OT: A Problem with "the power of prayer"

I saw some deal on the supernatural on TeeVee yesterday or so, and they
were talking about "the power of prayer", and they claimed that they had
done an experiment that had proved that it "works". The experiment had
a couple of sets of Petri dishes with bacterial cultures in them, and
one set of dishes had some group praying over them, and the other set
didn't. They didn't say if there were people just sitting there or not;
that might make a difference. Anyway, they said that the dishes that
had been prayed over had statistically greater bacteria growth.

This, of course, raises a dilemma when praying for a patient with some
bacterial infection - which organism "wins"? ;-)

Or cancer cells?

Cheers!
Rich

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