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Does Prayer Really Work? Does God Even Care?

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Does Prayer Really Work? Does God Even Care?
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RE: Does Prayer Really Work? Does God Even Care?
August 17, 2014 at 7:56 am (This post was last modified: August 17, 2014 at 7:57 am by Thumpalumpacus.)
(August 16, 2014 at 10:13 am)Michael Wrote: Brakeman. I think it's entirely appropriate to use praying people to help understand what is going when they pray.

Without a control group, you can't logically assign any causal link to prayer. An experiment that doesn't isolate the phenomenon it purports to examine is poorly designed and of little value.

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Does Prayer Really Work? Does God Even Care?

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RE: Does Prayer Really Work? Does God Even Care? - by ShaMan - August 15, 2014 at 10:07 pm
RE: Does Prayer Really Work? Does God Even Care? - by Tonus - August 16, 2014 at 11:00 am
RE: Does Prayer Really Work? Does God Even Care? - by Thumpalumpacus - August 17, 2014 at 7:56 am
RE: Does Prayer Really Work? Does God Even Care? - by Zack - August 17, 2014 at 3:41 am

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