Anecotal evidence isn't just the lowest form, it's not evidence, well, certainly not in this case anyway...
Why? Because simply:
What on earth makes you think it's God? Even if for some bizarre reason to jumped to the conclusion that praying did the trick, and you were somehow right - who says that prayer would only work if it was because of God?
Just because some Book tells you so?
It could be one of uncountable number of other undetectable "gods" besides THE God... The Christian "God" - :S - ... and there is no more evidence for the Christian God than any other God... and since this, of course, includes the Bible not being evidence in any way, then it could just as easily be any of these other countless undetectable Gods...or it could be a "miracle" of "prayer" without any God being involved at all...
...Why could it? Well, because there's no evidence that prayer is even any more likely with a God than without one! It would be a totally fucking crazy miracle in either case!!
So, even if it was evidence of prayer then that doesn't make it evidence of God. And, of course, it's not evidence prayer since an anecdote is not evidence....
...let's put it this way, it's more likely that the both of you are hallucinating. Or even that the entire human race is, than it is that prayer works - and especially, if there's a "God" attached to it, without explanation.
EvF
Why? Because simply:
What on earth makes you think it's God? Even if for some bizarre reason to jumped to the conclusion that praying did the trick, and you were somehow right - who says that prayer would only work if it was because of God?
Just because some Book tells you so? It could be one of uncountable number of other undetectable "gods" besides THE God... The Christian "God" - :S - ... and there is no more evidence for the Christian God than any other God... and since this, of course, includes the Bible not being evidence in any way, then it could just as easily be any of these other countless undetectable Gods...or it could be a "miracle" of "prayer" without any God being involved at all...
...Why could it? Well, because there's no evidence that prayer is even any more likely with a God than without one! It would be a totally fucking crazy miracle in either case!!
So, even if it was evidence of prayer then that doesn't make it evidence of God. And, of course, it's not evidence prayer since an anecdote is not evidence....
...let's put it this way, it's more likely that the both of you are hallucinating. Or even that the entire human race is, than it is that prayer works - and especially, if there's a "God" attached to it, without explanation.
EvF
