Word: dogmas
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Roman Catholicism has just begun to grapple with the awareness that liberal scholarship may pose a threat to dogma. "Sometimes I ask my Catholic counterparts why they must make all the same mistakes in 20 years when we Protestant theologians needed over 200 years," jests Tubingen's Hengel. Conservative Catholics hope Ratzinger will strike at this threat, but the Cardinal is said to oppose a return to Rome's earlier proclamations on the Bible's complete historical reliability. He seems to prefer intellectual counteroffensives to decrees and crackdowns...
...confrontation gave the family what it wanted, said one disapproving relative: "National media attention, a platform for their religious dogma and bloodshed...
...telling even the most gullible undergraduate that all section leaders are roughly equal, let alone qualified, once these statistics are readily available. Such a plan would wind up driving the worst teachers out of the TF market. Ec 10 especially should practice the free market dogma it preaches...
...Marxist label on their economic experiments. Lenin's decision to revive the private sector during the New Economic Policy of the 1920s figures prominently in the new Soviet economics. Beijing ideologists invoke the theory that China is at a "primary level of socialism" to keep Marxist dogma intact. True reform is meant to provide more bread and steel for the masses, not merely bird whistles...
Tonegawa proved that cells accomplish the Herculean task of making antibodies to order by reshuffling parts of the genes that govern the production of antibodies, the cellular building blocks of the immune system. He likens the process to rearranging the boxcars on a freight train. "The dogma was that the order of the genes in any one person is immutable," he says. "The freight train never shifts its cars around." In spite of prevailing theory, Tonegawa found that the "cars" did indeed rearrange themselves in a multitude of different configurations to make the antibodies that fight off diseases. His work...