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RE: Will the sun rise tomorrow?

If we accept mere possibility as our criterion of acceptance, then we end up accepting an infinite number of things, inasmuch as everything is possible. So as with any other theory, I'd have to see some positive evidence of the efficacy of prayer before I'd accept it. But I haven't seen any. The relatives of atheists and believers leave the hospital in equal numbers. A pope, who is undoubtedly the recipient of many prayers, may live a month in office, the dictator of an atheistic Communist state 50 years.

Somebody actually did a controlled study of the efficacy of prayer not long ago. Not surprisingly, they found none.


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