"The researchers asked the members of three congregations — St. Paul's Monastery in St. Paul; the Community of Teresian Carmelites in Worcester, Mass.; and Silent Unity, a Missouri prayer ministry near Kansas City — to deliver the prayers"It's obvious. They prayed to his noodliness, The Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Supposedly no one knew who they were praying for.
Not by acquaintance. Just the first name and initials of their last names.
"It's obvious."
LOL -
So tell me, did the congregation of St. Paul's Monastery pray to Christ or to St. Paul ?
"Not by acquaintance. Just the first name and initials of their last names."
But the test results supposedly showed "Prayers offered by strangers had no effect on the recovery of people who were undergoing heart surgery, a large and long-awaited study has found."
Therefore they saw NO effect, but since the test conditions say nothing about having any test groups composed of non-strangers, I cannnot see how this result was obtained.