Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.
Michael Shermer
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- Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known.
- Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.
- Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.
- But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.
- Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.