do you people
2007-07-02 09:33:00 · 18 answers · asked by steven25t 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Sigh.
Lying repeatedly doesn't turn something into a fact. Truth matters, kid.
2007-07-02 09:35:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 3⤋
There have been times when people have gone into remission from illnesses that they were thought to be doomed from. In a lot of cases, their recovery was attributed to prayer. There have also been cases where people have gone into remission from the same types of illnesses, and no prayer was involved at all. People do make recoveries against the odds, but there's no proof that prayer has anything to do with it. If prayer *did* have something to do with it, then why are so many people dying despite having their entire families and fellow church congregants praying for them? You have a thousand people who die despite prayer, and then one person recovers and it's supposed to be "proof" that prayer works? With odds that bad, it can't even be considered *evidence* that prayer works.
2007-07-02 16:40:37 · answer #2 · answered by Jess H 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I find it difficult to believe, i just know that if i'm seriously ill, it's not the church i'm going to, it's the hospital.
However, they're have been cases of medical miracles, where terminally ill people have recovered. Personally i believe it's related to the strong physical constitution of the individual rather than the power of prayer.
2007-07-02 16:40:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Anecdotal evidence cannot "prove" anything. In a world of probabilities there are bound to be some unlikely conincidences. A religious foundation, the Templeton Foundation actually hired doctors to try to prove the efficacy of prayer by using double blind experimentation. The result was that there was no evidence that prayer worked.
2007-07-02 16:40:17 · answer #4 · answered by Dendronbat Crocoduck 6 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Nobody knows the actual cure for cancer. Therefore the person might have come into contact with the cure and not have even known it. That's far easier to believe (for me) then praying to some imaginary invisible man in the sky.
2007-07-02 16:38:36 · answer #5 · answered by Arcangel 4 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Prayer desn't help. There was a very lage study done on EXACTLY that topic.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/31/health/31pray.html?ex=1301461200&en=4acf338be4900000&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
As you can see no difference at all. Well there was a slight one in the post op. complications and it actually favored the control group (the one that wasn't prayed for)
So why would you waste your time?
2007-07-02 16:40:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
Prove it. Prayer only works as a placebo effect, where there isn't really anything physically wrong with a person to begin with.
2007-07-02 16:41:43 · answer #7 · answered by Dawn 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
There is no proof it was prayer. Do you know what it means when a doctor says there is a 70% chance that you will die/get better?
2007-07-02 16:37:50 · answer #8 · answered by punch 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Yeah but every tom, dick and harry clsims ther religion saved someone.... so maybe the person just has enough willpower that the body heals itself!
2007-07-02 16:46:24 · answer #9 · answered by Becca 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
couldn't these so called miracles just have been a random event???
and where was god when they got their disease?
Was he like oh $hit, you weren't supposed to get cancer?
If so then god made a mistake which means he is not perfect because if god controls everything then he would have had to given the person cancer which means he is not nice and if he is the all loving god you portay him as then you can certainly see the flaws of god here
2007-07-02 16:42:55 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Prove prayer caused the cure. And, while you are at it, explain the other 99 cases where prayer did not cure the patient.
2007-07-02 16:38:04 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 1⤋