2007-12-31 05:24:13 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Do you mean the effect it has on the person or thing being prayed for? If they don't know about it, the effect is zero. If they do know about it, it has been shown to be detrimental, as it makes them think their condition is worse than they knew. If you mean the effect on the person praying, probably beneficial, since they think they're doing something worthwhile.
2007-12-31 05:28:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
God does nothing except through prayer and everything with prayer.
2008-01-02 04:12:15 · answer #2 · answered by barnowl 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes, you can have 10 people pray and your finding will be that 10 people have spoken into the air. you can have them ask for various things and you can monitor whether they receive it or not. you could use the results as evidence for whether prayer is answered or not. I have used my own prayers as evidence of my finding that their is no god. i did not ask for material things. i asked only that my father stopped physically abusing my mother. this never happened therefore god does not exist...
2007-12-31 05:33:55 · answer #3 · answered by Natural Order 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You should be able to measure the results of prayer. I.e. if you take 1000 patients that have people praying for them and 1000 that do not have people praying for them and then compare the results, you should get an idea if prayer was effective or not.
(Hint: it's been done, and prayer appears to be ineffective at best, in most cases it hurts.)
2007-12-31 05:29:27 · answer #4 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yes....u pray for 1000 time the same thing but it didn't happen.....
2007-12-31 05:29:25 · answer #5 · answered by SkyKing 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Statistics have shown people who prayed recovered from illness a lot faster than those who didn't.
2007-12-31 05:28:44 · answer #6 · answered by Traveler 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Let me know when you measure thought scientifically.. and not just the brain functions of thought.
Point is when if comes to things such as this we can only measure the activity in the brain not what the brain is really thinking
2007-12-31 05:28:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
You can measure the effects. And scientifically, there don't really appear to be any. One or two controversial studies suggested that prayer was effective in helping people who were ill, but they weren't able to pass peer review and replication.
(And one other study suggested that if someone is ill and knows they are being prayed for, they may get worse. Though this is probably because the patients are of the mentality that they must have a serious condition if they need prayer. A reverse placebo, if you will.)
Edit: As to thoughts, you can measure the effects of those, too. IQ tests and psychological testing are the result of studies into that area. Much more effective than brain scans, as prayer can be tracked on brain scans as welll as thought.
2007-12-31 05:28:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Not exactly, but it has been shown to produce no effect.
2007-12-31 05:27:31 · answer #9 · answered by neil s 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Probably not...but you can measure how it effects people and their lives.
2007-12-31 21:06:04 · answer #10 · answered by Dragonfly 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋