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Article #13780Re: Does God need to prove He exists?
From: Ben Dolan
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:04
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:04
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rbwinn <rbwinn3@juno.com> wrote: > > > According to scripture unless a prayer is asked in faith it will not > > > be answered. > > > Robert B. Winn > > > > And according to empirical evidence, a prayer asked in faith will not be > > answered either. > > What do you call empirical evidence? > Robert B. Winn You hang out in physics newsgroups and you don't know what empirical evidence is? I'm talking about peer reviewed, double-blind studies on the efficacy--or more precisely, the complete lack of efficacy--of prayer. And incidently, did it ever occur to your little Sunday school noodle that "according to scripture" really doesn't carry any weight in making a claim like this? Do you understand why, child?
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