This conception soon created, as the German writer Gotthold Lessing described it, an "ugly, broad ditch" between the history to which the Scriptures belonged and bore witness and the eternal truths that the dogmatic systems had derived from them.
(Of course, it would be downright idiotic to take a bunch of sci-fi novels as gospel, and to this extent Wilson and Shea were arch-Discordians in steadfastly repudiating "self-referential reality tunnels": dogmatic systems of thought that rely on a central, unfounded claim, to which all "evidence" is then bent in order to confirm and reinforce that basic premise).
Evolutionary biology is a non-dogmatic system of modifiable theories that is based exclusively on empirical facts and data (Kutschera and Niklas 2004; Kutschera 2008a, b, 2009; Scott and Branch 2009; Coyne 2009) (Fig. 6).
Second, there are dogmatic faith systems that deserve the "ism" at the end, such as "Creationism," which is rejected by modern Catholics, due to their non-literal interpretation of the Bible (Numbers 2006).
After his team published studies linking the apolipoprotein E gene to late-onset Alzheimer's disease, he said, their funding requests to the National Institutes of Health received poor ratings from "narrowly focused scientists" with "dogmatic belief systems" and were rejected out of hand.
Dogmatic Gourmet Sausage System, a stand in the Bleecker Playground at Abingdon Square in the West Village, has a different way with hot dogs.
One of those consequences has been to remove imagination and intellectual playfulness (what little there was) to replace it with a stultifying, dogmatic, methodologically driven system designed mainly to produce politically correct academic reputations.
Their insights, which were meant to guide us toward the realization of our full humanness, have too often been turned into belief systems, dogmatic thinking or worse.
It was dogmatic that the neuroendocrine system could regulate the immune system, and that neurotransmitters could alter immune cell functions, but it was unimaginable that discrete neural reflex circuits regulated these systemic inflammatory responses.
