(September 30, 2009 at 3:24 pm)solarwave Wrote: I'm not going to try to make out faith is just like science but let me show how faith could work along those line. Please dont kill me for putting faith in the form of science lol.
1) Is there a God
2) Research on God
3) If there is a God then He will answer genuine pray in some way and will be faithful
4) Pray and put your faith in God and see what happens
5) I did God do as I thought
6) Tell people
Of course you can object that you have prayed and nothing happen, but there you go.
Solarwave,
Nice, except all the results must be verifyable under peer review and your definitions need to be solid. "See what happens" needs to have a metric involved; for example you could use penny flips and pray for heads. If heads comes up more often than tails, in a statistically significant way, then you can publish your results and win a templeton award, maybe. It has been done before and there are even some studies on patients but the results were very slightly negatively correlated with prayer. I can't quote the study sorry, but I am sure if you google "scientific prayer test" you could find some interesting tests. Include Templeton to be more specific.
Rhizo
