Scientific dogma does change from time to time, yet people sometime tend to revere it as incontrovertably true, until someone discovers dark energy or the next dark matter.
Definition of dogma-“a principle or set of principles laid down by an authority as incontrovertibly true”. Popular dogma often develops from minions interpreting temporal reports of field experts. When science (knowledge) appropriates ethics one tends to drift toward fascist ideals. Science is a process of approximating/improving accuracy regarding speculation.
Maybe the most grave ethical error is to be satisfied with the way things are in society when they aren’t good.
Dogma is just the opinion of experts; authorities, formalized as doctrine,like the standard model of physics, or aether, phlogiston, flat Earth, Newtonian physics Relativistic physics, plate tectonics, Army Field Manuals, The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics, The Teacher’s Handbook, psychiatry’s DSM book etc. Society applies labels and recommends guidelines and procedures in numerous fields based on the opinion of authorities. Expert, codified opinion by any name is still dogma. One shouldn’t overlook Emily Post’s ‘Guide to Etiquette; 18th Edition’. It is dogma. Often or generally there are better, undiscovered methods, figures etc that aren’t presently known.
Dogma can even occur in mathematics. An example would be Cantor’s trans-finite numbers Leopold Kronecker publicly called Cantor a scientific charlatan doing Cantor real harm. Faith and dogma are not necessarily related logically. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/when-scientific-orthodoxy-resembles-religious-dogma/
Anti-Christians and atheists like to associate dogma with theism yet that is quite biased. One can toss them together willy nilly yet that is very unsatisfying as the terms are not rigorously defined. Dogmas may be based on evidence and critics of Christianity tend to disregard or to be dismissive of evidence that does exist. They prefer that Christian dogmatics be based entirely on faith and that faith has no evidence, as if they could equate faith with zero and so multiplying dogma x faith would equal zero…and its all quite silly.
The Bible and Christian history provide copious evidence in scripture, history and so forth, and therefore people tend to believe it and develop faith. It isn’t too different than those that have faith in the veracity of string theory though the evidence is sketchy and extra Universes possibly never subject to providing solid evidence that would enable interested parties to catch a transport vehicle to visit one.
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