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Thread #100863 Message #2051503
Posted By: Wolfgang
14-May-07 - 11:31 AM
Thread Name: BS: Why should anyone believe in 'God'?
Subject: RE: BS: Why should anyone believe in 'God'?
Long-Awaited Medical Study Questions the Power of Prayer
That's the newest and largest study with a failry good (though not perfect) design.
the researchers found no differences between those patients who were prayed for and those who were not...a significantly higher number of the patients who knew that they were being prayed for — 59 percent — suffered complications, compared with 51 percent of those who were uncertain.
The study has not been performed by skeptic out for a negative finding:
The study cost $2.4 million, and most of the money came from the John Templeton Foundation, which supports research into spirituality.
Wolfgang