Before this latest study came out, there were studies showing that prayer DID help people.
Moreover, I believe that these studies fall under the sin of "testing God."
If I was seriously sick, personally, I would take no part in such a thing.
Doggg, the placebo effect has been shown to help people, so simply "helping people" is not sufficient evidence or reasoning to believe something is true or authentic.
In fact the case may be that all prayer is actually an exercise in the placebo effect.
That prompted me to wonder, what minimum level of effectiveness would prayer need to have before clergymen would publicly abandon health insurance (and doctors) and rely on prayer healing of themselves and their families?
Would they do it if prayer were effective 10% of the time?
Would they do it if prayer were effective 25% of the time?
Would they do it if prayer were effective 50% of the time?
You know, like semi-bluffing (only different).
Last edited by VP$IP; 10-22-2011 at 01:33 PM.
Reason: semi-spelling
