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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: The Philosopher who wrote (26177)9/7/2001 1:25:53 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
It will be interesting to see whether agnostic/atheist community weighs in on this.

That would seem to be a bit premature, not that that ever stopped anyone on SI from opining. The studies have suggested a relationship but no one has proposed an explanation, which is what we'd need to have a discussion. The closest thing I saw to a proposed explanation was this:

<<Still, Harris says, his study bolsters the evidence that prayer works. "To me it almost argues for another intelligence, to have to redirect this very vague information." >>

There's no suggestion of what kind of intelligence this might be or how the prayers get routed and converted into healing. Should we be buying shares in Cisco or sacrificing lambs? Not a hint. Without anything more substantial than a suggestion of a correlation, there's not much to discuss.

Karen
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