(December 11, 2012 at 8:53 am)CliveStaples Wrote:Ah, I see... I thought you were going for the "if it works once, it's coincidence".(December 11, 2012 at 8:44 am)pocaracas Wrote: I think you wanted to finish with "If all prayers work, you have evidence that disproves atheism." Otherwise, you fall into the coincidence well.
If it's just coincidence, then the prayer didn't work.
So it needs to work a lot of times (ideally, always) for the coincidence factor to be negligible.