RE: I need Research backup for atheism debate
August 8, 2013 at 9:49 am
(This post was last modified: August 8, 2013 at 10:02 am by pineapplebunnybounce.)
Hey, welcome.
You ask for a lot of things ... most are unnecessary for the "atheist" argument.
But I'll weigh in on a few things that are already up my alley.
1) Clinical trials of prayer studies are like ... LOL ok? Prayer studies are a joke. I've never looked one up in my life. Because you cannot control for shit. You are trusting that the people who said they prayed, prayed. How do you know the ones who were not prayed for were ACTUALLY not prayed for? It's crazy, they have loved ones too, some religious. The inability to even control for the one variable you're testing for just makes the entire study worthless. I'm also of the opinion that money is better spent researching real stuff. And even if it can be controlled for and it showed efficacy beyond placebo effect, it does not follow that god exists. The entire thing doesn't make sense to me.
Edit: 3) I don't see the point of this exercise, as well. Because there are plenty of fiction out there with no contradictions in them. Having no contradictions =/= real. It's irrelevant to whether or not god exists.
4) Give them a textbook. If they are delusional enough to deny textbook science using evidence from a bible, they're too far gone.
You ask for a lot of things ... most are unnecessary for the "atheist" argument.
But I'll weigh in on a few things that are already up my alley.
1) Clinical trials of prayer studies are like ... LOL ok? Prayer studies are a joke. I've never looked one up in my life. Because you cannot control for shit. You are trusting that the people who said they prayed, prayed. How do you know the ones who were not prayed for were ACTUALLY not prayed for? It's crazy, they have loved ones too, some religious. The inability to even control for the one variable you're testing for just makes the entire study worthless. I'm also of the opinion that money is better spent researching real stuff. And even if it can be controlled for and it showed efficacy beyond placebo effect, it does not follow that god exists. The entire thing doesn't make sense to me.
Edit: 3) I don't see the point of this exercise, as well. Because there are plenty of fiction out there with no contradictions in them. Having no contradictions =/= real. It's irrelevant to whether or not god exists.
4) Give them a textbook. If they are delusional enough to deny textbook science using evidence from a bible, they're too far gone.
