Friday, October 17, 2003
The Power of Prayer
In the largest study to date they've found no evidence to indicate that prayer helps to heal the sick. Dr. Krucoff had suprisingly found that there could be evidence to indicate prayer helped in much smaller studies. He extended the study to over 750 people where names were drawn at random and sent to 12 prayer groups. He found no signifcant differences in the recover of people prayed for vs. those who were not. Of course, anyone with a vested interest (ie. church leaders) praised the smaller studies but have quickly backtracked on this latest study criticizing it as crude and you cannot test god in this fashion. I guess that's to be expected.
In the largest study to date they've found no evidence to indicate that prayer helps to heal the sick. Dr. Krucoff had suprisingly found that there could be evidence to indicate prayer helped in much smaller studies. He extended the study to over 750 people where names were drawn at random and sent to 12 prayer groups. He found no signifcant differences in the recover of people prayed for vs. those who were not. Of course, anyone with a vested interest (ie. church leaders) praised the smaller studies but have quickly backtracked on this latest study criticizing it as crude and you cannot test god in this fashion. I guess that's to be expected.
