Call it progress or evolution, motion is not necessarily improvement. Either progress or evolution can be motion around a circular track. When you find dogma and faith reappearing you will be back to start. As evidence that dogma and faith are appearing out of science, --Global Warming.
Ah yes. “They shall run in great circles and be known as big wheels.” { 8^)
I don’t know that the progress v motion issue you raise is necessarily attributable to any particular discipline or dogma. A great deal of it, I suspect, is simply attributable to the contrariness of human nature itself.
As progress (opposed to mere ‘motion’) what I specifically had in mind was certain self-evident truths, such as all men being created equal, and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. The clamour and scandal has not ceased since Mr. Jefferson first had the effrontery to utter these thoughts aloud. I’m sure others, of much greater intelligence than I, can think of many more examples.