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‘The Science Delusion’ by Rupert Sheldrake

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Freeing the spirit of enquiry

Are minds and memories inside brains? Are the laws of nature fixed? Is nature purposeless and are phenomena like telepathy illusory? Not necessarily, says U.K. scientist Rupert Sheldrake in his latest book, The Science Delusion, a title that challenges the paradigms of high-profile materialists such as Richard Dawkins. This article looks at some ideas set out in the book.

Rupert Sheldrake, a former Director of Studies at Cambridge University, is well known for his unorthodox approach to biology. In addition to more conventional research, he has investigated the sense of being stared at and telepathy.

In his latest book, which is titled Science Set Free: 10 Paths to New Discovery in North America, Sheldrake challenges 10 core beliefs that he holds most scientists take for granted, despite a lack of evidence. These include the conservation of matter and energy, that conventional medicine is the only kind that works, that all matter is unconscious, and that humans are merely genetically programmed robots.

The book highlights the rift between paranormal researchers and mainstream scientists.

“The materialist premise is that the nature of minds is already understood in principle: mental activity is brain activity, and is located inside heads,” writes Sheldrake. “Hence psychic phenomena are impossible.”

“The premise of psychic researchers is that psychic phenomena are possible, although not yet understood; and only by studying them can more be found.”

Sheldrake goes into great detail describing how people went from believing the whole universe was alive to thinking that everything, including planets and animals, is mechanical and governed by mathematics.

“The starting point for modern science was the rejection of the older, organic view of the universe. The machine metaphor became central to scientific thinking, with very far-reaching consequences.”

He goes on to accuse materialists of smuggling vitalism into materialism by the back door.

“Mechanists expel purposive vital factors from living animals and plants, but then they reinvent them in molecular guises. One form of molecular vitalism is to treat genes as purposive entities with goals and powers that go far beyond those of a mere chemical like DNA. The genes become molecular entelechies. In his book The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins endowed them with life and intelligence.”

DNA Does Not Hold All the Answers

Sheldrake points to the Human Genome Project as the great failure of materialism. He quotes The Selfish Gene: “This DNA can be regarded as a set of instructions for how to make a body … It is as though, in every room of a gigantic building, there was a bookcase containing the architect’s plans for the entire building. The ‘bookcase’ in a cell is called the nucleus. The architect’s plans run to 46 volumes in humans—the number is different in other species.”

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