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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Neocon who wrote (26190)9/7/2001 2:37:56 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (3) of 82486
 
It is merely not done according to mechanical rules.....


If the studies pan out and there is a correlation between volume/intensity/length of prayers or number of prayers and the healing of the prayee, that's pretty mechanical. It wouldn't take a deity to make those determinations once the system were up and running. Ongoing operation would be quite mechanical.

As for the specifications for the system, it's hard to imagine any self-respecting deity setting up a system that metes out healing based on the efforts of prayers. Particularly when the most deserving people might not have a set of prayers to act in their behalf. Wouldn't this deity be more likely to reward the most deserving with healing rather than the most popular? Or put some weight on the worthiness of the prayers? Those performing the study would have no way to factor in any other considerations included by the deity.

So if the studies measure a correlation, any deity we could infer would be one who just accedes to the study criteria formulated by mere human subjects. Not much of a deity, I'd say. OTOH, if we had a deity who thought for itself, we'd have no way to set up a study to measure it. We couldn't know the criteria. And we couldn't know how the prayers and the prayees measured up to them.

If anyone ever comes up with a theory about this, it could only be a scientific one.

Karen
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