RE: Prayer Studies
May 17, 2014 at 5:36 am
(This post was last modified: May 17, 2014 at 5:43 am by jesus_wept.)
(May 17, 2014 at 5:16 am)Heywood Wrote:(May 17, 2014 at 5:09 am)jesus_wept Wrote: 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.
And I'm saying the studies are also fatally flawed because praying is complete nonsense and none of them will work for that reason.
No scientific studies are needed to prove prayer doesn't work, instead you (or theism in general) needs to conduct some studies to prove they do... And then start praying for all the dying theist children..
Let's be honest here though. The only reason you're trying to say they're flawed is to argue from ignorance and claim we can't prove they don't work therefore they could work.