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Quote by: Simonius  There are some that argue that statistics show that those who pray and are prayed for are more likely to recover from medical problems. If these figures show a higher anomaly than the placebo effect then they suggest that prayer has power, if prayer has power then it suggests the possbility (but does not prove), the existence of an interventionist entity.
Of course 84% of statistics are made up. |
Are there studies showing that people who are prayed for, but don't know it, have a better rate of recovery than those who are not prayed for? I am not aware of any. The same could be said for people who are told they are being prayed for but are not ... do they recover differently from the first group of people?
Besides, the whole prayer-speeding-recovery theory can easily be interchanged with positive mental attitude theory (or the Anthony Robbins motivational speech theory). On top of that, different people heal differently in any case ... much of the reasons some people recover from cancer and some don't are still a mystery ... you can call it 'God's will' ... I'll just chalk it up to your metabolism, genetic makeup, lifestyle, mental attitude ... and really the roll of the dice.