes it's okay to prevent this egg from developing further.
What the students in the article are doing is fundamentally different, because the existence of evolution is not open to debate, not something one can choose to dislike and opt out of. Particularly in infectious disease, as others have mentioned, it is crucial to understanding medicine.
There's a Doonesbury strip in which a doctor asks his patient, diagnosed with TB, if he's a creationist. When the patient asks why, the doctor explains that he can either treat the TB as it originally was prior to antibiotics, or as the multiple drug resistant strain it's evolved into.
If you don't believe in evolution, you must believe that no infectious diseases have ever evolved, e.g., you believe that MRSA doesn't exist, and that the same flu vaccine can be used every year. And that is not only 100% wrong, but would be fatal to a patient.