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→Turning science upside down: Darwin's overconfidence into his doctrine
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| style="padding:15px;" | ''"If a theory or point of view is treated only as a doctrine to be validated, and not one to be challenged, it is not within the realm of science."''
| style="padding:15px;" | ''"If a theory or point of view is treated only as a doctrine to be validated, and not one to be challenged, it is not within the realm of science."''
<div style="padding-left:40px;">— Randall Hedtke<ref name="Hedtke">{{cite book
<div style="padding-left:40px;">— Randall Hedtke<ref name="Hedtke">{{cite book
|author=Randall Hedtke
|author=Randall Hedtke
|isbn=978-0-89051-597-6
|isbn=978-0-89051-597-6
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! style="font-size:120%; background:pink; text-align:center; padding:5px 0;" | Feeling overconfident of the truth of one's doctrine
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| style="padding:15px;" | ''"I daresay I may have written too confidently from feeling so confident of the truth of my main doctrine."''
<div style="padding-left:40px;">— [[Charles Darwin]]<ref name="DarwinToSedgwick26NOV1859">{{cite web |title=Darwin Correspondence Database: Darwin, C. R. To Adam Sedgwick 26 November [1859]|author=Ch.Darwin |publisher=Darwin Correspondence Project by Cambridge University Library |url=http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2555.xml |quote=You could not possibly have paid me a more honourable compliment than in expressing freely your strong disapprobation of my Book. ... |accessdate=May 17, 2015}}</ref> to Prof. Sedgwick, 1859</div>
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After their acceptance of evolutionary dogma on ''“antiquity as a partially known factor”'' by faith, followers of evolutionary scientism started to assure that ''“the earth’s age must be very much greater than Kelvin calculated”''. Consequently, they commanded science to be turned upside down: ''”Kelvin’s problem must now be reversed”'' – instead of research finding the age of the earth, it should be already taken as given by their doctrine instead, and the only role left to science is to confirm it and determine the thermal history of the earth that would be in accord with it.<ref name="Holmes1913"/>
After their acceptance of evolutionary dogma on ''“antiquity as a partially known factor”'' by faith, followers of evolutionary scientism started to assure that ''“the earth’s age must be very much greater than Kelvin calculated”''. Consequently, they commanded science to be turned upside down: ''”Kelvin’s problem must now be reversed”'' – instead of research finding the age of the earth, it should be already taken as given by their doctrine instead, and the only role left to science is to confirm it and determine the thermal history of the earth that would be in accord with it.<ref name="Holmes1913"/>