I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.

I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.

The morphic fields include all kinds of organizing fields...: The organizing fields of animal and human behaviour, of social and cultural systems, and of mental activity can all be regarded as morphic fields which contain an inherent memory.

In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.

In practice, the goal of skepticism is not the discovery of truth, but the exposure of other people's errors. It plays a useful role in science, religion, scholarship, and common sense. But we need to remember that it is a weapon serving belief or self-interest; we need to be skeptical of skeptics. The more militant the skeptic, the stronger the belief.

Over the course of fifteen years of research on plant development, I came to the conclusion that for understanding the development of plants, their morphogenesis, genes and gene products are not enough.

Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.