MixedNuts comments on Religion's Claim to be Non-Disprovable - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 08 February 2012 11:32:26AM 3 points [-]

someone praying for a disease to be cured is certainly putting a non-negligible probability mass on "There are things that listen to me pray and can cure disease".

Note that P(the effectiveness of prayer is greater than zero | there is no god) > P(the effectiveness of prayer is greater than that of a placebo | there is no god).

Comment author: MixedNuts 10 February 2012 11:38:47AM 1 point [-]

I did think of that, but praying for someone else's disease to be cured, without telling them, certainly qualifies.