He is, in my estimation, entrenched in the intellectual laziness of dogma and the comforts of blinders. His is a proudly unpersuadable mind. |
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Both of these cases profoundly impressed upon me the effect that dogma can have on the ability to reason. |
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For thousands of years religious dogma and tribal superstitions kept scientific thinkers in a locked box. |
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I mean, I have no problems with research that disprove age-old theories that already mutated into dogma. |
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What usually occurs is the incorporation of the acrolect's symbols and ideas, the dogma and doctrine, and the basilect's practices and rituals. |
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Is Darwinian evolution established fact, or a dogma ready to be overtaken by the next scientific revolution? |
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The director lays down his motion picture belief system, his own directorial dogma about what film should and could be. |
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If unconditional, it converts to dogma, which is incompatible with intellectual honesty. |
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In 1870 the First Vatican Council announced the dogma of papal infallibility on matters of faith and morals. |
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This dogma was part of the reaction against the ideals and principles of the Russian Revolution. |
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Public health policy should be based on a thorough and critical review of the scientific evidence by open minds unfettered by custom and dogma. |
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This dogma is supposed to free the writerly side of one's brain for unconstrained truth-telling. |
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Unfortunately however, the paleobotanical data cited were misdated, and one hopes that such information does not enter into the world of dogma. |
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It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies. |
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None of these mainstream idiots understand that monopolism has a well-conceived dogma that aspires to destroy entrepreneurialism. |
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If you don't like what councillors are doing in your name and party political dogma, then why not do something about it? |
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That said, a few choicely worded bits of political dogma does not a great governor make. |
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Such a society would vanquish sycophants, mindless ritual, dogma, unthinking action, and hero worship. |
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It was the bitter resentment of an unhappy childhood that set Butler against all dogma, all overweening authority and authoritarianism. |
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The unspoken assumption is that personal morality stems solely from the dogma of organized religion. |
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The scientific principles behind biotechnology are anchored in what is known as the central dogma of biology and genetics. |
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The world view of the secular left or hard left is indeed a dogma or a religious faith. |
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And an argument without evidence is a sorry one indeed, more akin to a creed or dogma than scientific reasoning. |
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From this was perpetuated the dogma that the private sector would always be more efficient than the public. |
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They took a sound methodology and made it a dogma that brooked no opposition, even from reality. |
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This makes it a plain fact that religion can neither be a dogma nor a doctrine. |
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In a free market society, ruled not by dogma, but by the mammon, it was unnecessary. |
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At times the style is evangelistic, and Starey seems to accept uncritically the political dogma that dominates current policy. |
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Complexities of politics and dogma take root well beneath the surface of what had seemed to be a simple, resoluble situation. |
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His constant moralizing and evangelizing about the superiority of Republican dogma is his right. |
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It may or may not be dangerous depending on how puritanically the dogma part is enforced or implemented. |
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The new religions exalt secular saints, enforce dogma, punish heretics, value self-sacrifice, and sanctify writings. |
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From Cicero and Quintillion down to the present day there has been an unending and acrimonious debate on the dogma of untranslatability. |
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Strifes like that are due to excessive dogma and idealism and can only lead to lose-lose situations. |
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Many scientists believe the dogma that the blind, purposeless forces of evolution created all the genetic information in plants. |
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All the top imams and ayatollahs decided to meet on such religious questions to settle some urgent details of dogma. |
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Connected with this are religious teachings or dogma, rituals, prayer and so on. |
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Now you're asking us whether you should bring up a child with your atheist teachings and dogma? |
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But when Diener announced his discovery, he was overturning the scientific dogma that held that an organism with no proteins wasn't supposed to be able to replicate itself. |
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But when that clinical research does not jibe with aha dogma, it is ignored. |
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Only the Conference of the Religious in Ireland dares to poke its head above the parapet, and that is to preach radical-left redistributionism, not conservative-right dogma. |
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The critical reason for this is likely to be missed by those who worship at the altar of density and contemporary planning dogma. |
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The Liberal Democrats believe drugs policy should be based on evidence, not dogma or the desire to sound tough. |
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But when Diener announced his discovery, he was overturning scientific dogma that held that an organism with no proteins couldn't replicate itself. |
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Not everyone, however, is convinced, believing that while its achievement was considerable, latterly it was running into quicksand and was mired in dogma. |
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National economies and the hard facts of life are no respecters of dogma. |
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Indeed, it was the embrace of evidence-based dogma that facilitated the creation of the 10-minute encounter. |
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From my experience, hostility coming from the Left is a direct response to the sanctimonious, oppressive dogma and bigotry that emanates from the political Right. |
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For instance, it's long been dogma that the use of anabolic steroids interferes with proper hepatic function and causes thickening of the heart muscle. |
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Unfortunately, according to the present dogma health care is not a matter of health, merely a matter of political demagogy and media sensationalism. |
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Instead, religious missionaries continue to bring boring, sexless dogma to the rest of the world, while soda pop executives continue to bring crisp, refreshing deliciousness. |
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I don't have many absolutes, no religious tracts to adhere to, no political dogma that I feel so strongly about that I feel it should be imposed on everyone. |
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In every way possible, conservative dogma has betrayed the country. |
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The conclusions of Coming Apart are pure dogma, not only unsupported but even unrelated to anything that went before. |
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The promulgation of the infallibility of the Pontiff and the universality of his episcopate reinforced this ultramontane dogma at the First Vatican Council. |
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It is only through the uncensored expression of such opinions that we can understand and seek to change the dogma of those that believe in extremism. |
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As conservatives, these authors might have been expected to cut through much of the muddle-headed leftist dogma that permeates so many discussions of gender. |
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Sakwa evidently has no patience with the easy assumption that this Russian leader marks no more than a relapse into tsarist practices and Slavophile dogma. |
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Despite ideological dogma, Czechs, Slovaks and Bulgarians found ways to recognise each other and discover the beauty of their countries and nations based on Slavonic origins. |
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Translators are not free to omit or alter anything communicated by the original, either systematically or unsystematically, in deference to feminist or to any other dogma. |
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Nathan reports that no-one saw them after they'd dispersed into the crowd to distribute the Committee's broadside condemning Reverend Owings's capitalistic dogma. |
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It's just too tempting to use cable TV's monologue format to propound comfortable dogma and ignore unsettling counter-evidence. |
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In sync with his cooking dogma is his steadfast managing style. |
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For those who buy into the rejectionist dogma, there can almost be no answer. |
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The pope's trip commemorates the 150th anniversary of the proclamation of the Immaculate Conception, the dogma that says Mary was born without original sin. |
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Unfortunately, the author conflates blind followers of religious dogma with thoughtful believers who reason independently within a religiously-informed framework. |
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Of course, there is that little problem of irreformable dogma. |
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It wears thin after a while, but the pace is kept up by Vaguen's malaprops, slightly off analogies and clever reworking of typical pop psychology dogma. |
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He challenged geocentrism, refuted the dogma of the perfection of the heavens, and suggested that there might be a vast number of other worlds as well as universes. |
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Just pointing out that there's a wide gulf of difference between the scientific theory of evolution and the way evolutionary dogma gets perceived by the masses. |
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And governments and voters need to be skeptical about sacrificing long established rights and traditional freedoms on the altar of the scientific dogma du jour. |
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Some scholars thus called into question the Church's dogma of a single origin for all humankind, and resolved the discrepancy with a second creation. |
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Since the historical situation about happiness compels him to search for quietude from the turmoil of opinion, his search for happiness assumes the form of a search for ataraxy with regard to dogma. |
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The central dogma of molecular biology is the explanation of the way in which the information of such programs is encoded, decoded, maintained, copied, and transmitted within the cell. |
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The central dogma in its modern form can be understood in terms of the flow of information within individuals and between generations carried by macromolecules. |
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There is a central dogma of ethical theory, namely that it rest on revealing or constructing a moral bedrock that tells us the right way to think about moral problems. |
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The strength of his sincere belief in the tenets of this movement led him to ignore the more contentious side of its dogma. |
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Spirituality, on the other hand, is an individual, religionlike experience freed from the dogma and ritual of traditional religion. |
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She says she was released when she feigned acceptance of their dogma. |
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Yet, even here, Tory dogma is about moving the debate rightwards and picking off vulnerable groups while leaving pensioner benefits untouched. |
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Eric Lincoln, which means any religion's foundational, catechismal doctrine or dogma, syncretism is a nonfactor. |
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As a satirical polemicist, he frequently made use of his works to criticize intolerance, religious dogma, and the French institutions of his day. |
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The dogma that saturated fat causes heart disease is crumbling. |
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But the absence of dogma gives Hinduism an almost amoebic ability to mold itself to the socio-economic needs of its times. |
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In modern times, Judaism lacks a centralized authority that would dictate an exact religious dogma. |
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There is considerable variation in burial practices, both spatially and chronologically, which suggests a lack of dogma about funerary rites. |
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They are still locked into their seemingly unshiftable and totally opposing positions by party dogma and religious prejudice. |
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Its themes were the value of benevolent aristocratic government, a loathing of political dogma, and the modernisation of Tory policies. |
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Some heresies have also been doctrinally based, in which a teaching was deemed to be inconsistent with the fundamental tenets of orthodox dogma. |
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It is heretical, because it touches on dogma and the interpretation of belief, rather than belief itself. |
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We are dealing with a bunch of unreconstructed Stalinists who are completely driven by political dogma. |
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At the Restoration, this sensed difference became a kind of critical dogma. |
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She's Copy Editor's only full-timer, editing style dogma with the help of a handful of copy editors, contributors and usage manuals. |
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Christianism itself is claimed by the child archetype and so lends its dogma towards the literal protection of babies as well. |
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This would subsequently be addressed in Mary's case by dogma surrounding the circumstances of her own birth. |
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This discoursive integration of Eikhenbaum's individual contribution precludes any attempt at turning his work into a dogma. |
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There might not be alternative personal proclamations with no mention of the sacred dogma in question, such as affirmations, to be made. |
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The discussion o f narrative seriality and binary structures in the news drowns important insights in critical dogma. |
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In 1950, Pope Pius XII defined the Assumption of Mary as dogma, the only time that a pope has spoken ex cathedra since papal infallibility was explicitly declared. |
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So far there have been only theoretical considerations against the experimental finding and dogma that monozygotic twins are genetically fully identical. |
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According to Weber, Confucianism and Puritanism are mutually exclusive types of rational thought, each attempting to prescribe a way of life based on religious dogma. |
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In dogma he follows Basil of Caesarea and other Greek authors, but nevertheless gives a distinctly Western cast to the speculations of which he treats. |
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Other geologists, without going to see for themselves and driven by uniformitarian dogma, absolutely refused to accept a catastrophic explanation. |
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This might mean an impasse to those with unwillingness to edify the dogma they see as untrue and those who decline to refer to sacred matters on the subject at hand. |
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