Message #3336

[Martin]

the teapot is actually in the constellation of Sagittarius 

No it isn't. It's between Mars and Jupiter.  Now prove me wrong!  See, Jan, that's the level of these (and, as a consequence, your) claims, and it's why others won't give them any time.  It's not because scientists are non-exploratory sorts people who dismiss these things out of hand.  On the contrary, scientists are far more the sorts of people who want to discover, whose rasion d'etre is to uncover new truths. They just use a reasoned methodology when doing so.

I think that what Sheldrake is trying to show is that there is more to 'how life is the way it is' than from what is in DNA

I know of no scientist who would disagree that there is more to how life is the way it is than what is in DNA.  But no good scientist, and no scientist that I know, would need (or wish) to propose an unfalsifiable hypothesis of 'morphic fields' and 'morphic resonance' to do so.  By doing this, Sheldrake demonstrates that his intention is to do far more than to simply draw attention to the limitations of genetics!   

[Lynne Mctaggart's book,] The Field has been characterized by Mark Henderson of The Times as pseudoscience, focusing on her personal understanding of quantum physics as a misconception. - wikipedia.