(May 16, 2014 at 9:09 pm)Heywood Wrote: Second, Prayer studies will contain a control group of people for whom prayers are not offered. But the researchers cannot guarantee that prayers are not offered for this group. A patient who is part of the not prayed for control group.....may mention he has a heart problem to a friend not part of or privy to the study....the friend then says a prayer for the patient. It is simply impossible to have an untainted control group. Somebody, outside the study is always going to know the patients condition.....and might pray for them.
Hang on, not so fast. What if a prayer study s done on people that don't believe in god. An experiment done on people that will indicate their religious affiliations among other information. That can ensure their friends don't pray for them. I'm talking about a study of this nature being done in a country with low religious statistics in their population like Norway and such.
The nature of your argument is evasive. It mirrors the nature of god himself. Perhaps you should ask yourself why all the cloak and dagger stuff?
8000 years before Jesus, the Egyptian god Horus said, "I am the way, the truth, the life."
