You often hear atheists say, nothing fails like prayer, and some even claim that scientific

studies have proven that prayer doesn't work. But in today's episode, I'm going to show why

science not only has not disproven the efficacy of prayer, but that it's impossible for science

to do this. Here's atheist Hamat Meta describing the typical kind of study on prayer that

atheists usually cite. That's kind of like the ultimate prayer test, isn't it?

If all these people are praying for you to get better, and let's say they're not praying

for the person next to you who has the exact same problem and you got better, wouldn't

that suggest that prayer had something to do with it?

It's kind of like this ultimate science experiment.

Well, guess what? They've done that experiment. They've done controlled experiments,

at least as much as they could be controlled anyway, where some group of patients in a hospital

are prayed for by strangers, and they don't know about it, and those same strangers do not

pray for the control group. And they kind of see which group does better

guess what there's no difference who would have thought so look prayer doesn't help but there are

three problems with these studies that make them useless when it comes to studying the efficacy of prayer

first there's the problem of an impossible control group. In an experiment,

the control group are the subjects that do not receive the variable under testing. When it comes to

testing prayer, the control group would be a set of people who are not receiving intercessory

healing prayers. But it's impossible to isolate any group of people from prayer. Of course,

scientists could divide a group of sick people into two groups and tell a specific set of volunteers to only pray for one of the groups of these sick people.

The scientists would then observe the patients that the volunteers are praying for and see if they do better, do the same, or do worse than the so-called control group.

But this wouldn't be a true control group,

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