Word: dogma
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Like schools, like businesses, like governments, like nearly everyone, it seems, religious groups are rushing online, setting up church home pages, broadcasting dogma and establishing theological newsgroups, bulletin boards and chat rooms. Almost overnight, the electronic community of the Internet has come to resemble a high-speed spiritual bazaar, where thousands of the faithful--and equal numbers of the faithless--meet and debate and swap ideas about things many of us had long since stopped discussing in public, like our faith and religious beliefs. It's an astonishing act of technological and intellectual mainstreaming that is changing the character...
...mountaintops by Noah's flood (because, he argues, a deluge would have scattered them helter-skelter rather than leaving them in orderly assemblages). And though his mind-set remains medieval, he demonstrates a decidedly modern curiosity about nature, an openness to theorizing and, above all, a willingness to dispute dogma in lively debates with an imagined "adversary." Had he ever published them, his scientific musings would surely have seemed as revolutionary to his Quattrocento contemporaries as did his ideas on perspective and color...
...essay "Science and Original Sin," Robert Wright puts forth as scientific fact a genetically based theory of psychological egoism. It is a weird piece of dogma. Although no sane person would deny that we humans harbor some pretty horrible tendencies and that these have some genetic basis, it does not follow that we are biologically driven to commit the seven deadly sins or that when moved by compassion, "we are in some Darwinian sense 'misusing' our equipment of reciprocal altruism ... into (unconsciously) thinking that the victims of famine are right next door and might someday reciprocate." I believe that there...
...course the rankings are pretty subjective, as the critics claim. But U.S. News and World Report perennially ranks services and institutions from hospitals to mutual funds and they should continue to make up lists as they see fit. Opponents of the rankings also assert that they are "taken as dogma" by and exert undue influence over students, employers and the general public...
...specific complaints raised by Stanford students are that the magazine's "subjective" rankings are "taken as dogma" by prospective students, employers and the general public, according to a press release from Thompson...