E.g., in regards to scientific support for evolution and
rejection of creationism and the young earth
dogma, in 1986, 72 US Nobel Prize winners, 17 state academies
of science and 7 other scientific societies, signed an amicus curiae brief asking the US Supreme Court in Edwards v. Aguillard to reject a Louisiana state law requiring the teaching
of creationism, which the brief described as embodying
religious dogma.
To identify the evaluation or
rejection of doctrine as simply «confirming us in our selfishness» is such a self righteous (and stereotypical) way to defend
religious doctrine and / or simple
dogma whichever the case may be.