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  • proper noun An English surname.

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Examples

  • I'm not familiar with Mae Wen Ho, but Sheldrake is well known as a worthless crank. mtraven,

    An Interview with Elisabet Sahtouris 2007

  • Sheldrake is pretty clearly in this category, and so is ID.

    An Interview with Elisabet Sahtouris 2007

  • Rupert Sheldrake is the first one to generate a clear statement of this hypothesis, he calls it "morphic resonance".

    Again, there is absolutely no teleology involved 2007

  • Rupert Sheldrake is the first one to generate a clear statement of this hypothesis, he calls it "morphic resonance".

    Again, there is absolutely no teleology involved 2007

  • I'm not familiar with Mae Wen Ho, but Sheldrake is well known as a worthless crank.

    An Interview with Elisabet Sahtouris 2007

  • Sheldrake is pretty clearly in this category, and so is ID.

    An Interview with Elisabet Sahtouris 2007

  • I'm not familiar with Mae Wen Ho, but Sheldrake is well known as a worthless crank.

    An Interview with Elisabet Sahtouris 2007

  • Rupert Sheldrake is not a "traditional" ID theorist, at all but he conducts a great number of interesting research projects with animals and people that "traditional" evolutionary biologists would never consider performing, because they already "know the answers" without doing the experiments.

    Books Most Important to You 2006

  • If field theories of biology are correct (and Sheldrake is only the most recent and well-known proponent) then this goes a long way to explaining the conservation of form and function in a way not completely reliant on the stability of DNA.

    The Memory Hole 2005

  • For the same reason, probably, that some people are desperate to label Sheldrake as a con-artist, a crank, and whatever else – because it happens to be a particular line drawn in the sand between people of different views and, really, priesthoods.

    An Interview with Elisabet Sahtouris 2007

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