http://www.opposingviews.com/questions/can-prayer-heal Opposing Views - Can Prayer Heal? http://www.opposingviews.com/counters/studies-are-great-people-are-not-test-tubes There are no good studies to document the healing power of prayer, and there never will be! How do you control for level of Faith? Efficacy of types of prayer? etc. Amoxicillin cures sometimes, sometimes it does nothing. Even evidence based medicine... Dr. Bob Paeglow Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:00:08 -0600 http://www.opposingviews.com/counters/studies-are-great-people-are-not-test-tubes http://www.opposingviews.com/arguments/the-healing-power-of-prayer I would like to weight in on the controversy regarding whether or not prayer heals. As a board certified family physician, I complete about 5,000 patient visits per year. I ask each patient if they’d like me to pray with them before we finish a... Dr. Bob Paeglow Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:46:43 -0600 http://www.opposingviews.com/arguments/the-healing-power-of-prayer http://www.opposingviews.com/arguments/prayer-ministers-to-spiritual-aspects-of-a-patients-life I concede that prayer does not always seem to be effective in healing every patient. I would argue by the way, that neither does traditional medicine. My point is that not everyone’s definition of healing is the same, nor is their sense of... Dr. Bob Paeglow Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:45:31 -0600 http://www.opposingviews.com/arguments/prayer-ministers-to-spiritual-aspects-of-a-patients-life http://www.opposingviews.com/arguments/a-medically-documented-case-of-an-irrational-outcome Allow me to describe an example of the healing power of prayer in one of my patients that will better illustrate my belief. I examined a 24-year-old young man a few years ago who was diagnosed with either an osteosarcoma, or an aggressive high... Dr. Bob Paeglow Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:43:30 -0600 http://www.opposingviews.com/arguments/a-medically-documented-case-of-an-irrational-outcome http://www.opposingviews.com/arguments/evidence-is-solely-anecdotal-and-unconvincing Evidence: In my article “Healing Prayer & Distant Healing,” I review several major scientific studies that have tested whether prayer can heal. These include studies by Randolph Byrd; Fred Sicher and Elisabeth Targ; William S. Harris; Kwang... Robert T. Carroll, PhD Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:51:01 -0600 http://www.opposingviews.com/arguments/evidence-is-solely-anecdotal-and-unconvincing http://www.opposingviews.com/arguments/studies-show-no-healing-effect-from-prayer A scientific study on healing prayer would attempt to isolate prayer as a causal factor in healing. The best causal studies use controls, randomize the assignments of the participants to a control group (whose members would not be prayed for, in... Robert T. Carroll, PhD Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:48:00 -0600 http://www.opposingviews.com/arguments/studies-show-no-healing-effect-from-prayer http://www.opposingviews.com/arguments/feelings-are-not-proof-of-intervention The best evidence for healing prayer comes from personal experience. There are millions of stories in which people attribute a healing effect to prayer. Many people have gotten deathly ill and asked a god, spirit, or angel to intervene in the... Robert T. Carroll, PhD Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:47:24 -0600 http://www.opposingviews.com/arguments/feelings-are-not-proof-of-intervention