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I'm not familiar with Mae Wen Ho, but Sheldrake is well known as a worthless crank. mtraven,
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Sheldrake is pretty clearly in this category, and so is ID.
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Rupert Sheldrake is the first one to generate a clear statement of this hypothesis, he calls it "morphic resonance".
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Rupert Sheldrake is the first one to generate a clear statement of this hypothesis, he calls it "morphic resonance".
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I'm not familiar with Mae Wen Ho, but Sheldrake is well known as a worthless crank.
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Sheldrake is pretty clearly in this category, and so is ID.
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I'm not familiar with Mae Wen Ho, but Sheldrake is well known as a worthless crank.
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Rupert Sheldrake is not a "traditional" ID theorist, at all but he conducts a great number of interesting research projects with animals and people that "traditional" evolutionary biologists would never consider performing, because they already "know the answers" without doing the experiments.
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If field theories of biology are correct (and Sheldrake is only the most recent and well-known proponent) then this goes a long way to explaining the conservation of form and function in a way not completely reliant on the stability of DNA.
The Memory Hole 2005
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For the same reason, probably, that some people are desperate to label Sheldrake as a con-artist, a crank, and whatever else – because it happens to be a particular line drawn in the sand between people of different views and, really, priesthoods.
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