Careful tests of the efficacy of prayer have always failed even when Christians did the testing. Thirty top US astrologers could not identify someone's personality profile from their birth date. Belief in the supernatural and in religion is usually conditioned. It runs in families and peer groups. Such people want a simple explanation for everything, even if it is inadequate. Rather than admit they do not know, they will accept a supernatural explanation and they prefer easy childish explanations to proper ones that are too hard for their brains. Science hurts their brains, but God loves them. That is the distinction!
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