Interesting Links for 28-03-2012
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andrewducker- Astoundingly, new research into the power of prayer on heart surgery finds it has no effect
- Sitting down all day is killing you
- Tory MP complains of Gurkhas “sitting” and “wandering” in his town
- Moon Rock Analysis Casts Doubt on Lunar Origins
- Pirate Party is now a force in German politics
- The results of the biggest ever enquiry into homeopathy
- One Drug to Shrink All Tumors
- Health and Social Care Bill: a summary of the amendments
- How Angry Birds normalises war crimes.
- What language is for
- The tweet police - locking people up for offensive speech is going too far.
- The UK's tycoon tax - not that impressive this year, much more impressive in the next few
- Disability rights campaigner suffers abuse for campaigning for disability rights
- Actor from aborted Akira remake reveals changes that would have ruined it
- Warner Bros. fight with Superman creators is about to get uglier
- Why power generators are terrified of solar (with graphs to compare!)
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Date: 2012-03-28 07:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-28 07:45 pm (UTC)(Some day I will learn to read. Today is not that day.)
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Date: 2012-03-28 07:51 pm (UTC)(Admittedly, I got halfway through the first sentence before realising I'd read it before and checking the date. And it's not like the research got it's methodology wrong, or isn't the most current and most definitive statement on the matter.)
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Date: 2012-03-29 04:01 pm (UTC)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.