Geburtsdatum | Sonntag, 28. Juni 1942 |
Geburtsort | Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, England |
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Beschreibung | Alfred Rupert Sheldrake (born 28 June 1942) is an English author and parapsychology researcher who proposed the concept of morphic resonance, a conjecture which lacks mainstream acceptance and has been criticized as pseudoscience. He worked as a biochemist at Cambridge University from 1967 to 1973, then as principal plant physiologist at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics in India until 1978. |
For more than 200 years, materialists have promised that science will eventually explain everything in terms of physics and chemistry. Believers are sustained by the faith that scientific discoveries will justify their beliefs.
Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth.
The facts of science are real enough, and so are the techniques that scientists use, and so are the technologies based on them. But the belief system that governs conventional scientific thinking is an act of faith.
