Seven hundred years ago Thomas Aquinas built a system of dogma on the doctrine that Christianity is truth, that all philosophy which is true is Christian, and that all Christianity which is not true ...

Science should be thought of as a method of inquiry, not a corpus of dogma. When a skeptic is dismissed as a purveyor of “misinformation,” this shift marks the death of genuine science. Editor's note: ...

The letter writer who says evolution has become a religion (“Evolution now treated as religion,” Jan. 18) misconstrues what a scientific theory is. It’s neither speculation nor dogma. It’s a ...

As a former resident of Colorado’s Front Range, I found Emily Guerin’s fire-science story, about forest ecologists’ disagreement about whether all dry Western forests are to be considered overly-dense ...