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Forty years ago, on 21st June 1981, Rupert Sheldrake's book A New Science of Life was published, introducing the idea of morphic resonance to the world.
Here's a presentation from Sheldrake, discussing it this year.


Note: there are subtitles but I suggest they are taken with a large pinch of salt, unless I've somehow been missing out on the ideas of French philosopher Oreburgh Song and the great novelist Muscle Proust.

Consciousness is NOT emergent from matter

Materialists and atheists like to talk about the supposedly “emergent properties” of consciousness. What they mean is that the mind is fully reducible to matter, and that there is, therefore, nothing immaterial to a human being, and certainly no soul either. Materialist often cite neuroscience and the newest neuroscientific findings in support of their position. Their view can be described as physicalism and it opposes dualism which holds that human are both physical and non-physical, that we have a body and what has traditionally been called a soul. The philosophy of mind deals with the question of the origin and nature of consciousness, a mystery that has haunted philosophers since the time of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. I did a one-hour interview with philosopher of mind JP Moreland. This video is an excerpt and it deals with the question of whether emergent properties exist and what they are.

Why it is 98% certain that there is no tree of life

Paleontology poses an insurmountable challenge to the theory of evolution. Charles Darwin himself predicted that countless intermediate animal forms must exist within the fossil record, given that organisms gradually evolved from one species into the next. However, what the fossil record actually shows is the exact opposite, namely, that whenever new species appear, they do so suddenly and without evidence of precursory forms in the geological record. The most prominent example is the so-called Cambrian explosion which happened around 530 million years ago, when about 20 animal phyla suddenly showed up on the stage of life out of the clear blue, as it were, but with no intermediate forms from the Precambrian strata. Given that no attempt to reconcile paleontology with evolutionary theory has succeeded, Darwinian evolutionists have come to admit that the fossil record doesn’t fit with their theory, as we will see at the end of this video. For the same reason, they’ve started to turn their focus towards another field of study in their search for support of evolution: Homology and phylogenetic trees. This episode assesses these efforts and shows why neither homologous structures nor tree of life studies support evolutionary theory.

Basics of intelligent design: Still NO fossils

Are you familiar with the basics of evolutionary theory? Then you might know that the fossil record actually puts evolution in real trouble. You might also know that various theories have been put forward by Darwin’s advocates in an attempt to fix that problem. In this video, I’m going to show you why these attempts not only fail but even amplify the Darwinian dilemma.

Why science demands a leap into the unknown - Ted talk



https://www.ted.com/talks/uri_alon_why_s...he_unknown

Stephen Meyer discusses the difficulties with how matter came about, how matter became life and the fossil record.