scientific prayer study

A brief overview of the results from the John Templeton Foundation's study of intercessory prayer. Form your opinions how you see fit, I am only relaying the results of the multi-year study.

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[doubtingED]

As Science marches forward looking for real knowledge gained through experimentation, advanced technologies, & experimentation, superstitious ignorance will eventually fall by the wayside. "The proof is in the pudding"! Great Video 5 Stars!

[Mattrix0]

But the outcome of any type of prayer would have effects in the natural world, Therefore it would be able to be observed and studied.

[gsco82]

Very interesting study, the result of which is not surprising at all. The study only demonstrates that prayer by a third party, not connected to the patient or care-givers has no significant effect. I don't really believe in the power of prayer, but if I were to design a study, it would have to involve prayers asking for something significant to the person praying or someone very close to him or her. Much harder to do. Nonetheless I enjoyed your video. Thanks for posting it.

[TheDogVI]

This is so boring i can't sit for 5 mins. I'm going to play UT3 instead. Can't wait for an exciting study, an actually real and reputable study.

[ntr11023]

Thank you for the kind words.

Let me get this straight, instead of responding with a legitimate response, you insult me. Does this mean you don't have a response? If you don't respond with a legitimate response, than you're saying you can't respond to it because you can't argue with the facts. Do you have any evidence to support your theory that science is friendly towards religion?

[deafencryption]

you are really dumb or really brainwashed to think that because science is biased against christianity and scince chritianity and the "god dooone it" mentality created science that science is self bias i know what you meant and i still think you are brainwashed delusional

[ntr11023]

Well, science is a different case. It's the bottom of the ladder, and it's not bias-free. It's biased against Christianity, so that means it has to be biased towards science (aka itself). I guess if you want to get technical about it, you could say it's biased towards evolution. But currently, evolution is the definition of science, so we're back where we started.

[ntr11023]

I will reiterate what I said previously. The purpose of prayer is to ask God for help, not for Him to prove His existence. We ask God for help. We don't command it. Prayer is not something you can base a case against Christianity off of.

Forgive me, but if I'm not mistaken, you have yet to give any legitimate arguments against Christianity. Unless you can prove it's wrong, you can't make a claim like "clearly it's not real".

[deafencryption]

ther is no way to be biased toward your self.. because you hold your own ideas you try to prove your ideas through others bias

[ntr11023]

Allow me to remind you that the purpose of prayer is to ask God for help, not to make Him prove His existence.

[ntr11023]

I don't understand what you're saying.