I'll repeat, both speculations and hypotheses are essential to the scientific method, since they get scientists started down the track of confirming or falsifying theories.
As for alleged " dogma", I presume what you mean by that is anything you disagree with, right?
So, now... we must establish, at tax-payer expense, an Office of Olog-hai which will pass judgment on all scientific papers as to whether they are "dogma" or not??!
Good luck getting Congress to pass that one!
;-)
By “dogma”, I mean just that. Uniformitarianism is not science by the definition of science. If that’s one of the pillars that Darwin built his theory on aside from Greek philosophy/metaphysics, then the foundation is not only shaky, but utterly undermined.
Sorry about that!
It's that silly automatic word-completion on my allegedly "smart" phone.
Very helpful with my fat fingers on small keys, but you really have to watch it -- it'll sneak funny stuff in when you least expect it.
I promise to be more careful in the future. ;-(