Very cool, if true

:) I almost don't care: I know perfectly well what the result will be, so I don't feel especially inclined to have lots more studies (although sufficiently many people do have the result in doubt, it's probably worth having at least a couple of big studies to point to).

In fact, on a similar question, I was very interested to realise that some (intellectual) christian friends _did_ have a doubt. I assumed people I knew would say "in theory God could intervene in the world, but you will never ACTUALLY find any double-blind evidence of it", but it turned out not to be that clear-cut.

OTOH, it might be consistent that God responds to some prayers, but only personal ones you really mean, not "Oh, I hope this Angela K I've never met gets better". Obviously I don't believe that, but experimental honesty compells me to admit it ought to have real world effects but be very hard to actually test.