Is god playing a sick joke on humanity?

[WilfordBrimley]

A decade-long medical study involving over 1,800 patients has shown some interesting results:

1. Prayers offered by strangers had no effect on the recovery of people who were undergoing heart surgery.

2. Patients who knew they were being prayed for had a higher rate of post-operative complications like abnormal heart rhythms (most likely a reverse-placebo effect)

How do the religious explain these results?

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/31/health/31pray.html

 

[Justamessenger]

Do you Always believe what you read? especially liberal press NY times. try doing your own survey or talk to God about it.

 

[Greg]

Either that or a moral experiment! Humans have played the sick joke on themselves! Animals are better off because they don't do this to themselves.

 

[mMachineHeadm]

By ignoring them, of course.

 

[itssmee1]

'god' is a sick joke on humanity. And those who pray might as well be talking on a phone that has been unplugged (cell phone - battery missing).

 

[provethatidon'texist]

yea placebo. psychology. period. nothing else.

 

[ErnestoCheGuevara]

No, Catholicism is. God doesn't exist, it's the whole concept of God that the catholic church uses to control people.