[MD] Dawkins a Materialist

[Case]

[David M]
Doctrine in the paradigm sense though.

[Case]
Not so much. Paradigms resist change but they do shift. They resist change
because scientists attempt to shift them with each experiment and they don't
move. As knowledge and new information accrues, the scientific world view
may change, even radically but that is part of the program. It is also
frequently true of scientific paradigm shifts that the new view builds on
the old but does not replace it. Einstein shifted our view of physics but
did not render Newton useless.