Spoonfed team up with HowTheLightGetsIn to explore The Limits of Science

Spoonfed team up with HowTheLightGetsIn to explore The Limits of Science

28 March, 2012
by: Spoonfed Arts Team

Get your thinking caps on...

Exciting news! Spoonfed are teaming up with one of the best festivals in the UK to put on an extra-special event this June. As part of the brilliant HowTheLightGetsIn that takes place every summer down in Hay-on-Wye, we've helped to curate a little treat of a discussion designed to explore a rather hot topic at the moment, namely The Limits of Science.

Despite being a website – and therefore obviously embracing all things technological – we've always been a tad sceptical about the omniscient claims occasionally made on behalf of science. That's part of the reason we're such massive fans of Rupert Sheldrake: he's a brilliant, innovative scientist but also somebody who's unafraid to criticise his own profession and seek to understand its limitations. His theory of morphogenetic fields as outlined in A New Science of Life has also made him more than a little controversial – never a bad thing, in our book.

Sheldrake will be discussing science's strengths and weaknesses with physician, Telegraph columnist and historian of science, James le Fanu. Like Sheldrake, Le Fanu is no fan of dogmatic materialism in science, but unlike Sheldrake, Le Fanu is also openly critical of Darwinian evolutionary theory. Given that Sheldrake's new book is rather pointedly entitled The Science Delusion, visitors can expect the slaying of more than a few sacred cows.

Think editor, commentator and philosopher Stephen Law is in the chair.

The Limits of Science is on Saturday 9th June 2012 at HowTheLightGetsIn

HowTheLightGetsIn runs from 31st May to 10th June 2012.

Read The Truth behind Telepathy - Tom's account of taking part in an experiment with Sheldrake.

Read Tom's review of HowTheLightGetsIn 2010.

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Spoonfed Arts Team