1. Stray radio broadcast signals

2. Ordinary noise mistaken as words

3. Unnoticed voices in the environment caught in the recording

4. Imagination of the practitioner or witness

5. The thought of living people

6. The voice of deceased people

For #1, Alexander MacRae has recorded EVP in a Mil-Spec faraday cage. Others have verified that EVP are not stray radio as well. See Eliminating radio frequency contamination for EVP

For #2 and 3, we recommend using a control recorder for field recording. If the utterance is on both recorders, it should be set aside. We also use listening panels intended to establish that an utterance is appropriate for the circumstance and whether or not it can be considered a response. If women are talking about beer in the next room and you record "I love you ... John" in John's voice when you ask, "John, are you with me today?", then you can expect that the utterance is not environmental.

For #4, we have a problem with people new to EVP, in that they often do not know what to expect. However, we have established via listening panels that others hear these as we do. Voice analysis has matched recordings of the person peaking while alive and in the EVP to greater than 98% certainty of the same speaker.

5 and 6 are a little more difficult. We have intentionally and unintentionally recorded the thoughts of living people. So, we know some EVP are initiated by still living people. The Survival Hypothesis predicts this. We are pretty sure that nothing physical shields from psi energy, and that our distance and time are not relevant to personality in the etheric (living or dead). The 4Cell study showed this. Consequently, there is no obvious way to test this problem.

We agree that people thinking they are making contact with a loved one are probably making contact with that loved one. We can prove they have EVP but we cannot prove they are not thinking the "I love you" message in the voice as they remember their loved one. If a practitioner records for a person on the other side of the world, the Survival Hypothesis predicts that the remote "sitter" can still have an influence on the recording even without knowing the time.

For the purpose of science, we cannot be so definite and must say that we have a message but do not know who initiated it with any certainty.

So this long answer is summarized by saying that EVP is the best evidence we know of that is objective, and examples of it are all over the Internet.

Question: How can you use transcommunication to study creation of life?

Answer: We do not follow what religious groups have done with the question. Some groups have excellent scientists.

Here is what we think can be demonstrate. It is possible to ask "Hypothetical Communicating Entity (HCE)" (to use a term from Gary Schwartz) to produce a voice in recording media via an audio recorder. The resulting message will be reasonably correct as judged by a blind listing panel, indicating that the HCE has responded as asked. In a challenge, AA-EVP members have done this by asking for and recording a message stating "Mary had a little lamb."

This is the essence of EVP.

For EVP to occur, a HCE must cause a physical process to respond to an intelligent influence to produce an objective result. According to the Survival Hypothesis, the HCE exists in a nonphysical aspect of reality and is presumably a deceased person or an entity with the same or similar energetic characteristics (i.e., not physical).

There are a number of ways similar influence has been asked for and received, often under very controlled conditions. Gary Schwartz's new project may test this concept in his lab in an attempt to determine if the HCE or the person's subconscious is communicating.

The HCE is at least conceptually the same as an entity influencing evolution. Since we are talking about physical processes the HSC's ability to influence electrical processes in the recorder see Physical processes involved in trans-etheric influence should be similar to the need to influence a chemical or biological process. As such, it should be possible to ask a HCE to first, influence a chemical process, and then more complex biological processes. Not knowing how life started, it is difficult to know what to ask an HCE to demonstrate.