RE: Prayer does not work
November 18, 2013 at 9:39 am
(This post was last modified: November 18, 2013 at 9:41 am by Tonus.)
(November 17, 2013 at 6:16 pm)Beccs Wrote: I was nearby when his parents were interviewed by the local news station and they thanks god for their son's life, and said that their prayers had been answered.
Not a mention of the highly trained and dedicated staff who had spent so long stabilising him and saving his life.
Makes you wish that the interviewer had asked them why they didn't pray for god to watch over their son so he wouldn't have been involved in a gruesome accident in the first place.
Prayer can work in the same way other forms of self-motivation by affirmation work. If you ever read up on how people use (or try to use) affirmation to improve their mental outlook on life, you will find it very familiar to prayer. Imagine a person who, every single day, mentally recites a few sentences in preparation for the day. That person may be programming his subconscious to motivate him in the direction of what he prays for.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
