Efficacy of prayer

[Runningman]

I’m not trying to create issues, it’s just something thats been bothering me. How do we continue to pray when we have empirical evidence over multiple studies that prayer does not affect medical outcomes and could be extrapolated to suggest that prayer doesn’t affect anything at all?

This is coming from someone who prays consistently and has and will continue to pray for those who ask on this site.

I’m hoping some of you can give me some insight. God bless you.

Drawing a conclusion about the world wide population of praying people, based on a small sample that is chosen in order to make it appear the population, on average, is different than it actually is.

This is one of the many logical fallacies used to perpetuate misinformation and attack God. It's entirely possible these "prayer studies" were designed to lead Christians astray with the goal of getting them to abandon their faith. I think that much is obvious.

 

[Runningman]

Drawing a conclusion about the world wide population of praying people, based on a small sample that is chosen in order to make it appear the population, on average, is different than it actually is.

This is one of the many logical fallacies used to perpetuate misinformation and attack God. It's entirely possible these "prayer studies" were designed to lead Christians astray with the goal of getting them to abandon their faith. I think that much is obvious.

I also might add to my previous post, this is known as the invalid inference logical fallacy. "prayer didn't seem to do anything for the individuals who did the study so it doesn't work for anyone." Doesn't prove prayer isn't effective.

 

[Gojira]

I also might add to my previous post, this is known as the invalid inference logical fallacy. "prayer didn't seem to do anything for the individuals who did the study so it doesn't work for anyone." Doesn't prove prayer isn't effective.

Yeah, you know, I trust this "study" as far as I could throw it.