Thank you for the details on the journal article. Here's a link if anyone else is interested in checking it out
Elsevier. Once there do a search for 'prayer.'
There are actually a couple of interesting articles there. I am not sure this is the answer "once and for all" though. An MD from Boston responded to the article with a letter to the editor that stated, "In conclusion, although this study overcomes some of the statistical hurdles that encumbered prior studies on prayer and medicine, the failure of the authors to rigorously control their independent variables invalidates their comparison of this with prior studies and so does little to advance our understanding of the medical application of intercessory prayer." (Eric J. Burks, Am Heart J 2006; 152:e41-e42)
In my experience there is no way to talk people into believing in God or to talk them out of it (maybe belief is just one of those mysteries of the universe). Particularly since you can't lump everyone into the same pattern, i.e. all Christians do not believe the same things nor do all atheists. We all believe our own version. For example,
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| Originally Posted by workerbee We need to make up a God so we won't feel so small and insignificant.
workerbee |
I think we need to believe there is
no God so that we won't feel so small and insignificant.
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