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Politics : Should God be replaced?
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To: epicure who wrote (7876)9/7/2001 5:56:58 PM
From: cosmicforce  Read Replies (1) of 28931
 
<How do you know there isn't an invisible almost "godlike" determinism acting in the universe>

I don't. Never claimed to. However, with that said, such a force or agency is by definition not quantitatively detectable by us in any way other than (apparent) randomness. I don't think it hurts to pray and, in fact, several studies have shown that patients who are the targets of prayer groups do better even if the patients don't know they are being prayed for.

[Edit: I'd also like to note that many things won't happen until you visualize them. That is almost magical to me. We have fundamentally changed the probability of coherent light forming in the universe. That began as nothing more than an idea. ]
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