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This was buried deep in the "Health News" section of Yahoo. It's a good counterpoint to the "New Study to Show Prayer Works" story Darrel posted in the religion section, huh?

The quotes from the guy with the Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health at the Duke University Medical Center are laugh-out-loud priceless! (How embarrassing that I once had surgery at Duke . . . ) Funny also how the various religious doctors, etc. had all kinds of excuses as to why this experiment didn't work in their favor, but had nothing to say about why those patients who knew they were being prayed for had a HIGHER rate of complications.

I'm adding Paul Kurtz to my list of intellectual heroes. Bravo, Prof. Kurtz!

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Edited by Savonarola 30Mar2006 11:40: shortened URL

DAR
Prayer does another massive belly flop when tested. Just as one would expect.

D.
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"Love songs transcend, transport, because
there's such a thing as love. But hymns
and prayers have feeble tunes because
there are no gods."
--Jim Crace

It may have been buried in Yahoo, but it was on the NYT headline email today.

As to your Crace quote - he obviously doesn't know much about religious music. From the Black spirituals to the "great striding fugues" of Bach and the like, religious music is some of the most powerful created in the western world - because it IS love music. The "perfect" entity the music is about or to happens to be mythical, which makes it more powerful - the "beloved" entity is literally everything the composer's heart desires, with no reality to get in the way.