Repeating myself, but the effect of religion can be investigated
statistically. These days many medical, biological, and physical studies
are statistical. Could even have blind studies. For example, we ask a
group of non-literate Christians in Africa to pray by name for half the
cancer patients at Sloan-Kettering without tellling the patients.
billwald@juno.com
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Hi Bill,
I remembered the name of the doctor. (sorry, everyone, about pushing the
wrong address button) Dr. Larry Dossey has conducted experiments where
patients were unaware of who was being prayed for. Prayer was determined to
have a statistically significant effect. Also the Princeton anomalies lab
has determined that ESP has a tiny but consistently measurable effect.
Both of these results are probably not large enough to satify "believers",
and "non believers" merely declare fraud. In the present climate of
materialism, we will never know. As one materialist once said,
"Why, I wouldn't believe that stuff even if it were true!"
Bertvan
http://members.aol.com/bertvan
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