Re: [asa] ID/parapsychology connection?

At 12:24 PM 10/2/2006, Freeman, Louise Margaret wrote:
>I was suprised to see Janice quoting Robin Collins citing
>unreferenced work by parapsychologist Rupert Sheldrake that raised
>the possibility of transcontinental communication in animals via
>"morphic resonance" (though Collins qualifies everything with a big
>"*if* this turns out to be true")
>June's PSCF published a favorable review of Radin's "The concious
>universe: the scientific truth of psychic phenomena" in which the
>reviewer closed by saying the book had been recommended by
>Dembski. Dembski has also endorsed the Manmin Joonang Church, whose
>leader claims to be able to turn salt water to fresh and perform
>miraculous healings.
>
>This leads me to wonder how common respect for and interest in
>parapsychology as a science is among ID proponents. My own contact
>with the field is quite limited: occasionally a transfer student
>comes along who has taken a course in parapsychology (always at a
>community college, in my experience) and who wants to count it as an
>elective in our major. (My job is to tell her no, since we do not
>offer such a course in our department). Beyond that, the closest
>I've come is having a man in my former church assume that because my
>degree was in biological psychology I must know how to hypnotize plants!
>
>Taking parapsychology seriously as a science does not seem to be
>common among the Southern Baptists I know who are so gung ho for
>intelligent design (not to mention"Thousands not Billions" and other
>"challenges" to mainstream science). Indeed, most would dismiss it
>as at best "New Age" and at worst occultic. I also can't imagine
>that many parapsychologists endorse ID theory.
>
>Any comments on whether there is a connection? ~ Louise M. Freeman, PhD

@ These people are commenting on that subject. Click
here: http://skepdic.com/news/newsletter67.html and scroll down to:
Dean Radin Jumps on the Quantum Mechanics Bandwagon

~ Janice

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Received on Mon Oct 2 12:52:54 2006