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The origin of religion is in our heads, explains developmental biologist Lewis Wolpert. First we figured out how to make tools, then a supernatural being.
  • Maybe he ought to actually look at the evidence

    Someone needs to tell this self-assured gentleman that there HAVE been replications of Sheldrake's telephone telepathy experiment and they produced results that were very significant. Sheldrake had also done e-mail telepathy results that produced incredible results. Those are also in the process of being replicated.

    In any case, Wolpert should read the literature before he dismisses psi and other phenomena out of hand. He comes off as another self-satisfied skeptic who doesn't want to hear about things that conflict with his comfortable world view.