RE: NBC article prayer fails in study.
May 15, 2013 at 9:04 am
(This post was last modified: May 15, 2013 at 9:05 am by Faith No More.)
(May 15, 2013 at 8:56 am)Tonus Wrote: Mildly interesting, but it's too easy to see how this plays out. Theists will say that this test is not valid for any number of reasons-- you can't put god to the test like this, you can't test the supernatural scientifically, and so on.
How about someone even more righteous was praying that the prayers in the study would not be answered?
It's like I said in the other thread, they will come up with excuse after excuse until the whole thing becomes unfalsifiable.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell