RE: Prayer Studies
May 17, 2014 at 12:43 am
(This post was last modified: May 17, 2014 at 12:46 am by Chas.)
(May 16, 2014 at 10:23 pm)Heywood Wrote: Prayer studies make the assumption that God exists and then proceed to test if God answers prayers. That is why they go to lengths to recruit prayers to actually pray.
No, they don't. Why would you think that?
It is a test of prayer with no assumption of mechanism.
(May 16, 2014 at 10:29 pm)Heywood Wrote:(May 16, 2014 at 10:27 pm)Losty Wrote: True, but you can't argue that all prayers are scientific except the ones that are 'answered'
I am not arguing prayer works. I am arguing prayer studies are fatally flawed and cannot be relied upon as evidence prayer works or doesn't work.
With that statement you show that you are assuming the existence of god.
Because you are basing your statement of a flaw on a test of the god you are assuming exists. Without a god to be annoyed by the test - no flaw.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
