James Webster:

The simple fact of world human population growth over the past few hundred years terminates any rational discussion about a concept requiring even two earth lives per soul.

The numbers of people alive in a mortal body at any one time, are growing exponentially now, and it has been calculated that already we have passed the point when, at a moment, there are more people than there have ever been born up to a life-time ago.

Also, according to Mr. Bob Ralph, lecturer at the University of Aberdeen [Scotland], in 1941 the world population was about 2.3 billion. Since then it has doubled to around 5.1 billion, and at the present rate of increase of about 2% per year, it will be around 8.2 billion by 2025.

So, in what is now approximating to an expected life-time (84 years) we shall have more than three times the people, leaving no time at all for the departed to even say 'hello' to those who have gone on, before they are a new-born infant again.

As a general principle, generally to be applied, the notion of reincarnation manifestly now can seen to be absurd... What we are reduced to, to keep the concept alive, is the postulate that God is causing souls to be brought from [other] planets ... to keep the pot boiling...

Editor's last word:

All this becomes more and more fantastic, curiouser and curiouser. When math, science, and rational thought are set aside to maintain private belief in "R," we've now entered the world of cult religion and superstition.