Sentences with phrase «accepted scientific dogma»
Even though Hayflick's discoveries went against accepted scientific dogma — «I was the first one to show that aging had its origins inside the cell,» he now says — they ultimately sparked an explosion in the study of aging.
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Fourth, there has been an inexplicable readiness on the part of both the courts and legal practitioners to accept scientific dogmas that pass for serious expert testimony.
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Teaching Creationism as a scientific theory teaches people to reject the value of evidence and accept dogma and tradition.
It is based upon the same science practices that have led to the gasoline engine, modern medicine, nuclear power, computers, etc. b. Although people believe in some aspects of scientific ideas that are conjectural, the extent that those will be fully accepted will be based upon testing and observations, not faith or dogma.
«A fundamental difference between religious and scientific thought is that the received beliefs in religion are ultimately based on revelations or pronouncements, usually by some long - dead prophet or priest... Dogma is interpreted by a caste of priests and is accepted by the multitude on faith or under duress.»
When I read a paper I want to know for sure that it was accepted because of its scientific merit, not because its results adhered to dogma.