tylertxanreborn
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We've all heard it before--pastor X prays for the man with cancer-and he's healed-a miracle right? Errr on closer examination is it not possible that associating the prayer with the cancer remission is a logical error of the first kind? (assuming a correlation where one in actuality does not exist). If 10,000 people were prayed for and of these 10,000 2 had a remission and 2 died the day they were prayed for and the bulk of the people survived the mean survival time for that cancer--is that a miracle. (Especially since you find the same data for 10,000 people not prayed for (google NYTimes article on prayer and curative properties). Isn't it possible that people misconstrue the physical manifestation of statistics as a miracle?