Yet another religious cult raided

[kandrathe]

I guess so, although obviously the word "dogma" to describe a gigantic body of varied, ever-changing theory and evidence is a rather novel definition of the word.

Wouldn't you measure the effectiveness of physics education on the basis of whether or not they get the "dogma" of physical laws correct?

When science and scientists say "The debate is over..." it stops being science, and starts being Dogma. For example, the 'silencing" of UW meteorologist Mark Albright for challenging his collegues views on Cascade snow pack melt, the 'silencing' of OSU climatologist George Taylor for remaining open minded.

Now, let's not dig into the Dogma of evolution as its promulgated in education, and mind you I'm not an evolution opponent. I value Darwin's work, and also that of Mendel. It is just that if anyone questions the Darwin Holy Grail of science they are immediately ostrasized and drummed out of science professions and education. They get labeled as 'crack pots', get stripped of funding, kicked out of the "enlightened" club.