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The Science Delusion

By: Rupert Sheldrake
Narrated by: Rupert Sheldrake, David Timson, Jane Collingwood
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Summary

The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in.

In this book, Dr Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative scientists, shows that science is being constructed by assumptions that have hardened into dogmas. The sciences would be better off without them: freer, more interesting, and more fun.

According to the dogmas of science, all reality is material or physical. The world is a machine, made up of dead matter. Nature is purposeless. Consciousness is nothing but the physical activity of the brain. Free will is an illusion. God exists only as an idea in human minds; imprisoned within our skulls. But should science be a belief-system, or a method of enquiry?

Sheldrake shows that the materialist ideology is moribund; under its sway, increasingly expensive research is reaping diminishing returns. In the sceptical spirit of true science, Sheldrake turns the 10 fundamental dogmas of materialism into exciting questions, and shows how all of them open up startling new possibilities.

The Science Delusion will radically change your view of what is possible. And give you new hope for the world.

©2012 Rupert Sheldrake (P)2012 Hodder & Stoughton Religious Studies Mathematics Human Brain
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As a the head of a Chemistry department this book made me confront a few uncomfortable assumptions I had made in my world view. Whether all of Sheldrake's theories will stand the test of time remain to be seen. However, the questions that he asks of both reader and the scientific community remain valid regardless.

The true spirit of science is alive here.

Mind opening

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This work offers an outstanding contribution to the public understanding of science. It explores the philosophy of science with an ease that makes the subject accessible to the lay reader without dumbing down.

An outstanding contribution

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I really enjoyed listening to this. Sheldrake offers a lovely critique of physical materialism and remains wonderfully accessible. I listened to it in three days and felt frustrated I could not talk to people about it enough. Socratic thought at its best.......

Wonderfully thought provoking

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Excellent book if a bit heavy in parts. Sheldrake is clearly very intelligent and a creative and open minded individual. This book is a brilliant read and I'd recommend it to everyone who assumes, like I have, that science is a definitive source of knowledge with a methodology that is clear, precise and objective. The book challenges (successfully) ten key assumptions of the materialist view, and in doing so takes the reader into a world of possibilities and alternative views. His own theory is testable while mainstream assumptions are sometimes not. He offers suggest for a way ahead and a hope of greater understanding of how the universe and those in it really 'work'.

Credible challenge to the assumptions of science

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Very pleased to have come across this book.
I don’t agree with all of it, but it’s given me new ideas and a new way to view things; and that’s the point, isn’t!

I’ve always felt constrained by what passed for _science_ in the modern world.
The distinct arrogance of the grand wizards of material science, has smothered all other avenues of investigation!
A scientist should follow the evidence; not lead it!
A scientist should question their own results.
A scientist should be open to new ideas and new ways of thinking.
Shouting: “LA LA LA LA”, hoping other ideas just go away, isn’t remotely scientific!

Well done Rupert! May the learning and discovery continue!

A much needed contribution to science that dogmatic ideologues won’t like

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