Occasionally, I like to read these reader’s write debates between Christians and atheists, and today’s TT features yet another installment of this neverending back and forth. At issue is an article that TT published a few weeks ago about a Harvard study that said prayer wasn’t scientifically provable. The study refuted the findings of a seriously flawed Columbia University, which said prayer had an 11% success rate (basically something that ridiculous).
Anyway, this guy, Gray Easterling, wrote into complain about how secular the TT is and how it should have never published that story and how the story served no purpose other than to insult the faithful. Blah. Take it like a man, I say. As Mr. Shaw’s letter pointed out today, the TT publishes PLENTY of religion-friendly stories. Heck, they even have a Religion Section on Sundays. It’s not as if the religious voice is being censored. Geez.
The truth is that the story was not the TT’s. It was an international news item that was featured in almost all of the major national newspapers and all of the major cable news networks.
I think it was an important story, because, at the very least, it has the possibility of convincing one person to seek medical care for an illness or ailment instead of relying solely on prayer.
CenLamar 
It astounds me that you and this guy from Nact. would try to intellectually engage the conservative religious zealots. The Shaw guy is extremely intelligent and frankly sounds like a higher-education teacher of some sort but all he ever does is dazzle us folks that see it his way already and piss of the thumpers.
It’s fun. That’s the only reason. I know I’m not really engaging these people. If anything, I’m attracting the morons. But hey, I’m having fun.
We all know that God could never explain in great detail how he created the universe to people on Earth today or anytime in the past. It would be like a rocket scientist explaining space travel to an infant. He would have to dumb it down and make it simple so the uneducated could grasp the basics. Yet, I can’t help thinking of my two teenagers arguing about whether or not life exists outside of our world. Neither has much evidence for their argument, but they will argue till pain is felt, screaming occurs, and time out is called.