(March 15, 2010 at 6:41 pm)Watson Wrote: "When theists make claims about the healing power or prayer, that's medical science."
I'd like to point out here that, while faith healing does address medical problems, if healing prayer worked in the implicated manner then it would be a suspension of medical principles that healed the person, not a quickening or or bolstering of medical help.
You need to visit Why Won't God Heal Amputees?
http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/
Faith Healing never seems to work in any situation where it is measurable or demonstrable. A whole shitload of morons praying for one soldier maimed in Iraq to grow back a limb would, if it happened, do more to advance their sorry vision of a deity than anything else.
Sadly, ole god doesn't seem to be up to the task.