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Failed Prayer Studies: A Response

March 10, 2018 by Randal

The topic of scientific prayer studies recently came up on Twitter. As an outcome of that exchange, I committed to responding to the failure of one particular prayer study to establish a link between prayer and healing. The study in question is discussed in an article titled “Power of prayer flunks an unusual test” where […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, healing, petitionary prayer, prayer, providence

Does God’s perfection undermine petitionary prayer?

April 26, 2014 by Randal

In the comment thread to my latest podcast, “Travis Dumsday on the atheist’s duty to pray,” philosopher Robert Gressis offered an objection to the practice of prayer. The objection is based on the assumption that God is a maximally perfect being (i.e. the Anselmian conception), and thus perfectly good and all knowing. Gressis explains: assuming that we’re […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Anselm, foreknowledge, God, perfect being, petitionary prayer, providence

Petitionary prayer and the final hours of a Skoal hockey puck

May 14, 2011 by Randal

Robert offered the following response to my delightful expostulation on a Bible being so inspired you can’t tell it’s inspired: “And intercessory prayer is so effective it’s effectiveness can’t be tested to have a measurable effect on our world.” Robert then added an explanatory notation for his statement. That qualification is helpful. But I’m going […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: evidence, inference to the best explanation, intercessory prayer, justification, naturalism, petitionary prayer, rationality, reductionism

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