Book description
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
constricted 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 skeptical spirit of true science, Sheldrake turns the ten
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.
Dr Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and author of more
than 80 technical papers and 10 books, including A New Science of
Life. He was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, where he was
Director of Studies in cell biology, and was also a Research Fellow of
the Royal Society. From 2005-2010 he was the Director of the
Perrott-Warrick Project for research on unexplained human abilities,
funded from Trinity College, Cambridge. He is currently a Fellow of
the Institute of Noetic Sciences in California, and a Visiting
Professor at the Graduate Institute in Connecticut. He is married, has
two sons and lives in London. His web site is www. sheldrake. org
