Russell2, the soonest I will be able to add to the "unexplained" discussion in detail will be Tuesday. I'm thinking the posts are going to get swamped here in "Evolution The Big Joke," which is more like a night at the pub at the moment. Can you see another area of this forum where a specially dedicated thread could fit? I'm not sure if it's really got anything to do with evolution and creationism, the core of it to me is more to do with epistemology and the nature of skepticism.

Thank you though for your more tempered recent response. I've spoken to some very acerbic people who were calling me a "true believer" full of "woo woo ideas" before I even knew what on earth they meant. It looks like we can at least have a reasoned discussion here (or somewhere).



4 years of depression . . . not too likely it's going to suddenly lift, though it isn't for lack of trying. Actually I'm clear-minded enough to read Sheldrake's book now but I don't have the time because of school and family commitments. I have read "The Sense of Being Stared At" (gotta love these titles), though that discusses more general aspects of the extended mind, and evidence for that. I'll have a look for some links about the "dogs that know" experiments. There are Skeptico podcasts about Sheldrake's own work, as well as the experiment going on without Randi's help -- though I can understand if asking you to listen to one of those is on a par with asking me to listen to Stephen Novella.

I'll pick back through the posts here in a few days' time, LOL.