Sentences with phrase «challenge scientific dogma»

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When particular elements in the traditional teaching about the nature of things have been challenged by demonstrable scientific findings, the whole structure of religious dogma has been called into question.

But it does lie within our capacity at least to challenge the dogmas of scientific materialism that rule out any point of contact between our myths of hope and the apparently unsympathetic world of nature that is often presented to us as the necessary consequent of a scientific approach to reality.

«The best scientific research is driven by curiosity, the courage to challenge existing dogmas, and a sense of excitement and fun,» explains Greenfield.

To watch Will and Krauthammer grasp for rationales to cast doubt on an established scientific field merely because its findings pose a challenge to their ideological priors is a depressing, and even harrowing, study in the poisonous effects of dogma upon a once - healthy brain.

New York Magazine reviewed Fox's «All - Star» panel on the NCA report here http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/05/krauthammer-george-will-attack-climate-science.html and concluded with this «To watch Will and Krauthammer grasp for rationales to cast doubt on an established scientific field merely because its findings pose a challenge to their ideological priors is a depressing, and even harrowing, study in the poisonous effects of dogma upon a once - healthy brain.