(May 17, 2014 at 5:09 am)jesus_wept Wrote:(May 17, 2014 at 4:57 am)Heywood Wrote: You cannot show with a scientific study that prayer doesn't work. There is no shifting of the burden of proof....there is only the reality of the situation.
I don't need to show any scientific studies to prove prayer doesn't work, you need to prove prayer does. And until you can I shall simply look at all the starving theist children and presume prayer is complete and utter nonsense. No studies are needed.
Negative Jesus_Wept,
If I claimed that prayer worked....then yes I would need to show that it works. Since I do not make that claim, there is no need for me to show it to be true.
I am claiming prayer studies are fatally flawed. I gave reasons why they are fatally flawed. That's all that I am required to do.
