On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 09:39 -0800, Brent Meeker wrote: > > Good old-fashioned miracles are not lawlike, which is what makes them > > subject to empirical verification. If God is a Protestant, then an > > examination of a list of lottery ticket winners or people with > > serious illnesses should show that Protestants are statistically more > > likely to have their prayers answered than Catholics, Muslims or > > atheists (who wish for things, even if they don't actually pray). If > > not, then either God is not a Protestant or there is no point in > > praying for anything even if you and he are both Protestants. And yet > > I doubt that there are any Protestants, Catholics or Muslims who be > > at all perturbed by the findings of such a study, or countless other > > possible studies or experiments. > > That's because for hundreds, if not thousands, of years their theologians > have had to explain why their God is invisible, unnoticable, > incompehensible, and undetectable. So a null experimental outcome, > like the recent studies of the efficacy of healing prayer, is ho-hum.
For a rather lengthy, straight-faced treatment of intercessory prayer and victims of amputation: http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/god5.htm -Johnathan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
