(June 23, 2013 at 5:14 am)fr0d0 Wrote: So how can you know that every prayer isn't answered consistently? I find this an astounding claim.
Prayers are always answered according to Gods will. 100% consistently..
Here's a fun experiment to try. Next time you talk to yourself pray, do it to Zeus or Quetzacoatl or Ceiling Cat. Maybe do it many times and compare the consistency of results with the bog standard stuff to your own pet gods. Take some time to consider the conclusion instead of rationalising it away.
(June 23, 2013 at 7:42 am)fr0d0 Wrote: Studies measure the supernatural!?
All the time. Check out the above, which, while maybe not exactly up to JREF standards and not offering a cash prize, is at least easy to do since it tests exactly what is claimed of what you say you do anyway.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
